Month: April 2014

  • Time to Get those Figures in Order!

    It’s that time of year again, when those green forms from the Revenue appear in the letter box, and you promise yourself that this time next year it will be a different story. This time next year, you’ll have found a way of keeping track of your practice finances, so that you’re not facing a…

  • Not Earning Enough? Five Ways to Improve Your Bottom Line

    If you find that you don’t earn enough from your practice, if what you have left after paying expenses at the end of the day, week or month is insufficient, then you need to look at what you can do to improve the situation. There are a number of options available, and depending on your…

  • Help, Where Do I Start?

    Sometimes when we’re starting up in practice, or when we hit a difficult period, it can seem overwhelming, and we don’t know where to start. So many tasks seem to be calling out for our attention, and all of them seem to be equally important. How do we decide what to do? Sometimes when this…

  • 7 Tips to Manage Your Cash Flow

    Cash flow is the term used for the ins and outs of money in your practice. It’s important to manage it so that you don’t end up at the end of the month with no money to pay the rent, or put petrol in the car. Income in a therapy or counselling practice can be…

  • You Need a Plan!

    Do you have a plan for marketing your therapy or counselling practice? I’ve noticed talking to newly qualified therapists, that few have received training in relation to marketing or promoting their practice. As a result, many arrive at the end of the training process with no idea what to do next, or how to go…

  • In Case of Emergency

    In case of emergency… It’s the scenario we don’t want to think about, but it could happen to any of us in the morning. If you suddenly became ill or incapacitated, what would happen to your practice? Would your family and colleagues know what to do? During my career in the accountancy profession, on several…