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  • Segregate to conquer 🏆

    This article is part of the newsletter OpenBooks crafted by LiquidCFO and was originally posted in Substack. You can access the original content here. We hear many stories about CEOs that never paid themselves anything or have a 1-dollar annual salary. This can’t put the CEO in a more dangerous position with tax authorities and creditors.…

  • Show me the money đź’µ

    This article is part of the newsletter OpenBooks crafted by LiquidCFO and was originally posted in Substack. You can access the original content here. Let’s talk about the largest expense of (almost) every business: salaries. Compensation strategy is one of the things you need to think about early on – since getting this one wrong…

  • Are you really profitable?

    This article is part of the newsletter OpenBooks crafted by LiquidCFO and was originally posted in Substack. You can access the original content here. Not such an obvious answer in your financials. Let’s understand why…. A lot of startups and businesses hide behind the concept of economies of scale. This concept helps them justify short term losses…

  • Cash is (and will always be) king

    This article is part of the newsletter OpenBooks crafted by LiquidCFO and was originally posted in Substack. You can access the original content here. Cash is king. No surprise that cash management is also called treasury. A business with no profits but with cash in the bank should be fine – but a business with profit…

  • What is More Important for a Business: Revenue growth or Profitability?

    As the majority of responses in running a business, the answer is: “it depends”. Revenue growth is usually more relevant for companies that already have financial stability to fund its operations and is not facing challenges to meet its working capital needs (payment of suppliers, taxes, payroll, interest of loans, etc.). It could also be…

  • Business Lessons from Rihanna who Went from Bankrupt to Billionaire in a Decade

    Lately I have been paying attention to the booming creators economy and how digital influencers are building incredible scalable businesses around their personal brands. More than being a distribution channel, they are re-shaping how we think and behave as consumers – and Rihanna is definitively bringing it to another level of how far digital influencers…

  • Why Your Business Need a CFO – But Not in the Way You Thought

    Why your business need a CFO – but not in the way you thought.  Each entrepreneur is very unique, but they do share a few common personality traits. They like to get stuff done – and not every stuff, but the relevant (aka. revenue originating) ones. That would imply that things such as financial processes…