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Using Data Visualisation for Business Intelligence
Data is essential for smart decisions in any business. To grow, your business must know: Who are your main customers?...
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Understand, Achieve and Maintain a Healthy Cash Flow
This is the final piece of our four-part series where we explored high-quality management reports, profit and loss statements and...
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What is a Balance Sheet and How To Use It
This is the third article of our four-part series. The previous two looked at high-quality management reports and profit and...
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How To Use Looker Studio to Create Insightful Business Performance Dashboards
The Creative CFO team recently hosted a Teach Learn Share (TLS) session on Looker Studio, a data visualisation tool. The...
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5 Best Business Intelligence (BI) Tools for Small Businesses
At Creative CFO, we work with a multitude of clients who vary in size, industry, and culture—but most of them...
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AI for financial professionals
Understanding what AI language models and RAG can do for financial professionals As a financial and technology professional and founder...
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Profit and Loss Statements: What Business Owners Need To Know
The Profit and Loss Statement (or P&L in accounting jargon) is arguably the central management statement for most SMEs. It...
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High-Quality Management Reports: Understanding the Basics
Management reports are essential for businesses that want to keep up with a changing, dynamic landscape. They give a useful...
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Why We Recommend Dext Precision to Enhance Financial Data Quality for SMMEs
What is Dext Precision? Dext Precision is a cloud-based software tool that plugs into Xero (or Quickbooks Online) and runs...
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What is the Creative CFO Focus Session?
How do we prioritise our time as professionals using focus sessions Focus sessions are an integral part of how we...
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7 Traits Of The World’s Best Finance Teams
Building the world’s best finance team for high-growth SMEs means bringing together a group of professionals who are more than...
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COIDA: What It Is and Why You Need to Register
COIDA stands for Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act. It is essentially an act that ensures no-fault compensation for...
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Business Intelligence: A South African SME’s Guide To Understanding Your Data
Traditionally, business intelligence tools were reserved for well-established businesses capable of affording such solutions. But Creative CFO believes that SMEs...
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Do you have a will?
Death is one of those inevitable life occurrences that affect everyone yet still catches one off guard. In the event...
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Creative CFO Launches New Investment Vehicle to Back High-Growth Small and Medium-Sized Business in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa Business advisory firm Creative CFO has recently launched Creative Growth Capital, its very own investment vehicle...
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European vs South African Valuations – A Triple Edged Sword
For South African business owners, the economic stability of Europe coupled with business-friendly legislation makes the continent a desirable place...
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Financial Modelling for Business Lift Off
When the ground starts to shake around Cape Canaveral, it is a matter of seconds before a rocket is launched...
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Financial Due Diligence in a post-Covid world
In the world today, a cautious sense of relief is beginning to take hold as vaccines are increasingly being rolled...
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Birkenstock’s Billions: Getting Comfortable with Business Valuations
In an office-based work environment, smart shoes are essential. However, as the recent pandemic has shifted meetings from board rooms...
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Understanding Key Performance Indicators
Key Performance Indicators do just what they say on the box; they indicate how well your business is performing in...
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How cloud accounting made me enjoy the finance industry again
This is a topic that is very close to my heart and I am sharing this everywhere I go. A...
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COVID 19: Working from home tax deduction
While the pandemic has forced many employees to work from home, you may be wondering if you now qualify for...
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Unlocking the secrets of becoming investment ready
Let’s say your business finds itself in a position where an investor has shown an interest in injecting cash into...
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NEW DESIGN – 2020 Tax Filing Season for Individuals
In response to COVID-19, SARS has re-designed the 2020 tax filing requirements for individuals. Some material changes have been made...
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Financing your Company’s Growth – Ask us how to take your business to the next level
So you’ve been thinking about growing your business and you’re full of ideas. But then you start to think about...
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How to have successful team catchups and run effective meetings, remotely
When working remotely one needs to put more effort and structure into coordinating teamwork, and ensuring each person can ask for...
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Tax and Debt Management
Drowning in tax debt? Don’t owe the South African Revenue Service (SARS) the tax liability they say you do? Perhaps...
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Are you Investment Ready?
Introduction For many business owners, their business is an accumulation of enormous efforts over a lengthy period of time: a...
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Equity Incentives – A game changer for SMEs
Whether you are a new startup trying to raise seed capital, determining how to allocate the company shareholding or looking...
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Create a cash flow friendly business
The term “Cash is King” rings true and is crucial for the survival of any business. Statistics have shown that 80%...
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How to Fund your Business and Unlock Growth
One of the main challenges for early-stage businesses in South Africa is access to funding. This is not as a...
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Manufacturing in Xero Part 3
Method 3 – Manual Manufacture at the time of Assembly (finished goods represented in inventory) The idea behind this approach...
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Manufacturing in Xero Part 2
Method 2 – The monthly manufacturing process (no finished goods are represented in inventory) The basic idea behind this approach...
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How To Manage Manufacturing Processes With Xero
In this first article of our three-part series on manufacturing in Xero, we dive into the fundamentals and key details...
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Systems Newsletter – Fixed Assets In Xero, DEAR Features And New Systems
This has been a month of new learnings and research for the Creative CFO systems team as we continue to explore...
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Systems Newsletter – Systems VAT Update
April has been a busy month so far, with the new South African VAT rate now in full swing. Here...
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South African Taxation Considerations of Virtual Currencies for Individuals
Background Cryptocurrency is a virtual or digital currency that can be digitally traded as a medium of exchange. Virtual currencies...
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Systems Newsletter – VEND/YOCO Integration
December was an exciting month in the space of integrations, and the new VEND-YOCO integration is making waves. There is now...
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