By Barbara Nuss, CPA
Founder, Profit Soup
In our recent blog, Prepare for Profits – 2025, Part 1: Your Cost Structure May Never Be the Same, I shared my thoughts about how policy and economic changes might impact cost structures in 2025. I stressed the importance of monitoring your 5-Line P&L. This “Part 2” continuation lists 8 things you should do today to help fight the profit pinch in 2025.
1. Accelerate Equipment Purchases
If you have the financial capacity to act early on purchases you would make in 2025 anyway, you might consider stepping up now.
2. Forecast Your Cash Flow
Talk to your accountant about forecasting cash flow under multiple scenarios so you can plan to have adequate cash reserves or credit lines, Establish a cadence for comparing actual results to budgets by the 15th of each month.