📅 2024-12-21 — Session: Comprehensive Financial Analysis and Strategy Development

🕒 00:00–21:30
🏷️ Labels: Financial_Analysis, Business_Metrics, Google_Sheets, Financial_Strategy, Family_Business
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to conduct a thorough financial analysis of a business, focusing on liquidity, profitability, debt management, and savings, and to develop strategic recommendations for improvement.

Key Activities

  • Conducted detailed financial analysis over several years, focusing on key metrics such as liquidity, profitability, debt, and savings.
  • Developed Google Sheets formulas for classifying liquidity and other financial metrics.
  • Analyzed business structure, identifying key income sources, liabilities, and governance challenges.
  • Provided strategies for managing financial challenges in family businesses, focusing on income-burning traps and financial oversight.
  • Applied conditional formatting and advanced formulas in Google Sheets to enhance financial reporting and analysis.
  • Proposed a hierarchical structure for balance sheets and outlined key sections for monthly income statements.
  • Conducted comparative analysis of financial prospects with different savings rates.

Achievements

  • Completed a comprehensive financial analysis with actionable recommendations.
  • Developed and implemented Google Sheets formulas for financial metrics.
  • Established a structured approach to financial reporting and analysis, enhancing clarity and decision-making.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the proposed hierarchical structure for balance sheets in practice.
  • Further refine the monthly income statement template for broader application.
  • Monitor the implementation of strategies in family business financial management to assess effectiveness.