Accrual Accounting vs. Cash Accounting – What’s the Difference?
The primary difference between these two is the timing of when transactions get recorded.
Tag: accounting
Protea Conversations: Suzanne Briel
Protea Financial was founded in 2014 to provide high-quality out-sourced accounting at an affordable price. Given Protea’s flexible work environment, the Company especially appealed to accountants who wanted to re-enter the workforce after taking time off to start a family. This allowed Protea to attract extremely talented individuals who were overlooked. Over 80% of both…
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Planning for Price Changes
It is common for small wineries to avoid raising their prices for an extended period of time. This is due to a variety of factors, including a lack of accounting input regarding price-volume trade-offs and management’s desire to preserve customer interest. Alternately, a winery may opt to make price changes based on a gut feeling….
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Accountant vs Bookkeeper
As wineries search for growth in today’s digital world, the accountant vs bookkeeper debate has become all the more relevant. Innovation, technology, and eCommerce have made traditional marketing strategies for wineries nearly obsolete. As RaboBank recently highlighted, only those wineries who respond to market changes with the needed urgency will thrive, and wine businesses that…
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The Importance of Product-Specific Costings
We have seen wineries set prices incorrectly (and not maximize profit), waste precious working capital on production on their less-profitable wines, and lose money on wines because they set marketing and programming budgets using a simple average cost, rather than a product-specific cost.
