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Hawthorn Accountancy Management Accounts

Management accounts are the reports produced on a regular basis in order to monitor the financial performance of a business. It is very important for all businesses to produce and review these accounts, to track the financial progress of their business and to help them improve and plan for the future.

An experienced and focused Management Accountant can:

• Add a new dimension to your business, enabling you to develop the business confident that the financial controls and forecasts are in place to support that development.
• Maintain and report accurate cashflow forecasts.
• Develop costing systems to identify where your profit is generated.
• Prepare management accounts on a regularly - ideally monthly - and timely basis.

It is no use having the smartest set of management accounts if they are prepared three months late, leaving no time to react and improve your business against their indications. Hawthorn can help your business keep on top of its accounts.

Producing Useful Accounts

Each set of accounts, whether produced monthly, quarterly, or on another suitable timescale, should answer the following questions:

• What did we do last month?
• What did we say we would do last month?
• What are the differences, and how does that affect the future?
• Where can we improve?

In order to answer each of these questions there are a certain number of procedures that need to be in place:

• Period budgets - a set budget which has been put in place as a map to guide the business.
• A system for producing accounts on a regular and consistent basis.
• The will to delve into the figures and improve the company’s performance.

Contact Hawthorn Accountancy Today

Hawthorn Accountancy can assist your business in establishing these accounts, budgets and key performance indicators. Please contact us today to discuss how our companies can work together.