Financial performance

1. Does your accounting and financial reporting system meet all your information needs for decision-making? If not, what changes need to be made?
2. What is your financial cycle?
3. What is the pattern of income?
4. What is the pattern of expenditure?
5. How do you perform on your most important business ratios?
6. Are you making a reasonable profit? How does it compare to industry averages?
7. What changes show on your balance sheet?
8. How do you measure your value? (There are many ways of valuing a company and they all make assumptions.)
9. How do different product lines and business units perform? Which ones are strong and which are weak?
10. What long term trends can you see in your financial performance, especially in key business ratios?
11. How is the value of the organization tracking?
12. Where are your financial risks?

Links: The money pages | Managing finances | Company valuations (Links open new windows)