End of Year Small Business Tasks to Complete – Small Business Show 148
6 Dec 2017 · 32 min
This is a podcast episode titled "End of Year Small Business Tasks to Complete – Small Business Show 148" recorded on December 6, 2017. It features a conversation between hosts Dave Hamilton and Shannon Jean discussing practical financial and operational advice for small business owners as they approach the end of the year. Topics include managing inventory write-downs, accounts receivable, tax planning, employee bonuses, and the importance of working with accountants and financial planners. The episode also includes a sponsor message for Storyblocks and encourages listener feedback.
The Small business show, episode 148 for Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Greetings, folks, and welcome to the Small Business show here at BusinessShow Co the show by, for and about small business owners. Sponsors for this episode include storyblocks@storyblocks.com SBS where you can get their triple bundle for just 149 bucks. We'll tell you in a minute what that triple bundle will get you. Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.
And in Lafayette, California. Think about that for a minute. I'm Shannon Jean.
You know, when you have to think about where you are, that's not a bad thing, right? It means you're having fun traveling around.
Yeah, I am. That's you always, always moving around. I've been working on real estate stuff all day. So I had all these different locations in my head and that way I'm like, wait, okay, I'm not on this place. Not in Tahoe. I'm not on the Trinity River. I'm here. Although I'd like to be here. Those places.
I was just going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's cool. That's good. Well, you know, we're. We're coming up on the end of the year here. You know, we've only got a few more episodes. We wrap up 2017. We're at. This is episode one. Four, eight, eight. So that's pretty cool. We're gonna hit 150 before the end of the year. That's pretty awesome.
Yeah, that's right.
That's pretty cool. And you know, I was throwing around show ideas the other day and I thought we ought to talk about things you should be thinking about towards the end of the year for your small business. And if you'd like, we can kind of run down and chat about those.
I think that's a good thing to do. And as we were kind of prepping this just so that you fol. And we're actually going to have two conversations about this today. We're going to do exactly what Shannon just described and we're going to walk through sort of the general stuff that you need to do for your business, no matter what, no matter where you are in your business. But then in a couple of weeks, in fact, I think it will be episode 150. We're going to go ahead and talk about what to do if you. I have just started your business this year because there's a lot of things that you don't have to do, but a lot of things that you do. And so we'll do that too. So if this feels like it's a little overkill for you, have a listen anyway because it's going to set you up very nicely for show 150, which is coming well in two weeks.
Yeah, yeah, that's right. And there's a lot of the same things, but many different things that you need to do as a new business owner as well and make and some decisions. So I'm looking forward to having that discussion as well in a couple weeks.
Yeah.
You know, one of the first things that it comes to mind towards the end of the year is start to kind of, you know, get your act together, related to your financials and your, the paperwork, you know, your profit loss, your balance sheet and any cash flow reports. Because you want to start looking, I mean, your gut instinct. I've always thought, oh, I know, I kind of know how the, how things are going. Do we have a good, you know, day, a good week, a good month or good quarter. But you know, it's really the numbers on the paper that often prove me wrong. But you know, but you know, you start looking at things and you really need to, you know, you've got a few weeks left, you can make some decisions and some of the things we're going to talk about here in the next few minutes are going to be impacted by the, by your financials. So, you know, getting your profit loss statement put together for the year, how things are looking, you know, balance sheet and looking at cash flow, how the money's going, that's really important because without that information in front of you, you can't make some of the decisions. Like for example, if you're a business that has inventory and let's say you've had a really good year and you have some stale inventory that maybe is sitting on the books, I know everybody else is way better at buying inventory than me because I often had stale inventory, hadn't turned very much. So we were like, hey, if we had a great quarter or the year's great, we're showing lots of profits on the books. Maybe that's an opportunity to write off the value of some of that inventory. And you can't make that decision unless you know, Right. So if you run your P and L and you're like, wow, we didn't make any money this year, then you don't want to take, maybe you don't want to take off those write offs, right?
Yeah, because it's not going to help you.
Yeah, well, it can, you can report a loss, but you know, maybe you don't want to do that. Your bank hates that. Your partners hate that, your investors hate that. You might like it, because when you report your taxes and stuff, it can. It can have some. Obviously some benefit to you.
Yeah.
But you got to think you have to keep, you know, everybody happy. And so when I talk about, you know, writing that inventory, if you've had some stuff maybe on your books, on your shelves for a year or so, whatever, whatever, Your turn is 60 days, 90 days, if that's too long for you, and you've got these widgets, and you've got, you know, 500 of them, and each is valued at five bucks is 2,500 bucks. Maybe you want to drop the value to zero because you're not sure you're ever going to sell them. And you can do that.
So you can. So I've never run a business with inventory at that level. I mean, I've. I've had. Effectively. I've never run a business with inventory.
Sure.
And so I'm, I'm curious, like, if you were to do that and say you're writing these down from five bucks to zero. Like, does the IRS ever come and say, hey, well, as long as you've still.
So you can't. I mean, you're accounting for it. You can show it. Right. You're showing the history of it. Okay, I bought these items for five bucks, and towards the end of the year, I realized maybe I'm never going to sell them. And let's just. Just say, let's just keep it simple. You're showing a $5,000 profit at the end of the year, and you say, well, I don't want to pay taxes on that 5,000 bucks. I'm going to write these down to zero. And maybe you're going to scrap that or get rid of it or donate it or recycle it, because if it doesn't want to take up space on your shelf, so you say, okay, it's $2,500. You're going to enter that into your books. That's like a general journal entry.
Yeah, a ledger entry. Sure.
Right. A ledger entry. You can do it. A couple different ways of entries is great. And you're letting your accounting account know. So there's probably an account in there in, in your accounting software that you're hopefully using that shows those kinds of things, and it shows the history of it, and it's, It's. You can audit it.
Right. Okay. So. Right. So you've got to. If, if, if if the IRS does show up and say, hey, this, you know, show us. You show them and say, look, yep, I spent this money on this. They were here. And then if you decide to dispose of them or whatever, you. You keep records of that disposal or donation.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
And. And on the flip side, if on, you know, December 31st, you rewrite it down to zero, but then, you know, some white knight comes along on January 15th and buys all 500, well, then you're going to book those. It's 100% profit.
Right. So you can't take the. If they buy them for 10 bucks.
You made 10 bucks, you made 10.
You don't get to say, I wrote, you know, I only made five.
Because you can't have it both ways. Right? Yeah, yeah. So. So you take it. So it's planning.
But wait a minute. So the scenario you just described sounds like a potentially creative way to avoid taking a profit, even though maybe. Or it takes. It allows you to defer your profit to next year by writing it down to zero and then sort of essentially recapturing it all on 15 January when white knight rides in.
Yeah. It's usually not as clean as that.
Sure.
But of course, it's this time of year. You want to have that discussion with your accountant. A good accountant is going to say, hey, what's the year looking like? Are you making. Did you make a million bucks? Well, gee, do you want to pay, you know, 500 grand in taxes? Maybe there's some things we can do. Have you got any inventory that you don't think you're ever going to sell? And, you know, because inventory businesses are great, but over time, stuff doesn't. Not every. You're not going to hit a home run every time. Right. And your warehouse can. And your balance sheet can have inventory on it that really isn't worth what you think it is. And that can be a really bad problem in itself, especially if you go to, like, sell the business or you're trying to borrow money and, you know, you have to be careful how old your inventory is, all that kind of stuff. So a good accountant can guide you through it.
This is interesting because this is one of those scenarios that sort of reminds me of the concept that the IRS can't punish you for being a bad business person. If you buy stuff at five bucks and you write it down to zero because you couldn't sell it, that's legitimate. Also legitimate, but potentially gaining. More questions. Is you writing it down because you think you can never sell it and Then suddenly, three weeks later, hey, turns out I can. I mean, I suppose if you did that, if you made a pattern of that pattern.
Yep.
Then maybe you've got a problem. But.
Yeah, but go back and listen to the. Yeah, go back and listen to the IRS show we did earlier this year. And there's some tips in there because, yeah, you don't want to show those kinds of patterns.
Right.
And in the. Mainly you're just, you're really trying to take an honest look at your, your inventory. I mean, you know, we always carried, you know, millions of dollars worth of inventory.
Okay.
And there's bound to be stuff that you look at and go, wow, you know, let, let's. If we had a good quarter or good year, that's an opportunity to kind of patch up a mistake you may have made.
Right, right.
And totally great. Yeah. And, and maybe you'll, you'll make it up later. And if, if you get an opportunity to sell that product. So. Yeah, it works out pretty good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So as long as there's a, there's an honest path through it, then, yeah.
You got to have your advice, your accountant, because you cannot do it on your own. And they're going to typically point out things that are red flags, you know, if you ask them, want to do something. And if your accountant says yes, yes, yes, yes to everything, I would argue that that's just as bad as an accountant that says, no, no, no, no, no to everything. Right. You have to, what's the risk reward? And look, it's like, oh, yeah, yeah.
I always say you need to find an accountant that is a good complement to your own tolerance for risk. Sure. And I don't necessarily mean that you want an accountant that has exactly the same tolerance for risk. I would argue that if you, if you're like me and you're sort of a, you know, beg for forgiveness later type of person, you want an accountant that's a little more conservative than that.
I would agree.
On the flip side, if you're somebody that's just absolutely risk averse, well, maybe you shouldn't be in business for yourself anyway. But you know what? Actually, I've seen, I take that back. I've seen people that are horribly risk averse and do very well for themselves, but it's helpful to have someone on your team and your accountant can be that person that is less risk averse than you that can say, no, no, no, hey, wait, you know, I get why you're concerned about that, but no, I've done this this way before. There's nothing wrong with it. Yes. It's a different way of doing it. But, you know, let's take a look at this together. So. Yeah.
Yeah. I think a good, a good indicator of a good accountant is if you find yourself kind of going back and forth trying to convince one another to do things a certain way.
Yes.
Because you're trying to make the case. To do things a certain way and then they're trying to make the case. And typically, you know, you compromise a bit and come up with a package that, that serves you both, you know.
Yeah. That probably won't get you audited. Or if it does, you can have the conversation and it.
That's right.
Ends. That's right. Y. Yeah.
Yeah. So along with those, you know, your financial stuff and stuff, you want to start looking at like your accounts receivable. You know, if.
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Got it. So cool. So back to my accounts receivable. Yes, you know, people often owe you money, unfortunately, but now, you know, towards the end of the year can be a good time to start putting a little more pressure on them because companies, you know, that owe you money, if they have some money, they may want to expense some things before the end of the year. So maybe an extra phone call, an extra email, you know, and reminding them, you know, we've only got a few more weeks at the end of the year, if you want to get this on your books, we'd really like to get this, you know, this invoice paid.
That's a great. Can we pause the show for a second? I got somebody I got to call.
That's right. Yeah, it works. It really works. And on the flip side, if you don't get the response and you know, well, again, based on your financials that you did in step one, you want to take a write off for any of that accounts receivable as bad debt because you don't want to pay taxes on it. Right. And it's sitting there so you're like, well, let's go ahead this, these people owe us a thousand bucks. They're not going to pay us. You're going to put it into your bad debt account and it's going to help lower your taxable income as well. So.
Right.
Think about that.
And, and I've, I'm trying to think, I think I've done that where I've put things into bad debt and then, and then wound up getting some payment on it. And of course, then you have to, you got to bring that back. It's the same thing that you pull back up before.
Yeah, you got it.
Yeah.
And then on the flip side, if you've had a great year and maybe you don't have enough write offs for things and your cash flow is really strong, your profits are good, maybe there's some customers you have a good relationship with that you can ask them to defer paying you until after January 1st. It can be a great tax planning.
Strategy as long as you're on a cash basis. If you're on accruals, that doesn't matter. Now with bad debt, if you're on a cash basis, it doesn't matter. Right. Because you haven't booked the revenue yet.
Yeah, that's right. You're right.
Yeah, yeah. So, so these two things are mutually exclusive in that sense. Right. Because you've got to, if you're on a cash basis, then you don't get to write down bad debt unless you have expenses related to collecting on it or attempting to collect on it.
But. Right. Because you're not going to book it.
You'Re not going to. Right?
Yeah, yeah.
That's the difference between cash and accruals, folks. It's really, they. I've, I've talked with business owners that freak out and say, I don't understand accruals. The idea behind accruals is if you sell something today, you book the revenue when the sale happens, regardless of when payment comes in. And with cash, it's all about when the cash comes in. And.
Got it.
Depending on the size of your business, the IRS may tell you that you are an accruals based business. And it's difficult to go back right from accruals to cash. But going from cash to accruals, they're.
Usually very happy about that. Like all this stuff. Whenever we talk about accounting, financing, you.
Got to talk to your accountant.
You got to talk to your accountant. I mean, we've got, these are our experiences, some anecdotal stuff, but certainly want to reach out, say Hey, I heard these two yahoos on the radio or on the podcast talking. Do they know what they're talking about? And get some tips? Because as these things relate to your business, they're going to be unique in particular to your situation.
I will say this. If you acquire a business that is running on the cash method, you get to inherit that, and that can be a very wise way of preserving your ability to run as a cash business. I've known some people that have done that. Yeah. They've grown their business and then they acquire somebody who's running cash basis and they actually, you know, once they, once they own that other business, they do effectively a reverse merger and, and run their business.
Oh, yeah.
Inside of that. And now it's cash. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because running cash can be helpful. Like, like you said, you can start doing. You can start playing some of these games with, like you said, asking your clients maybe, hey, could you, you know that check you were gonna send me in December? Mind sending that in January? You know, that kind of thing? Yep.
Yeah. Sometimes they don't care.
Sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think it's also a good time of the year to start. You know, review your, your people, your team, you know, your HR stuff. Are you going to issue bonuses to everybody? How are you going to, Are you going to reward people if it's a good year or if it's been a bad year? Maybe you ought to sit down and work on a speech. You know, you're going to talk to people about why you're not doing bonuses and stuff. But, but most people start thinking towards the end of the year that, hey, maybe I'll get a little something extra in my paycheck. Or if it's been like gangbusters and everybody's working overtime, maybe they're thinking they're going to get a lot of something in their paycheck and you need to talk about it.
Yeah, it is. I make it a habit to talk about it openly every year, even when it's a. You know, and there have been some years where it's like, yeah, bonuses aren't going to happen this year. Hopefully, if you're, if you've been transparent enough with your employees, and perhaps that's a subject of a whole other episode. But, like, it's my goal that the, the news that I'm sharing in that conversation is not a surprise to people that if they stop, should not think. Right. I mean, they might not have stopped to think about it, but when I present it like, hey, you know, things have been going really well this year. We're going to be doing bonuses. They're going to come out on, you know, whatever day. Like, okay, great. But also, hey, you know, as you know, things haven't been going all that great this year.
We're going to.
We're not going to be doing bonuses. Like, that part of that conversation shouldn't be like, whoa, things aren't going what?
I didn't know.
No idea. That's.
Yeah, that's right.
That's bad.
Yeah. Yeah, I would agree. And, you know, you bring up a good, you know, a good question. When do you give those bonuses out? You know, do you wait until, you know, the end of the month, when, you know, end of the year? Or are you giving them out in early December? So, you know, people have a little extra scratch in their. Their bank account to help cover their, you know, their. Their Christmas stuff.
Yeah, I like to do it in the first two weeks of December.
I think it's a great idea.
Yeah. If. I mean, if you're going to do it. Yeah, that, that, that first two weeks of December is the. To me, that's the right time. Or I've really thought about, like, waiting until March to issue bonuses.
Yeah. The first year would be kind of rough, but after that.
Right, right. Well, but, you know, I, you know, I'm a drummer and another life here, and I played this actually many years in a row, played this company's holiday party, and they do it at the end of January, and that's when they talk about their numbers for the year, and that's when everybody gets their bonus checks and all of that stuff. It's like, you know, that's interesting because you're, you're done with the numbers for the year. You give people the full year to close out.
You have a more accurate picture, too, right?
You do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's true.
And that, that I talked to the CEO about it the, you know, the first year, I'm like, this is interesting, man. He's like, yeah. You know, I never understood. He's like, we're a sales organization. He's like, it doesn't make sense to essentially tell people, oh, congratulations on December 8th, you know, you got 22 more days to work, man.
Yeah, you could really hit some big numbers there. Right.
Yeah.
Or. Or not. Or so not.
Right. Yeah, that. That was sort of his thought was, you know, once you pay somebody, sometimes they stop. He's like, I like to dangle the carrot a little bit longer.
Yeah, that's True. It's interesting. That's a good point. Yeah, it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I think a, we've, we've talked about it on the show here before. We've, we've had a show about the, what the executive summary is or my, my definition of what an executive summary is. And you know, it's your narrative of how things are going with your business, not necessarily the minutia of your financial statements. But you know, how did a year go? How do, what is your gut telling you? You know, what were the major accomplishments your business made? What were some of the mistakes you made? You know, maybe what, what were some of the major expenditures? Did you buy new stuff? Did you buy a building, move a building, get a forklift, whatever it is you did? Took a trip. Great to talk about those. And I think a great week to do it is that week that it's really quiet between Christmas and New Year's.
We keep the show clean. So I can't say to you what I want to say to you, but being that I have to go to CES right after New Year's every year, that week is not a quiet week.
For some of us. For some of us.
No, you're right about that. For me, it's actually the, the, not the week right after CES because there's a lot of follow up and all that, but the following week is generally dead for us. Like that third week of January I can disappear and actually the last couple of years I have and like no one would know.
That's cool.
But yeah, but yeah, you find that week. That's right. Yeah.
Yeah. And just, you know, jot this stuff down because what's going to happen is, you know, if you' an LLC or a C or an S corp, you know, you need to keep annual minutes. And what I find is the executive summary really can be the framework for those minutes and you know, your notes and all this stuff, you really need to keep those, you know, and have an annual meeting. Even if it's just you and your partner, even if you just go to lunch, you're going to document that you had this annual meeting and your executive summary could, you know, come may, just may encompass your entire minutes of, you know, your, your meeting and how things went. You could read it, that kind of stuff. And it, it may seem trivial, but it can help you tremendously in the future if you have any legal issues or you're like getting audited, that kind of stuff. Those, those things show that you are legitimate. You're running a real business, it's not just your personal checking account that you're running stuff out of.
Right.
And it's important to do. So the executive summary can, can come in handy there as well.
Yeah. Oh, that's true. I never thought about the executive summary working, you know, from, from that standpoint. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I always enjoy talking about it. And then, you know, you show it to people and be like, oh, it didn't happen that way. I'm like, well, it's a story. I'm writing my story.
Yeah. I get to write whatever I want. Yeah, you want to write your own story, start your own business.
Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, tax wise stuff to kind of jump back a little bit. You know, if you had a great year, maybe you, maybe you've been putting out, buying some equipment, maybe you need a new company vehicle, you know, racks for your warehouse computers, whatever it is. But you know, if you can spend, if you have the money and you can spend that money before the end of the year for stuff you need, it can again help lower your, your revenue, your profits. Your profits and lower your taxable, you know, taxable income.
Yeah, yeah. This is the right time of year to do that kind of stuff to.
Be thinking about that, you know, and then.
Yeah. Do your employees, people on your team, do they need new, you know, a new iPad or whatever it is? You know, this is the right time of year to be thinking about that. Once you have a picture of what your P. Ls are likely to look like by the end of the month. Right. And if you're already running at a loss, well, maybe you wait till, maybe not.
Yeah, we're gonna hold off and do it. We have better, better cash flow, you.
Know, but yeah, having that, that picture. I know you say this all the time, but looking regularly at your P. I mean, I look at the bank account every day, but looking regularly at your P. Ls like no less than once a month.
Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure.
You know, I mean, certainly that. But I, you know, it's not that like, it's not like it was, you know, 40 years ago where you had to have somebody pull that report for you.
That's right.
It's a five second thing. And you.
Yeah, as long as the data is current and the data you're putting in is good, good data. Because if it's garbage in, it's garbage out.
Right, right.
Of course, if you're getting that data and you have some, you know, whatever sales and CRM software you're using and doing some imports into accounting or your accounting software or maybe you're doing it all in QuickBooks or something. You want to be looking at that stuff because that can guide you with.
These types of decisions.
Yeah, all these different kinds of decisions, you know, and help you like, you know, this time of year if you have retirement accounts either for just yourself as a business owner and, or your employees, if you have a 401k or some sort of profit sharing, you know, now you want to look at that, you want to meet with your accountant, what, here's what the year looks like. What do you think we can afford to do? Here's our cash flow and as well, just for yourself, you know, meet with your financial planner and you know, how's the business going, you know, what's going on and what do you think is going to be like next year? You know, if you've got, you know, maybe you had some big revenue event and if you get help from those folks, they can not only help you minimize that tax liability, you, you can use your, that, that revenue you made in very creative ways to reward your employees. That can also benefit you. Yeah, there's a tremendous amount of incentive for you to reward your employees according to the government. Right. And in the more you share with them, the more opportunity you have to share or keep more for yourself either on a tax deferred and in some cases in a tax free basis. And you definitely want, you know, in your financial planner they can help refer you to somebody that can, you know, I hate to use the word pension, but that's, you know, it's a profit sharing type of thing and there's some really great ways to, to benefit from that for everyone. And that's, hopefully that's what you're looking for, you know, to benefit your employees lives as well as yourself and reward everybody.
That's right. Don't just give everybody a bitcoin. Although.
Yeah, that's.
Well, well, that's right.
That's it. You got it. You know, and then finally you got to just relax. I think this time of year, you know, you gotta try to enjoy yourself. You gotta, you know, take some time off if you can. Maybe it's that week before, you know, I know that's a bad week for you, Dave, but it's not that bad.
I joke about it. It's, it's. Yeah, I get plenty of time with my family. Yeah, yeah, it's all good.
And you know, take some time off. You know, we'll be going up to Tahoe for that week in between the year and just get to reflect and realize, you know, what a charmed life you are living. And you know, like we always say here on the Small business show, you may not have freedom as a small business owner, but what you have, hopefully is flexibility. And there's so many different ways you can increase the quality, improve the quality of your life with your small business. It's really important to think about that.
It's true. It's true. If you've got any good ideas. Yeah. Share them with us. Feedbackusshow.
Co. We'd love to hear them.
Yeah.
Awesome. Do we have some good guests coming on next week, right, Dave?
I think so. Yeah. I think it should be a fun one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting folks.
In a couple weeks we'll come. Go ahead.
No, I was gonna say we'll leave it a surprise.
Yes. Always.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You got it. Yeah. And then couple weeks we'll talk about, you know, as a, as a brand new business owner, what you ought to be looking at for end of year. Little things that would help you out.
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