Financial Strategy: Money at the Grow Phase
A zone of Start to Exit: The Bizer Blueprint, where Money meets the Grow phase.
Financial Strategy is where money stops being a scoreboard and becomes a steering wheel. Your books are clean, so now you use them to decide where to go next.
What it takes
- Keep a dashboard of a few key metrics you check every month.
- Track your revenue growth rate and both gross and net margins over time.
- Forecast revenue and expenses, and build a 12-month cash-flow view.
- Analyze profitability by product or service, and plan where profit gets reinvested.
What it is worth
Twenty-five points toward the Grow band. Break-Even shows what a price change or a hire really needs. Next rung up: Financial Transferability.