Free self-check · indicative: Where is your business losing time? Eight questions.

We can see gross margin by product line or customer without rebuilding it in a spreadsheet.

How true is that today?

Management accounts are signed off within five working days of month-end.

How often does that actually happen?

A customer order is entered once and flows through to despatch and invoicing.

How true is that of your business?

The way we do things is written down, and a new starter could follow it.

How much of your operation is written down?

The systems we pay for are the systems we actually run the business on.

How often does a spreadsheet fill the gap instead?

Nobody in the business retypes information that another system already holds.

How true is that?

When someone asks a new question about the numbers, we can answer it the same day.

How often can you?

No single person can raise, approve and pay the same invoice.

How confident are you of that?