Small business owners relish the potential to earn a great deal of money running their enterprises. Budding entrepreneurs should be aware one positive thing. The wealth amassed from owning a small business isn’t contingent on earning massive profits each year. Consistently saving and investing profits — even modest ones — every year might build up the business’ value and the owner’s net worth significantly.
The Corporate Strategy
Often, what works for large corporations also works for small businesses. The approaches may be scaled down a little, but the overall strategies remain the same. One strategy involves taking profits and investing the money. This creates added valuation to the business while hedging against losses related to expenditures. The insurance industry presents an example of this strategy as interest on investments may offset payments on settled claims. A small business tracking its finances with a netsuite alternative could do the same thing.
Of course, a small business owner must be smart about choosing an investment strategy. By relying on safe investments, a small business owner might find his/her profits growing in a safe place.
Long-Term and Low-Risk
Putting a set percentage of revenue into aggressive, risky endeavors aren’t automatically bad ones. Long-term investments — even risky ones — might prove profitable. That said, would you really want to put a significant amount of business profits into risky vehicles? Lower-risk investments safeguards cash and allow the money to grow. A major corporation in dire need of building up capital could seek high-yield municipal bonds offer ing6% returns. These bonds, however, come with the looming risk of default. A treasury bond pays far less than 6%, but the odds of default aren’t exactly high.
Generally, long-term and low-risk investment strategies benefit the small business owner. Less risk has its rewards.
Diversify Assets
Certain approaches can undermine low-risk investments. For example, putting too much money into any single investment vehicle can turn low-risk investments into potentially higher-risk ones. Imagine if all of a business’ cash reserves were put into the stock market and the market crashed. For all intents and purposes, the business crashes with the market.
Savvy investors wouldn’t likely create a personal portfolio completely lacking in diversity. The same logical attitude frequently applies when investing a small business’ funds. Diversity the portfolio to reduce risk while allowing money to grow in different ways.
Match Approaches to Business and Investing
Matching business strategies and goals to your investment strategies and goals makes sense. That is, if you seek moderate growth in your business’ profits, think about seeking the same level of growth with the investments. It would be an odd strategy to try and grow a business carefully and then take the capital and put it into an aggressive growth venture known for occasionally serious losses. If you’re conservative with your business, then you likely would be more comfortable as an equally conservative investor.
Don’t Allow Trading Fees to Cut into Profits
In order to buy stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other assets, you must purchase from a broker. Brokers do need to make money for their services. Paying fees may be unavoidable, but you can cut down on the amount of money spent on trades. Before you sign up with any brokerage service, closely examine all the fees associated with the service. Seek out a reputable broker who provides reasonable fees that won’t cut into your initial buy too much.
Stay on Top of Taxes
Investments may come with tax obligations. Certain investments do fall under the category of nontaxable income, but this isn’t the case all the time. Taxes might need to be paid on dividends and capital gains. Keep all 1099s related to all investments because they will be needed at tax time. Failure to report any taxable income, even due to an honest omission, could lead to an audit or fines.
In short, be as careful with your investments as you are with your business. Make the two work together well contribute to improving your financial standing.
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