Small Bites Of Business Insights

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Podcast Series

About the series

Small Bites Of Business Insights provides valuable lessons that will help you improve your business practices.

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Kathy Gosser, PhD

Podcast Host

Kathy Gosser Faculty College of Business

Dr. Gosser originally joined the College of Business in 2019. Before joining UofL, Dr. Gosser spent 35 years at YUM! Brands. Her last role with the company was as Director of Learning & Organizational Development and the Chair of the KFC Foundation. She earned her PhD in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development from the University of Louisville, her MBA from UofL, and her BA in Journalism from Indiana University.

 

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Small Bites Podcast: Tips for better books

Entrepreneurs who have accurate financial data and a process for using it make better business decisions, giving them a competitive advantage. Barb Nuss shares tips for keeping accurate accounting records, and explores the importance of having reliable, timely data to manage by the numbers.

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Small Bites Podcast: Start with the end in mind

It’s never too early to envision how you will exit your business. Building entrepreneurial wealth happens quicker when you understand how a business is valued. Start with a timeline for growing sales and profits to yield the ROI of your dreams. Every new owner should hear about this aspect of start-up business planning.

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Small Bites Podcast: Race to profit

Every new business is in a race to profit. They MUST turn profitable before the cash runs out. How do you know you have enough start-up capital to win the race? Beyond the budget for initial equipment, build-out ,and marketing, you’ll need cash reserves. How much? How do you know? Listen in for winning insights.

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Small Bites Podcast: Income statements

Beyond sales and profit, the income statement (P&L or Profit and Loss) provides insights into productivity, expense management, pricing, labor costs, and more. Are you learning all you could be from your P&L? Listen for insights and financial review routines every business owner needs.

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Small Bites Podcast: Key performance indicators (KPI)

Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, measure the drivers of business success. Measure the drivers, manage the drivers, and the results will come. Barb and Kathy discuss metrics that enable owners to manage sales, productivity, marketing, gross profit margin, and more.

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Small Bites Podcast: Balance sheets

The balance sheet reveals business insights on cash flow, business efficiency, debt management, and business risk. These are the things bankers want to know to understand the risk of business failure. What should you look for in your balance sheet? Get the straight-forward answer here.

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Small Bites Podcast: Breaking even

Breakeven analysis sounds scary, but it isn’t. It is a simple formula you can use to set profitable sales goals and determine the sales needed to earn a return on your marketing, hiring, and expansion investments. Set your sales goals to yield your breakeven PLUS - because profit is not optional!

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Small Bites Podcast: Goal setting

Goal-driven entrepreneurs achieve more and do it quicker. Beyond sales targets, what goals keep you focused on the activities that drive business success, profitability, and cashflow? Hear insights on selecting activity goals for sales teams and business managers that every leader needs.

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Small Bites Podcast: Goals - keeping on track

Setting goals is easy, keeping on track to achieve those goals takes discipline. Hear what Kathy and Barb have to say about review routines that make a difference.

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Small Bites Podcast: Statements of cashflow

Congratulations! You’ve made a profit. So why don’t you have any cash? Barb explains the difference between profit and cash, and how the statement of cashflow demonstrates where the cash went.

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