Documents related to 'capacity planning'
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Evaluating the finance functionIf you've been asked to justify the number of staff in your accounts department and want to understand how much value they're adding, you'll need to record the time spent by your team on the different finance functions and... Read more
02 Jan 2013
Overhead allocation calculatorIf your company charges by the hour or day, you need to include an element for overhead costs when you calculate the billable rates. What's the best way to allocate the overheads across your billable staff?three methodsTh... Read more
10 Dec 2012
Compensation claim letterIf HMRC makes a mistake or is responsible for an unreasonable delay in dealing with your tax affairs, you can claim compensention for costs you incur as a result and for any distress caused.Costs and compensationIf you have... Read more
16 Nov 2022
Staff time analysisIn a perfect world, sales and customer-facing staff would spend 100% of their work time generating revenue for your business. But this isn't possible in the real world. A costed snapshot of time spent on non-revenue generating acti... Read more
02 Jan 2013
Activity Based Costing exampleIf your company wants to rationalise its range of products and services, you need to work out which ones to keep and which to bin. Activity Based Costing can help you to do this.What's Activity Based Costing?You need to u... Read more
10 Dec 2012
Work in progress monitoring toolWhether your company manufactures goods or supplies services, work in progress (WIP) control is an important element of working capital management. Excess WIP costs money and in the worst cases can end up being unbilla... Read more
02 Jan 2013
Step cost calculatorWhether your business is expanding or struggling, identification and understanding of its step costs could help generate more profits.Extra costsA step cost is one that is relatively fixed within a certain range, outside of which ... Read more
02 Jan 2013
Business plan budget workbookFinancial planning for a new business is critical but it's often overlooked because the owners/directors can be overly engaged with trying to drive sales. So your involvement in building up a budget for the business plan ca... Read more
10 Dec 2012
Company solvency calculatorCompany directors should be alert to their potential personal liabilities for the offence of wrongful trading. So how do you tell if your company might be trading wrongfully, and thereby exposing the directors to risk. Cond... Read more
02 Jan 2013
Bid budget workbookBidding for projects can be a risky business, particularly when the price will be set in advance. Bidding at a price that does not include each element of the work to be carried out will result in lower than expected profits or eve... Read more
02 Jan 2013
