The Money Pump
This money pump represents the way you generate cash for your personal use. If you are an employee the outflow from the pump represents the cash generated for your employer from your efforts.
Your share is mostly represented as your wage. If the pump represents your business the outflow is the gross cash generated by the operations of the business.
Picturing Your Financial World
Identifying your financial assets and their relationships
One way to see your financial world and its many aspects is a “Playing Field Graphic.” This graphic shows all of the “players” in your financial world. “Players” are entities or activities that exist in your financial world. The “Players” tend to be accumulated but not necessarily planned.
Financial World “Playing Field Graphic”, a picture of your financial world
Your Financial World “Playing Field Graphic” is a pictorial representation of all of your financial assets in the form of players (entities and activities that make up your financial situation).
Understanding Risk Management
Risk management covers a wide range of business functions including; business legal entity selection and maintenance, insurable areas, safety management, financial accuracy and theft protection, employee actions, and more
Insurable risks of loss
The fact that your business is a limited liability entity helps manage risk to other assets but does not relieve you from certain legal insurance requirements. The following insurances represent the basic types of insurance required.
Business Help Resources
- Can You Use Independent Contractors?
- Doing Business in the 21st Century Electronic World
- How to Get Up and Running
- Notice to LLC Owners
- Ten Essential Business Functional Areas
- The Money Pump
- Understanding Risk Management
- What You Need to Know Before Starting a Business
- What You Need to Know When Your Business Needs Workers