Building financial resilience into your business
Mr Bankruptcy
26th April 2022
Over the past couple of years, the financial resilience of many businesses will have been severely tested and with challenging times still ahead, it’s not too late to take a look at how you can build financial resilience into your organisation.
What is financial resilience?
Financial resilience is about the ability of a business to adapt to survive and recover from unpredictable events that can lead to financial problems.
The ability to weather such shocks is a good indication of long-term viability and success because the leadership of a resilient business is likely to be forward thinking and to have plans in place to mitigate the impact of a “shock to the financial system”.
Insolvencies are likely to rise in 2022 as businesses are now battling rising costs, so building long-term resilience has become more important than ever.
Key steps for building financial resilience
Unexpected events can, and do, happen at any time. While there are measures you can take right now to prepare your business for immediate problems, as we discussed in How to protect your business from financial difficulties, it’s never too late to begin thinking about the future.
Every business is unique, and each sector is more susceptible to some threats than others, so your resilience plan need to take this into account. But there are some common steps that all businesses can take to build long-term resilience:
- Identify risks. Not many of us would have considered a global pandemic as a risk until it happened. Taking the time to consider risks specific to your market or the global economy will highlight potential threats to your business and force you to face your vulnerabilities.
- Analyse the business impact. Understand how each of these risks could impact on your business so that you can prepare and mitigate against the effects.
- Understand your financial situation. Understand your cashflow, where your revenue comes from, debts etc. to ensure you maintain a good understanding of your financial situation and where it would feel the pressure most.
- Write a plan. Use the information from your risk analysis and understanding of your financial situation to create a plan of action. Understand how and when your plan would be implemented and inform the key people needed to make it work. Don’t forget to review your plan regularly in line with changes to your business and the market you work in.
- Balance growth with stability. Build for the future but don’t over stretch yourself and create risk by not being able to adapt to a reduction on revenue or increased costs.
We may not be able to escape financial surprises but financial resilience will help protect against worse case scenarios and ride them out.
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