Question: Name at least 5 things that you need
to evaluate a business performance evaluation?
Answer: Once your business is established and
running well the next step is actually review your progress &
performance evaluation.
So we should have a plan when it comes to measuring business
success.
Below are few methods of evaluating business performance.
- Business’s Financial
Statements & Key Variables: For measuring of a small
business, we need to see how much money it’s generating.
Money in terms of Inflow and Outflow
from business. This is not easy as for these we have to cover the
financial statements of the business. Below are the financial
statements
- Income Statement: Shows their profit and loss over a period of
time – Shows profitability of your business during a certain time
period
- Balance Sheet: Shows your business’s financial health,
measuring how much you owe and own
- Cash Flow: Shows how liquid cash is at your business.
These statements help in measure the business performance. With
these we can check the revenue, profitability, cash inflow, cash
outflow and calculate other variables if required
- Customer
Satisfaction: For every type of business
the most important element is “Customers or Clients”. Small
Business can measure performance through Customer Satisfaction.
This is key factor for long-term success.
- Employee Job
Satisfaction: Employees job satisfaction is internally an
important indicator for business success. This impact overall
performance through the ability of the company to offer high levels
of service to its customers.
- New
Customers: Increase in the new customers is the key
indicator of small business growth. In simple words New Customers
means more chances of revenue. So new customers count is any
important measure in evaluating business success.
- Competitor and
Market Analysis: Analysis market is any also important
factor in evaluating small business performance. In addition, we
should do competitor analysis. Sometimes, you need to know how the
market is doing in order to measure the success of your own
business. If you and your competitors aren’t doing well, it might
be because there is a lull in the market.