1.5 Formal CPD Points
Please note that this course will require approx 2-3 hours of offline work to be recorded as informal CPD points.
Course Breakdown
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Profitable Financials
- Access Milestone's Coaching Help Area
- Welcome & Intro
- How to Read a P&L Report
- How to Price Your Products Correctly
- Discover How Your Cashflow Really Works
- Let's Work Out Your Break-Even Figure
- How to Budget Sales
- BONUS: How to find the right Accountant
- Pop Quiz
Learning Outcomes
Delivering outcomes from the National Standard of Competency for Architects. Category: Practice Management 9.1 & 9.2
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Understand how to read and interpret your P&L (Profit and Loss) reports
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Identify and understand your GP (Gross Profit) margins to price your projects profitably
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Outline why small changes to your operational expenses make a big impact on your profits
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Identify what your exact break even figure is for the month and the year (ie, how much money you need to make just to cover your costs)
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Have a practical financial resource personalised to you that you can use regularly for continued profitability referencing
Instructor
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Founder & Business Coach
Alison Billaud
Alison started as a business coach in 2005 as the first female and youngest coach in the industry. Her experience extends across every industry from hospitality, building, professional services, adventure tourism, law firms, cleaners, fashion designers, photographers and many more. Each of her clients are passionate about the work they do but prior to coaching, were not so confident on the business operations side. Alison teaches each small business owner the practical elements of business such as: how to run their finances, systems, sales funnels, time management, planning and goal setting, staff growth and more. These business skills are the same across every industry. She is passionate about seeing small businesses become consistently profitable and operationally efficient. Since 2005, (with a few years off having children) business coaching clients face to face she launched ‘The Milestone Academy’ in 2018 that brings her quality and authentic coaching onto an affordable and accessible online platform. Prior to coaching, Alison co-owned a successful retail surf shop at Sydney Airport where she met her husband who runs a local shop fitting and carpentry business. They live in Sydney, Australia with their 3 beautiful children.
Course Reviews
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Informative and easy to digest
Peter Ahern
Loved the approachable, broken down way of viewing finances; particularly the concept of minor adjustments yielding potentially significant results.
Loved the approachable, broken down way of viewing finances; particularly the concept of minor adjustments yielding potentially significant results.
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National Standard of Competency for Architects
Practice Management 9.1 & 9.2
9.1 Knowledge and implementation of appropriate practice model to ensure efficient, effective professional service.
9.2 Knowledge and application of practice resources to ensure efficient and effective professional service.
