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Six reports, twenty minutes, once a month: cash collected, what's owed and how old it is, payroll cost, the VAT position, spend by category, and what's waiting for approval. What each one tells you and the question to ask of it.
Finance Operations and Controls
What the general ledger and trial balance are, how journal entries feed them, and what a trial balance that refuses to balance is really telling you. With a worked month for a Lagos business.
The Nigeria Tax Act 2025 changed PAYE from January 2026: a tax-free first ₦800,000, six new bands, rent relief in place of CRA. Here's how the calculation works, with a full worked example.
Bill every learner and sponsor each term, handle siblings, part-payments and scholarships, send statements parents understand and collect fees online, without one spreadsheet per class.
A five-step way to choose business software without being sold to: map how work really moves, separate must-haves from nice-to-haves, test with your own data, check Nigerian tax fit, and count the full cost.
Put a payment link on every invoice, let customers pay by card or bank transfer, and have each payment matched to its invoice. A practical guide, including fees and short payments.
Finance Operations and Controls
Who raises, who reviews, and when a final approval is needed. Five decisions that give you an invoice approval process which catches errors without slowing billing down.
Most late payments aren't refusals. They're invoices that were wrong, unclear, lost or hard to pay. A practical sequence for getting paid on time and keeping the customer, from terms to reminders to the awkward call.
What a Nigerian invoice needs to show, from TINs and VAT at 7.5% to payment terms, with a worked example, a printable checklist and the mistakes that delay payment.
Your invoice is often the most-read document you send. How logo, colour, layout and the address it comes from shape whether customers trust it, read it and pay it.
Why invoice numbers must be unique and sequential, which formats work for one company or a group, how to handle voids and credit notes, and how to change systems without breaking the run.
If someone rebuilds the same management report every Monday, the problem isn't the report. How to get the numbers an MD needs from records your team already keeps, and which six figures matter most.
