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Accounting Problems Case Study – Very Small Furniture Sales and Manufacturing Company

He finally had to close his doors, not because of the economy, but rather due to the accounting and management issues. Specifically, he had over a long period of time built up his business from scratch. He made furniture as works of art, beautiful stuff and had developed quite a reputation for himself. In fact, he did not even have a showroom, he simply set up on the main road outside of town and folks stopped by to purchase his hand made furniture and told their friends.

Eventually, the city expanded and then disallowed road-side sales, so he went and got a retail space in the old revitalized section of town. Unfortunately, he was selling so much furniture that he could not be in the showroom all the time, rather, he had to be in the workshop, something that only he could do, due to the artistic talent needed.

The center in “old town” was very nice, but expensive and he had to sell more and more to pay for the triple-net lease, and things were moving well, but that meant he was forced to produce more and more inventory, but this meant he could never be one with his customer as before. He hired a sales staff to work the stores mandatory hours; 10AM to 7PM, as per his lease agreement.

He had trouble finding the right people and they often sold the furniture too cheap or failed to give customers cash receipts. He eventually had to close the store, even though it was making money, even though he had so much demand he could hardly keep up. All due to cash flow, management and mostly due to accounting problems, unable to see where he was; he had no snap-shot of his financial situation. Thus, he could not get a loan, move his business to the next step or capitalize on all the goodwill, he had created over the years. Think on this.