by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Nov 1, 2024 | Financial
In today’s podcast we break down the key steps to build (and implement) your brewery financial plan EVER. The financial plan is the road map. Where are you now? Where do you want to go? What does financial success look like? Listen to the podcast. Download the...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Oct 28, 2024 | Expense Reduction
How can you lower beer cost of goods, improve margins and become more efficient in your brewery? Here are 9 ideas: Benchmark COGS against industry averages (Resource: Agrowgate) Use group purchasing organizations, or GPOs (Resource: Independent Brewers Alliance)...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Oct 25, 2024 | IT and Software
Tom DeMayo is a partner with PKF O’Connor Davies, specializes in cybersecurity, and is a self-described ‘ethical hacker’. Cybercrime is a $10 trillion problem globally, and breweries are a target. In today’s podcast, Tom shares how these crimes...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Oct 20, 2024 | Expense Reduction
Here are the three questions that are most often asked about beer cost of goods sold: What’s included and excluded from beer COGS? Are my COGS correct? How can I find out? How do I improve COGS and lower costs? In a sentence or less, here are the answers to the...
by Kary@BeerBusinessFinance.com | Oct 14, 2024 | Financial
The quickest way to determine what goes into beer COGS is to ask this question: “Is this cost essential in the production and packaging of my beer?” If the answer is yes, it goes into cost of goods sold. Or, you could phrase the question differently....