Step-by-step guides for owners and managers
Longer guides you can work through with a notebook or a spreadsheet open. Each one takes a single job, from counting stock to forecasting cash for the next eight weeks, and shows it with TSh examples.
4 guides · about 40 minutes of reading in all
All guides
Newest first. Every guide starts with a short answer, then walks through the steps in order.
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Profit and Loss Guide: How to Track Profit and Manage Business Expenses
Build a monthly profit and loss statement for a Tanzanian business: cost of goods sold, expense categories, margins, petty cash and a worked TSh example.
10 min read
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Cash Flow Guide for Tanzanian SMEs: Mobile Money, Madeni and Planning Ahead
Understand business cash flow in Tanzania: why profit is not cash, how to manage mobile money float and credit customers, plus a simple 8-week TSh forecast.
10 min read
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Stock Taking Guide: How to Count and Reconcile Stock in a Shop or Warehouse
How to plan and run a stock take in a Tanzanian shop or warehouse: cut-off, count teams, blind counts, recounts, variance checks in TSh and posting adjustments.
10 min read
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How to Choose ERP Software: A Step-by-Step Checklist With a Scoring Table
A ten-step method for choosing ERP software in Tanzania, with a weighted scoring table you can print, test scripts for demos and a TSh budget worksheet.
10 min read
Shorter reads and comparisons
Blog articles by topic
Quick answers on POS, ERP, stock, accounting and customers.
- ERP4 articles
- POS3 articles
- Accounting1 article
- Inventory1 article
- CRM1 article
- Comparisons3 articles
- Industry guides4 articles
- Business growth1 article
Side-by-side comparisons
How SmartBiashara compares with other POS, ERP and accounting tools on price and features, with the sources we checked.
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