Working out the numbers, with or without us
Simple guides to the sums a Nigerian business needs. You can do every one of them on paper, or let Maaz Buk do them for you.
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- How to work out what a crate of eggs costs you to produceFeed is the easy part. Whether ₦3,200 a crate is a profit depends on the costs nobody writes down: the birds that died, the diesel, the trip to the market. This guide puts the whole sum on one page.
- How to set a credit limit you will actually keepMost businesses here sell on credit, but few decide how much is too much, so the limit gets broken by the customer who is hardest to refuse. Three ways to choose a number, and how to stick to it without losing the customer.
- Landed cost: why the invoice price is never what the goods cost youThe supplier's invoice is only the start. Transport, clearing, loading and offloading all belong in the cost of the goods, and leaving them out makes every margin look better than it is.
- What records the Nigeria Tax Act says your business must keepFrom January 2026 small companies pay 0% company income tax, but every business still has to keep records, and for six years. What the law asks for, in plain words.
- How to add a product, bring in stock, set a price and record a saleYour first ten minutes in Maaz Buk, step by step: one product, the stock you already have, a selling price, and your first sale.
- What “first to expire, first to sell” saves a provisions shop in a year · Turnover is not profit, and the gap is usually bigger than you think
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