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Your bookkeeping is no longer a dusty spreadsheet you revisit at year end. With Making Tax Digital and tighter margins, the numbers behind your dentistry decide how calm you feel about tax, how confident a lender feels about backing you, and how attractive your practice looks to a future buyer.
We sit down with Darren Nicholson from Azets to map out what “good management information” looks like at each stage of a dental career. We start with associates and the practical realities of quarterly reporting, then move into what changes the moment you become a principal: monthly management accounts, clean categorisation, and a simple rhythm that turns compliance into control. We talk about forecasting your tax bill 12 to 18 months ahead, so 31 January stops being a panic and becomes a plan.
From there, we get specific about dental practice KPIs and benchmarking. We discuss turnover against target, direct costs like materials and labs, staff costs, marketing effectiveness, EBITDA, and why context matters when you’re trying to judge whether your numbers are “normal”. We also cover how practice management software can link into Xero or QuickBooks for better drill-down, including income by chair and utilisation gaps, plus the common set-up mistakes that make reports misleading.
If you want stronger cash flow, better tax planning, and lender-ready reporting that supports growth or an eventual exit, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a practice owner friend, and leave a review with the one KPI you want to get under control next.
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