More often, business owners tend to spend much of their time on daily running of the business and ignore the most important aspect of the business- understanding the money business has made and the money spent. We all know that our major goal of doing business is to make profits, so you need to know how to control costs, look at ways of increasing your sales to boost your profit margin.  So here are some of the tips to follow to make sure that your business keeps making profits. First and foremost try to determine your costs against the purchase. This will be done through knowing how much you have spent in availing the product or a service and the amount the customer is supposed to pay for the product. Make sure that you concentrate much at increasing the value the customer pays for a product or a service.Secondly, try as much possible to always buy things at a cheaper price as this will give you a bigger profit margin without probably charging high prices to cover your costs and expenses, as this would instead scare away customers and avoid that excuse to your customers that prices have gone up. In case you have a supplier, or people you buy from, try as much as possible to compare their prices with others to have the least price.Again, concentrate much on fast moving goods that cost less and demanded by customers on a daily basis. Such goods cost less but bring much profit into your business and in the process you increase your profit margin.More still, avoid unnecessary purchases, ensure that what you are buying is needed and it is the right time since such purchases may affect the needed cash flow by holding up most of your money. Try to always have time when to stock and with necessary products.The other that you can create miracles in your profits is the art to cooperate and partner with other businesses, make sure that other businesses may work as reference to your product or service, through for example always referring their customers to your business on products they would not have. For example partnering with a shop dealing in shoes would work for your clothing business.Moreover, keeping a budget for your business flows will help keep track of your expenses, costs against the profits, the budget helps you to overcome debts, plan and contain risks, emergencies and shows you where you need to adjust financially in your business. The budget can also help keep track of your Business expenditures; since late payment may attract penalties which of cause affect your profits. You need also to ensure that your collections are done in time so that it gives you time to keep track of your accounts, and more important is to keep a good record of your expenditures to avoid double payment on the same item.