In order to get the attention of serious investors, it’s important to have realistic financial projections incorporated into your business plan. Projections can be a tricky business as you try to ...

You’re thinking about your company’s future. How much will sales grow next year? What will your revenue look like in five years? Or, if you’re just starting out, how long will it take for your ...

Financial forecasting gives you critical insights into your business and helps you project future sales and expenses. Let’s look at how you can create your financial projections in Microsoft Excel and ...

Planning and setting financial goals for the future is an annual exercise for most companies. Preparing meaningful and useful income statement projections can help companies allocate existing ...

We’ve all been told how important it is to have reasonable financial projections – but no one ever started a business because they liked playing in excel! If you’re ready to take the step but don’t ...

An investor who puts money into your business has the right to understand your company's financial potential to determine whether it is a worthy investment. The financial projections you include in a ...

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are increasingly being used as an alternate vehicle to traditional initial public offerings. Companies that go public through a traditional IPO process ...

For those of us without an inside source such as Clarence Beeks (bonus points for readers who immediately recognized the name as the fictional character in the movie Trading Places, who obtained the ...

Income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements. If you're running a business, you probably have some knowledge of basic financial statements and how to use them. But do you know why ...

What Is Cash Flow-Based Financial Planning? Cash flow and income are two terms often used interchangeably, yet they serve different functions in financial planning. Income represents the earnings a ...

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