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 ...

A business plan can be an effective planning tool for a company of any size. It can also be a document that helps to convince investors or lenders to provide funding to a business. One of the most ...

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 ...

When I was an early-stage founder, I bristled at the idea of making a five- or even three-year financial projection of my business. I can promise you one thing: It will be dramatically wrong. But as ...

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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