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 ...

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"How do I manage my cash while focusing on all the other things I need to manage?" Our answer is simple. Create cash-flow projections, by the month, the quarter and the year. Business owners who know ...

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Before businesses were lucky enough to be able to create sales forecasts in Excel, business owners had to enter numbers on columnar pads and add the figures with a calculator. If a single number ...

Cash flow is the lifeblood of a business. It's the stream of money coming in and going out that keeps operations running, pays bills, and helps a company to grow. For small business owners and ...