Capacity Planning: When Revenue Growth Requires Additional Staff
A practical guide to capacity planning, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Cash Flow, Forecasting & Financial Planning
Cash flow, forecasting and planning for owners: weekly cash dashboards, break-even analysis, debt-service coverage, backlog reporting, capacity and hiring decisions, capital spending and seasonal reserves. Start with cash flow forecasting and financial planning.
Build vs. Buy Decisions: A Financial Model for Small Businesses
A practical guide to build versus buy finance, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Budgeting vs. Forecasting: Why Growing Businesses Need Both
A practical guide to budgeting versus forecasting, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Modeling a Business Debt Refinance Before Signing New Terms
A practical guide to business debt refinance modeling, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Debt-Service Coverage: What Lenders and Owners Should Monitor
A practical guide to debt-service coverage, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Cash-Flow Forecasting for Professional-Service Firms
A practical guide to cash-flow forecasting for professional-service firms, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Evaluating a Price Increase With Contribution-Margin Analysis
A practical guide to price increase contribution margin analysis, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Break-Even Analysis: Turning Fixed and Variable Costs Into Decisions
A practical guide to break-even analysis, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Backlog Reporting: Turning Signed Work Into a Revenue Forecast
A practical guide to backlog revenue forecasting, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Financial Records Lenders Commonly Request From Small Businesses
A practical guide to small business loan financial records, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Cash-Flow Forecasting for Small Businesses: Choosing a Horizon and Review Process
Use a small business cash flow forecasting framework to choose a horizon, set assumptions, review variances, and decide when outside support helps.
Building a Business Tax Reserve Into Your Cash-Flow Forecast
A practical guide to business tax reserve forecast, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
Building a 13-Week Cash-Flow Forecast for a Small Business
Build a 13-week cash flow forecast with weekly receipts, payments, scenarios, variance review, and a practical small-business template.
A Weekly Cash Dashboard for Owner-Managed Businesses
A practical guide to weekly cash dashboard, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.
A Practical Owner Dashboard: Financial KPIs Worth Reviewing Monthly
A practical guide to monthly financial KPI dashboard, covering the records, reporting questions, deadlines, and decision points business owners should review with a CPA.