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Action Plan: Using Economic Forecasts

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Turning Assets into Cash

Your largest current assets, against which you might borrow, are probably receivables and inventory. Ideally, both of these assets turn into cash as soon ...  Read more

Debt Management and Banking: Establish a Contingency Plan

Show your creditors that you can handle a cash crunch with a plan for managing crises.  Read more

Establishing Credit Limits

There is no precise method of allocating credit. However, a simple policy that works well is to allocate customers to one of the four categories of credit...  Read more

Collection Techniques to Avoid

Past-due accounts present a number of problems, one of which is how to collect them. When faced with this uncomfortable issue, avoid using these collectio...  Read more

Action Plan: Debt Management and Banking

Debt management and cash flow management are inseparable. A poorly managed cash flow will eventually surface as a depletion of working capital. If working...  Read more

Action Plan: Forecasting and Cash-Flow Budgeting

Your cash flow budget is the most important financial statement that you have. Done correctly, it provides your business with the necessary checks, balanc...  Read more

Filling In Your Plan: What to Say Where

Here is a brief overview of the contents of the written plan. Keep in mind that after the first two items, the titles of thesubsequent sections can vary. ...  Read more

Choosing Accounting Software

Here's what you need to consider when choosing accounting software: Auditing features. These might include a map mode, an...  Read more

The Finer Points of a Business Plan

Here is a brief overview of the contents of the written plan. Keep in mind that after the first two items, the titles of the subsequent sections can vary....  Read more

Turning a Great Idea into a Practical Business

You have a terrific idea for a new business. But before rushing ahead to implement it, consider the following: Have you seen the idea...  Read more

All Summary, No Substance

The executive summary below is actually an altered and disguised version of a real executive summary. But it remains as badly done in this state as it was...  Read more

Key Questions to Ask a Prospective CPA

The worst way to find a CPA is to "call one up and hire him" sight unseen, believes Irving L. Blackman, a frequently published CPA and senior partner in B...  Read more

A Plan for All Seasons

In Chapter 1 of the book How to Really Create a Successful Business Plan, author David E. Gumpert suggests that a carefully crafted business plan...  Read more

Putting Your Business Idea to the Test

When entrepreneurs ask me about the potential of an idea for a new business, I invariably ask some probing questions. I am trying to determine the followi...  Read more

Get More Out of Your Cash

The more you can squeeze out of your cash, the better off you are. That is true, but only to a point. Your efforts to get more out of your cash must be ba...  Read more

Protecting Your Intellectual Property the Affordable Way

The matter of legally protecting your intellectual property can get quite complex -- and expensive. You likely don't want to spend endless hours sorting t...  Read more

Planning for Chaos in a Start-Up

No matter how hard you try to prepare, unexpected problems will erupt in your new start-up. In this excerpt from How to Really Start Your Own Business...  Read more

Where to Start for Business Plan Smarts

Anatomy of a Business Plan, 4th edition, by Linda Pinson and Jerry Jinnett (Dearborn, 1999) The first edition of Linda Pinson and Jerry J...  Read more

Keeping a Start-Up Simple

Once you're ready to launch, how can you make sure you start out on the right foot? In this excerpt from How to Really Start Your Own Business, e...  Read more

Venture Capitalists Don't Relish Risk

Probably the key fact for entrepreneurs to remember about venture capital firms is that their names are misleading. Though the term venture capitalRead more

The Basics of Business Plans: Sell, Sell, Sell

You've probably heard all the academic and formal definitions of a business plan--something to the effect that it's a document describing your company's g...  Read more

Executive Summary as a Guiding Light

A good executive summary is hard to write. It should present your entire business plan in miniature.  Read more