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Articles about Cash Flow Analysis and other critical topics for the Entrepreneur..
Cash Flow Analysis
Bootcamp -
Surviving a Cash Crisis
Predicting cash flow can make forecasting the weather
look easy by comparison...
10 Tips to Survive
a Cash Crisis
Take comfort from the knowledge that there are
very few small business owners who haven't been in your shoes at
some point...
Just in
time Capital - a survival technique for small business
The higher the cost of capital to the
entrepreneur, the bigger the payoff from using JIT Capital techniques...
Cash
Event Simulation
Doing it on a computer lets you try
different payment plans, and different collection strategies
quickly and efficiently - without upsetting your customers and
suppliers.
Surviving a
Cash Crisis using SurvivalWare Transition Planner
Surviving a Cash Crisis - Part II: There are four tabs of critical information you have to fill in
for SurvivalWare...
Transaction modeling
Transaction modeling is financial modeling at
the transaction level. Because transactions occur on specific
dates, the forecasted transactions can be tabulated into time
periods of any length – days, weeks, months, quarters, or years.
Weekly vs. monthly cash flow forecasting
One of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
I put up on the screen was “Days of Cash.” This is a measure of
how long you could last if cash flow completely dried up. The
feedback from the audience (joking, I assume) was “Can you show
minutes of cash?”
How
much cash do you have to work with?
It’s not always as simple as you think. But
it is something you should think about.
IRS
Withholding Penalties for FY2004
Borrowing from a Loan Shark is cheap in
comparison...
Financial Analysis, Projections, and Reporting
Breakeven Analysis
Breakeven analysis
answers the question, "what do I need in sales in order to break
even?" By breaking even, we mean not losing any money, but
also not making any money.
Collection
Period
Collection Period is a measure of how long it takes you to collect
your money after you make a sale. Its unit of measure is “Days”.
Know your cost of capital
Is cost of capital anything a small business needs to worry about?
After all, no one wants to lend you money, your stock is not publicly
traded, and potential investors tend to want control. So, what does
it matter?
Fast paced
Financial Analysis
Total time spent thinking about it: 45 minutes.
Time spent loading or manually crunching numbers: less than 2
minutes.
Days of Working Capital
If you had to settle on one measure to monitor
your company’s need for capital, this would have to be it.
The lower the figure, the less capital you need to grow. The
less capital you need to survive.
Financial Projections white paper
Doing financial projections provides enormous
value to business owners and managers. .. There are a number of
features to look for in a financial projection model..
Entrepreneur Life
"How to"
use Survivalware to look at the impact of college costs on the
family finances
If you are lucky enough for your child to be
accepted at a state college or university, just make sure it is
the same state you live in. We've experienced both, and find
that we like in-state tuition much better.
Entrepreneurship in America
About 6.2 in every 100 U.S. adults 18 years and
older are engaged in trying to start new firms.
My
Week in Paradise
We first started going to this cabin instead of
the beach to conserve cash. Even as the cash flowed more
freely, this was still our first choice..
Trip
to Holland
One of the advantages of being an entrepreneur is
that you get to indulge your interests. One of mine is
Holland to which I travel 2 to 4 times a year on business.
Here is a report from 2003..
Money and Happiness
The great thing about being an entrepreneur is that we can make the choices that lead to more happiness.
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