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 ...

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When reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...

Effectively managing cash flow is one of the most critical skills business leaders must possess if they want their companies to grow profitably. A well-thought-out strategic plan doesn’t mean a thing ...

My SCORE colleagues and I mentor small businesses that are trying to figure out how to grow their business. One of the first discussion points becomes, what is your current cash flow like and what is ...

You might have heard that the biggest cause of business failures is cash flow issues, but to what extent is the severity of this widespread problem? To put things into perspective, more than 80% of ...

Traditional banks have begun offering businesses of all sizes a tech tool that fintechs had developed for small firms: cash-flow forecasting, or anticipation of how money will flow into and out of a ...

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