Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies

If you’re a small business owner, managing the financial affairs of your business can seem like a daunting task—and it’s one that far too many people muddle through rather than seek help. Now, there’s a tool-packed guide designed to help you manage your finances and run your business successfully!

Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies explains step by step how to handle all your financial affairs, from preparing financial statements and managing cash flow to streamlining the accounting process, requesting bank loans, increasing profits, and much more. The bonus CD-ROM features handy reproducible forms, checklists, and templates—from a monthly expense summary to a cash flow statement—and provides how-to guidance that removes the guesswork in using each tool. You’ll discover how to:

• Plan a budget and forecast
• Streamline the accounting process
• Improve your profit and cash flow
• Make better decisions with a profit model
• Raise capital and request loans
• Invest company money wisely
• Keep your business solvent
• Choose your legal entity for income tax
• Avoid common management pitfalls
• Put a market value on your business

Complete with ten rules for small business survival and a financial glossary, Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies is the fun and easy way® to get your finances in order, perk up your profits, and thrive long term!

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Introduction 1

Part I: Improving Your Profit, Cash Flow, and Solvency 7

Chapter 1: Managing Your Small Business Finances 9

Chapter 2: Understanding Your P&L and Profit Performance 15

Chapter 3: Getting Up to Speed on Cash Flow from Profit 41

Chapter 4: Keeping Your Business Solvent 59

Part II: Using Tools of the Trade 79

Chapter 5: Protecting the Family Jewels 81

Chapter 6: Scrutinizing Your Costs 105

Chapter 7: Practical Budgeting Techniques for Your Business 127

Chapter 8: Making Decisions with a Profit Model 147

Part III: Dealing with Small Business Financial Issues 171

Chapter 9: Jumping Through Tax Hoops 173

Chapter 10: Raising Capital for Your Business 197

Chapter 11: Diagnosing Your Financial Condition 219

Part IV: Looking at Service and Manufacturing Businesses 243

Chapter 12: When You Sell Services 245

Chapter 13: When You Make the Products You Sell 259

Part V: Reaching the End of the Line 273

Chapter 14: Putting a Market Value on Your Business and Selling 275

Chapter 15: Hanging Up the Spikes and Terminating Your Business 297

Part VI: The Part of Tens 315

Chapter 16: Ten Management Rules for Small Business Survival 317

Chapter 17: Ten Hard-Core Financial Tools and Tactics 323

Appendix: About the CD 331

Index 337

"... aims to put all small business owners in a position where they understand how to manage the money in their organisation." (Bookworm73.wordpress.com, May 2011)

Tage C. Tracy, CPA, is the co-author, along with John Tracy, of How to Manage Profit and Cash Flow. John A. Tracy, CPA, is the author of Accounting For Dummies.

Perk up profits and protect your assets

The fun and easy way^® to manage your company's finances and remain solvent

Need to get a handle on the financials of your business? This hands-on guide has all the tools you need to manage your day-to-day affairs and grow your business, from preparing financial statements to improving cash flow. The CD features down-to-earth templates to help you run your business, along with step-by-step guidance.

all this on the bonus CD-ROM

Realistic, down-to-earth Excel-based templates that you can tailor-fit to your business.
Use the templates to analyze different scenarios so that you can make better decisions.
The templates provide many useful forms and formats for P&L and cash flow reports, and for many other financial statements and reports that are critical in managing your business.

For details and complete system requirements, see the CD-ROM appendix.

Discover how to:

Plan a budget and forecast
Streamline the accounting process
Raise capital and request loans
Invest company money wisely
Choose your legal entity
Avoid common management pitfalls

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