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Business Financing

If you start a small business, don't plan to spend all your time and focus developing your products or services or providing customer service. Even if you decide to hand off the financial matters to a trusted employee or outside consultant, you would be wise to learn the basics of what it takes to finance and pay for the operation and to stay in touch with the financial matters.

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Using Cash Flow Forecasting When Things Get Tough

When times are tough for a business, no better management tool exists than a cash flow forecast.

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What You Must Do to Establish Business Credit

Sam Thacker, a finance expert with Business Finance Solutions, tells you how to investigate your own credit history and then start establishing credit in your company's name.

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The Challenges of Starting a Business from Nothing

Financial expert Doug Newhouse discusses the challenges of starting a new company.

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Fixing the Fixed Costs and Breaking Breakeven

What's important for a break-even analysis is the division between the so-called "burn rate" fixed costs and the variable costs that change according to sales level.