Using Excel to understand your business: why data management and analytics features are essential

Using Excel to understand your business: why data management and analytics features are essential

We’ve all heard of Microsoft Excel – king of the spreadsheet world, used by millions of people for day-to-day business operations. A lot of people don’t know just how much power Excel puts in the hands of its users. No matter what industry...
Setting Goals: What Makes or Break Them?

Setting Goals: What Makes or Break Them?

In a previous post we talked about how important it is to plan and keep taking risks in business. A big part of planning is goal setting; in fact, the two are so intimately linked, it’s impossible to really do one without the other. In our Small Business Management...
Financial Planning: What Costs are Depreciable or Not?

Financial Planning: What Costs are Depreciable or Not?

We’ve talked about financial planning in previous posts and in our last post specifically covered sales forecasting. In our Small Business Management Course, you will learn, in much greater detail, how to create a financial plan for your business, but we thought...
Sales Forecasting: When and What Can My Business Afford?

Sales Forecasting: When and What Can My Business Afford?

We’re publishing a series of posts about financial planning for small business and in our most recent post about ongoing capital purchases and running costs we mentioned creating a financial spreadsheet to track all of your expenses, which we’re going to talk about in...