Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies

by Tage C. Tracy, John A. Tracy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470125083
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/30/2007
Series:	For Dummies Books
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	521,657
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

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