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[INTERVIEW] Michael Majeed, Finance Executive, SR&ED Tax Consultant

YoungUpstarts

What should business owners look for on their weekly or monthly balance sheets that might be red flags telling them to make changes in how their business practices? Michael Majeed: When projecting profits and losses, an entrepreneur needs to start with expenses, not revenues.

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SayAhh’s Revenue Projections

Feld Thoughts

While Jane was building SayAhh’s revenue projections , Dick focused his attention on building the expense side of the projections. Before building his projections, Dick needs to make three main decisions: Should he build a simple cash forecast or a set of projected financial statements? How should he account for unforeseen expenses?

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How Plan Vs Actual Comparison Helps You Manage Your Business

Up and Running

To put it simply, plan vs actual is just the active review and adjustment of financial forecasts based on your real-world financial results. The illustration below shows a view of the sales forecast for a bicycle store. She forecasts sales by forecasting units, the average price per unit, and sales as the product of unit times price.

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8 Reasons Having a Business Plan Is Important for Small Businesses

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You don’t need to write a 200-page document, but you will need something to hand to your banker or investor that shows that there’s a market for the problem your business solves and includes your key financial statements and forecasts. . The other two are your balance sheet and your income statement (P&L). . Measurable.

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8 Reasons Having a Business Plan Is Important for Small Businesses

Up and Running

You don’t need to write a 200-page document, but you will need something to hand to your banker or investor that shows that there’s a market for the problem your business solves and includes your key financial statements and forecasts. . The other two are your balance sheet and your income statement (P&L). . Measurable.

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How to Improve Cash Flow

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Forecast cash flow and manage that forecast carefully. You can get huge value from the process of regularly checking your cash flow to compare the actual results to your forecasts. You use the forecast and compare actual numbers to catch these significant trends early and make adjustments when necessary.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

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One of our Bplans writers described going into business in cannabis as a “ once-in-a-generation opportunity ,” with the product rapidly becoming legal for recreational as well as medical use in many states. In legal states, the markets have become so saturated that cannabis companies can end up with thousands of pounds of unsold product.