An income statement is your business’s bottom line: your total revenue from sales minus all of your costs. Financial data is always at the back of the business plan, but that doesn’t mean it’s any ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Micah is a Boston-based founder-strategist covering entrepreneurship Any business with goals needs a destination—the ultimate ...

While there are many different types of budgets, they all serve as a framework for how you will spend your future cash. Sometimes aspirational and sometimes rigid, budgets are often a work in progress ...