It’s clear that there has never been a year like 2020. I remember the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 as a terrible time for business, but even the Great Recession did not generate the large number of small business failures, the extensive unemployment, or the widespread disruption in everything from consumer goods supply to our daily commute-based work lives that the pandemic has caused. Shawn Gardner, a commercial banker at BNC Bank in Minneapolis, told me recently that the pandemic is going to have... [continue reading]

I recently read this article at The BluePrint. I like it because it nicely explains how a financial projection is done, and because it correctly points out that the most popular small business accounting packages like QuickBooks simply can’t help you do a financial projection. They’re just not made for that. This is the need that ProjectionSmart meets so nicely. The article explains that large companies have big finance staffs and expensive ERP programs that have everything they need to produce great ... [continue reading]


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~ Elizabeth, entrepreneur

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