Every small business owner should have a budget that lays out the future course of the company's activities. A budget shows where the sales will come from and how the money will be spent, with the ...

A good tool to ask the right questions. A company's planned budget at the beginning of the year will always end up being different from how the year actually plays out. It's just impossible to predict ...

Business owners and their managers use budgets as a roadmap for allocating their firms' resources. Most businesses use budgets with fixed estimates for revenues and expenses, by category or ...