Posts tagged Meaningful Numbers
What Can a Fractional CFO Actually Do for You?

A Fractional CFO is obviously there to support you in financial decisions and ensure that your accounting is clean and that your numbers make sense. But the real benefit of a Fractional CFO goes way beyond that to ease stress, improve profitability and support you when your business or the world hits a rough patch. Whether you are just getting started, look for financing or preparing to sell there are dozens of ways we can support you in reaching your goals.

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Black Farmer Fund and the Power of Social Impact Capital

Black Farmer Fund is on a mission to nurture Black community wealth & health by investing in black food and farm businesses in the Northeast. 

This is a relatively simple concept - raise money and make it accessible to business owners that have historically had little or no ability to get loans or investments to build their businesses. 

But when you break it down, BFF has a radical approach to deep structural issues within our Banking and Food Industries. 

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4 Surprising Benefits of Knowing your Numbers

Understanding your numbers is powerful. In this post, I share four surprising ways getting a handle on your small business finances could transform your business — and your life! With recent stories from our clients.

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How and WHY to Take Effective, Consistent Action in Your Business

As we’re nearing the end of a quarter, what is your top priority? How are you confidently making business decisions and moving forward into this last quarter of 2021 with that priority as your driving force?

Whatever your goal as an entrepreneur, taking action is the only way to make a change. Big results happen when you and your team are able to take effective, consistent action. Repeatedly. Over time…

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3 Steps to Craft a Flexible Financial Plan for Your Business

Business financial plans usually start with recent history and use a trend line to predict the future. For most companies, it's impossible to use 2020 revenue to predict reasonable sales or revenue growth for 2021. Still, when life and business are full of uncertainty; having a map of where you want to go and how you plan to get there is a critical tool.

So yes, in 2021, you can and should create a 12-month forecast to plot out a full year of what you think can or will happen. But, don’t treat it like a fixed business budget and try to make it 100% correct.

Instead, acknowledge something that has always been true:

Today’s forecast can’t fully predict next month’s challenges.

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