business finance
Prompts tagged with "business finance"
Write an Investor or Lender Update That Builds Confidence
Writes the periodic update in a consistent shape, leads with the state of the business, puts the bad news early with a response attached, and weigh...
Build the Case for a Big Purchase or Investment
Evaluates a capital decision on three-year total cost, payback under realistic downside, and the single assumption that breaks the case — including...
Decide How to Fund a Gap or a Growth Push
Checks whether you have a timing problem or a profitability problem, compares every realistic funding option on true annualized cost and downside, ...
Choose the Few Numbers You Check Every Week
Picks five to seven numbers worth watching weekly, each with a calculation, a trigger threshold, and the way it can lie to you. Use it instead of b...
Build an Annual Budget and Run a Monthly Variance Review
Builds a driver-based monthly budget with a pre-agreed downside plan, then sets up the 30-minute monthly review that makes it worth having. Use it ...
Decide Whether You Can Afford to Hire
Prices a hire at fully loaded cost, sets the payback the role must produce, tests it against your cash position through the ramp period, and costs ...
Get Paid Faster by Fixing Your Accounts Receivable
Diagnoses why invoices go late, fixes the invoice itself, and builds a dated follow-up ladder with the messages written out. Use it when the busine...
Cut Costs Without Cutting Muscle
Ranks every cost-cutting candidate by saving-per-unit-of-damage across four tiers, then checks the savings against your actual deadline — because n...
Raise Your Prices Without Losing Your Best Customers
Plans a price increase around the break-even churn math, segments customers by how they'll react, drafts the announcement, and scripts the objectio...
Set a Price From Your Costs, Value, and Target Margin
Prices something from three anchors at once: the cost floor that protects your margin, what the alternatives charge, and what it's worth to the buy...
Find Out Which Products or Services Actually Make Money
Ranks your product or service lines by contribution margin, allocates overhead on a basis it justifies, and surfaces the hidden costs that change t...
Work Out Your Runway and How to Extend It
Calculates how many months of cash the business has under three scenarios, works backward to the date you must decide by, and ranks every extension...
Build a 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast
Builds the week-by-week cash forecast operators use when the bank balance matters more than the P&L, including the lowest cash week, the biggest sw...
Read Your Profit and Loss Statement Like an Owner
Turns a P&L into plain-language findings and decisions: where margin moved and why, which expenses are growing faster than revenue, and what the st...