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 ...

Budgeting is not an exact science: You can't predict with absolute precision the amount you will bring in or spend until it happens. However, comparing what you thought would occur with what actually ...