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Analyzing and managing the income statement is about making tons of little tweaks, all the time. Let's cover what goes into analyzing our financial statements and operating expenses to see if they accurately reflect all of the financial transactions we just inputted in our income statement.

Writing your first business plan? Be sure to review these four business plan examples from the Startups community that really stand out from the crowd.

Building solid financial statements starts with digging through all of the financial transactions in all of our accounts. In our example, we'll do this with a spreadsheet but you can use your accounting software to comb through your financial records and do the same thing.

When things are going well — getting funding, bringing in high revenue — everybody loves you. But when things go south, no one is around. Is there a way this can be avoided altogether?

There is danger in expecting too much from our Startup when we think we should get additional funding because the business is growing and it will merit us more opportunities. Reality check: things don't work this way.

Although rejection can leave us feeling hopeless, knowing that there is a positive side to it can give us hope. If we can agree that rejection sucks and is a part of life, we should also agree that there are ways to make rejection benefit us.

All startup financial projections are based on a few key assumptions about how we feel the business will perform. In this article, we're going to explain what key assumptions drive our financial forecasts and how to adjust them to create a financial model that works.

Early-stage startups are still building their financial models with assumptions, forecasting everything from sales revenue to marketing costs to a basic cash flow projection. We're going to explain exactly how to build financial projections for your startup even if you have no idea where to start!

You know what they say — better to start them young. Kids still have a pure mindset where they think they can do anything, and it’s important to nurture that.

Startup financial projections are built around making a series of educated guesses about how things might go. In order to better understand the assumptions that make up our financial statements, let's first understand how little we actually know!