Chapter 12
Building the Perfect Budget
In This Chapter
Checking out powerful tips for business budgets
Setting up and adjusting a budget
Forecasting your profits and losses
Projecting your cash flows
Reviewing QuickBooks Planning & Budgeting tools
I don’t think that a budget amounts to financial handcuffs, and neither should you. After all, a budget is just a plan that outlines how you intend to generate sales, how you should spend your money, and your ideas about how you can best organize your firm’s financial affairs.
Is This a Game You Want to Play?
If you created a good, workable Chart of Accounts, as briefly discussed in Chapter 2, you’re halfway to a good, solid budget. (In fact, for 99 out of 100 businesses, the only step left is to specify how much you earn in each income account and how much you spend in each expense account.)
Does every business need a budget? No, of course not. Maybe you have a simple financial plan that you can monitor some other way. Maybe in your business, ...
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