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Entries for August, 2010

Creating A Sales Forecast

When you create a sales budget (aka sales projection or sales forecast) you are only completing a portion of the budgeting process. Generally, your sales should drive your expenses; however, on occasion you might base your sales projections on how much you need to sell to cover your expenses. The sales budget is the driver [...]

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Perception – A Reminder From A Kindergartner

For months I tried to convince one of my children that kindergarten was going to be fun. I told her that I enjoyed school when I was her age. Telling her that she was going to make new friends didn’t seem to help either since she is most definitely an introvert. I even enrolled her [...]

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Ethics or Lack Thereof

On CNN there are videos, articles, and blogs about ethics, specifically at Hewlett Packard. This story somewhat proves the argument that good ethics is good for business and bad ethics is bad for business. There has been a drop in the stock prices of HP since the debacle became public regarding their now ex-CEO Mark [...]

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