Joseph, Director at Wise Business Plans, has overseen 15K written business plans, raising over $1Bn in funding in more than 400 industries. As you create your financial projections for your business ...

You don’t need to be a CPA to understand your company’s financial health. You just need to know where to look. That starts with the income statement—also known as the profit and loss (P&L) ...

Start by looking at cash flow from operations, the section that tells you how much money the company’s main business is ...

Income statements detail revenue, expenses, and net income from top to bottom. Reading starts with revenue, deducts expenses, and ends with net income. Subtotal figures help identify missing account ...

A balance sheet displays what a company owns, what it owes, how it's financed, and its shareholders' equity at a particular point in time. An income statement displays the company's revenues and ...

The provision for income taxes on an income statement is the amount of income taxes a company estimates it will pay in a given year. The company's final tax bill may be slightly more or less than the ...