With more than 90 percent experiencing cash flow challenges, and over 80 percent of closures tied to cash flow ...

Running a small business feels like a thrilling ride: exciting, but risky. A 2025 LendingTree analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that 1 in 5 businesses don’t make it past the first year ...

To understand your business's financial health, you need numbers that give you a clear picture while guiding your next moves. But how do you choose which key performance indicators (KPIs) matter to ...

A financial plan is a comprehensive document that charts a business's monetary objectives and the strategies to achieve them. It encapsulates everything from budgeting and forecasting to investments ...

It’s no secret that small businesses have been through a lot this year, especially financially. The uncertainty around tariffs and how that will impact businesses long-term, coupled with the overall ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa Houston covers financial issues that affect women in business. There’s a telling statistic that QuickBooks reported on, ...

It usually starts with good intentions. A small business owner, stretched thin between sales, operations, and customer service, decides to hand off bookkeeping duties to a trusted family member or ...

Small business owners are losing the equivalent of 33 working days a year due to financial stress, according to a report from Xero.

A measure of small business optimism declined slightly in September, with firms expressing concern about inflation, finding qualified workers and uncertainty over the economy. The National Federal of ...

Small businesses are optimizing for survival and flexibility, not rapid growth. Rising costs and selective lending are reshaping how entrepreneurs define success. Resilience has become a strategy, not ...

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has rewritten its small business data collection rule, dramatically scaling back the scope of the rule from its earlier version in a way that will likely ...