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Getting A Handle On Your Small Business Finances

Financial statements are a complete mystery for far too many small-business owners. Some might scan a monthly income statement and balance sheet, but few feel comfortable analyzing a statement of cash flows, much less using the valuable information it has to offer to make critical business decisions. The advent of QuickBooks and other accounting software

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What Every Business Owner Needs to Know About Cybersecurity

Benevolent hackers with IT cybersecurity firm EtherMon were able to remotely take control of several earth-moving excavators and drive them around via the internet during a recent risk assessment for a company with heavy industrial equipment. EtherMon CEO Brandon Reeves says the exercise, which was authorized by the company, was a stark example of why

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How Video Game Developer Godric Johnson Mentors the Next Generation of Creators

Back when he was a young student and budding artist obsessing over the latest release from Nintendo, Godric Johnson knew he wanted to create his own video games someday — but there was nobody to show him how to make that dream a reality. Today, Johnson, the founder of Baton Rouge-based video game developer Jetstreame,

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3 Tips to Improve the Reliability of Your Financial Forecasts

Most business owners probably have a pretty good idea of what their revenue and costs are in a given month, but what about some of the other numbers? What about the formulas that can give you indications of how the business might perform in the future, and the kinds of decisions you should be considering? It’s not magic; it’s financial forecasting.

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How Memo is Raising the Bar for School and Non-Profit Fundraisers

Three years ago Baton Rouge entrepreneur Travis Broussard and his wife, Summer, had grown increasingly disillusioned with hawking candy, magazines and cookie dough to raise money for the school their children attend. “We got tired hitting up our family and friends selling junk we can buy at the grocery store,” Broussard says. “We really started

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