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Small Business Finance

Make Smarter Financial Decisions at Work

Gain the financial confidence to make smarter business decisions. Learn to manage budgets, control costs, analyze financial data, and use basic Excel tools to turn numbers into actionable insights for your team and organization.

  • Understand basic managerial accounting concepts, including revenue, expenses, and profit.
  • Identify and classify costs, including fixed, variable, direct, indirect, and overhead expenses.
  • Understand the role of budgeting in business operations and decision making.
  • Understand and implement financial concepts and terms such as the break-even point and contribution margin.
  • Create and manage a basic budget for a department or project.
  • Track and monitor expenses to identify variances from a budget.
  • Apply simple Excel formulas (e.g., SUM, AVERAGE) to organize and analyze financial data.
  • Interpret basic financial information to support workplace decisions.