The LivePlan Blog

Setting goals is a fundamental part of improving. Here’s how to set goals within your business and track your progress—which better improves your chances for achieving your goals.

Accounts receivable is money that is owed to you by your customers for products or services that you have sold. Find out why AR is important, and how to track it.

Whatever type of business plan you’re writing, there are a few key financial items that you should definitely include. Here’s what they are, why they’re important, and how you should create them.

There’s something about paper that just makes it easier to concentrate and review data, especially when you need to focus. To get the “paper” experience, we’ve added a new feature in LivePlan that lets you print just your budget and forecast.

Most people think that meetings are a waste of time—and they’re usually right. Here’s how to run a monthly plan review meeting that as actually effective, useful, and not a waste of valuable time.

Direct costs (also known as costs of goods sold—COGS) are the costs that can be completely attributed to the production of a specific product or service. Here’s why this is important for growing and running your business.

Business owners who succeed in meeting their goals have one common thread: They all track their progress toward their goals. Here are the metrics and data you should track to realistically measure performance, and what you can safely ignore.

We’ve launched several new features that make the LivePlan Dashboard even better. If your business uses Quickbooks Online or Xero, LivePlan can now automatically create a business dashboard in seconds, create printed and PDF reports for board meetings and presentations with your own branding, and automatically create your budget and forecast.

We’ve all sat through that horrible presentation that’s nothing but bullets in 10 point font. Here’s why you should include visuals in your presentations, and how it can make them more persuasive and effective.

Sales forecasting doesn’t have to be hard—and you are the most qualified person to do it for your business. Here’s how to forecast your sales.