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Financial projections

- Financial projections are easy to do. All you need is the right set of tools, a good understanding of your business, and some common sense. In this course, you will learn everything you need to know about the tools. This methodology has been developed in a way that makes it applicable to very different settings ranging from big to small companies, from established businesses that have many years of activity behind them to start-ups that only have a few years behind them, and even to start-up projects that are still at the business plan stage. The key point here is to note that this course is not about predicting the future. It's about using all the information available to you to anticipate potential problems or identify business opportunities while there is still time to take advantage of them. Predicting the future is the trade of fortune tellers, not business people. I don't know of anyone who is capable of predicting the future. And if someone does, I'm sure he or she is not…

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