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The financial section is where all the threads of your business plan are pulled together and expressed in monetary terms. A key aspect of this section is to show the timing of your expenditure, before the business is operational and then into its first 12 months of trading.

It is important to note those earlier identified 'threats' to your business to ensure that as you forecast you can see the deviation of the best and worst models. For example, if a business has previously identified the threat of a diminishing cheap labour force, then their forecast needs to reflect that the price of labour (or any other resource such as power) is going to go up.

The traditionally the financial section had three key forecasts:

• Cash flow forecast
• Profit forecast
• Balance sheet

This should not just be an exercise in ticking boxes but is principles and methods based report where preset monitoring points are addressed in sentences. The HC would be done with the SBN co-ordinator.

The end of a financial year brings with it the opportunity to look back at what happened. One of the very difficult things for the small business person to do is to extricate themselves from their day-to-day role and review their business. Some term this working on the business not working in the business.

In the world of bigger business, this is the role played by directors at monthly or bi-monthly board meetings.

When managers are involved in this process it is not uncommon that they go away somewhere where there are no phones and place themselves in a different environment. For the small businessperson, this role has been filled by there accountant or by a business coach. One of the challenges for the small entrepreneur of future will be finding somebody able to help them work on their business in a holistic way. The traditional training of accountants and business coaches does not encompass the wider issues we have been dealing with.

review business performance

as already mentioned review sales weekly and have a more thorough review each month.

what would we do differently

could we do better?

How does the business fit with my personal life?

When in Rome, do as American tourists do everywhere – American proverb

Sometimes etiquette is easily explained to the non-native in a clear set of rules that any decent member of the culture follows. For example, in Japan it is considered impolite to show the soles of one’s shoes toward another person. However, sometimes the rules are not clear, and the polite person has to improvise to figure out the most polite thing to do. An example of this might be when the elder President Bush ducked below the table before vomiting at a state dinner. No book about culture or etiquette would have prepared him for that one, although now all American presidents place a strategically sited bowl beneath their chair at official events.

That said, the following is a simple explanation of the basic points of American Business Etiquette. This is a tool aimed at helping you do as Americans do when working with them on their own soil, over the telephone or even by email.

A Driver command is a rule class likely first seen in a Driver session encapsulated in a little graphic rectangle with icons representing (fronting for) a re-entrant scriptlet in Trainz extensible GameScript language. Most AI-Driver Commands are simple and easy to follow. Go to this or that trackmark, navigate to such and such a business, load or unload there, and wait for some event, and similar taskings. We hope to cover these in some depth in Driver Commands, but mention them here so that the new Trainzer can realize they are much the same technology as the Session Rules that appear elsewhere in a session's program flow. The biggest difference is the Driver Commands are enqueued, meaning their execution is linear—the first rule must execute before the next has a shot at being in control; that must finish before the third gets up to bat. Being 'on deck', like in baseball, means you can't affect the gameplay yet. One must come up to bat for your chance!