Budgeting and cost control

Forecasting sales is an essential part of business planning. It's also vital to keep an eye on costs and make cuts where necessary. Our overview.

Cutting costs is the simplest way to improve your bottom line - but be careful that quality and morale don't suffer. Read our guide to cost control.

Growing businesses need to be agile, responsive and have contingency plans for whatever the market throws at them. How to plan for business growth.

Keeping track of your expenses doesn't need to be difficult. You just need a simple system for logging your expenses as you go

Sales forecasting is key to cash flow control, but it can be difficult for new businesses, because they don't have any past sales figures to go on.

When your business is ticking over nicely, you can keep spending focused on the right areas. Limiting expenditure could keep you in the black.

A helpful checklist on drawing up your business budget, including what to put in it and who to involve in the process.

Our helpful checklist will show you the areas to target when you're trying to understand or reduce business costs.

While you can't know exactly what the future holds, budgeting reduces uncertainty and helps you anticipate problems. Here's how to create a budget.

While you may not be able to influence how much customers spend, you can do is to control your costs and look at variable and fixed costs.