1. Your financial dashboard : the net income statement, cash flow statement, and balance
2. The net income statement : the key to growing your profits
Line items on your net income statement
3. Using your net income statement to improve profits : driving with your eyes open
Driving profits for product businesses
Driving profits for service businesses
4. The breakeven point : when your business is truly self-sustaining
Why the breakeven point matters
How to discover the breakeven point
It takes time to each the breakeven point
Marketing expenses can help or hinder
Staying at or above your breakeven point
5. Your cash flow statement is speaking : can you hear it?
Why cash flow is important
Net revenue and cash are not the same thing
How the cash flow statement works
Budgeting cash the easy way
Cash-burning traps to avoid
6. Managing your cash flow : more is better
Managing your cash inflow
Managing your cash outflow
7. What 's you company worth? : the balance sheet holds the secret
What the balance sheet reveals
The three sections of the balance sheet
8. The balance sheet in action : how to win friends and influence bankers
What the balance sheet numbers reveal
How to improve your balance sheet
How a bank evaluates a business
Duration of a loan and the role of collateral
Eight myths about dealing with banks
9. Putting it all together : your financial dashboard in real time
Basic business transactions
Ratios and percentages help find the patterns
10. Numbers make the business : an interview with Norm Brodsky
Inside the mind of Norm Brodsky.