01 / The cost of capital
Know what reprices.
Changes in rates and lending conditions can affect equipment loans, refinancing options, and cash flow. Review your actual terms before making a decision.
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Article · Monetary Policy
Translating the Fed headlines into the only question that matters at your desk.
Article · Private Equity
The buyers have discovered Main Street. What they have noticed is worth knowing, even if you would never sell.
Guide · Know Your Numbers
Not a dashboard with forty tiles. Five numbers, knowable in an afternoon, that tell you how the business is really doing.
Perspective · Business Improvement
Before anyone calls you, they look you up, which means your site has been going on sales calls without you.
Debt · 6 min
Factor rates are not interest rates. How to find the real cost of the money leaving your account each morning.
Margin · 5 min
A point of margin beats a point of revenue, and it keeps paying. Most owners chase the wrong one.
Credit · 6 min
An underwriter forms a view in twenty minutes from five documents. Here is what each one says about you.
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The Macro Desk
Live headlines with a plain-English read on why each matters to Main Street.
One Plan, Three Statements
An income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow, before and after.
Savings Calculator
Answer a few plain questions about your business and see honest scenario ranges for what a review could find.
The Macro Desk
Rates, policy, credit conditions, and the buyers shaping Main Street. Public headlines provide context for the decisions inside your business.
01 / The cost of capital
Changes in rates and lending conditions can affect equipment loans, refinancing options, and cash flow. Review your actual terms before making a decision.
02 / The buyer’s perspective
Knowing how buyers evaluate a business can help you prepare, whether you plan to sell or keep building.
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