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Planning and setting financial goals for the future is an annual exercise for most companies. Preparing meaningful and useful income statement projections can help companies allocate existing ...

A budgeted income statement offers a window into the steps and initiatives a business takes to reduce expenses, expand market share and grow sales during a given period -- say, a month or fiscal ...