Re: [SPAM?] Re: The "Cost" of the matter

**D* G* <d*@kos.net>**

Dan - I suspect your cash flow should identify the cash/financial  
requirements of your writing business rather than your operational  
plans.   I keep them separate - using the operational  plan for income  
generation planning and the cash flow to control expenses so my  
accountant doesn't have heart attacks on my behalf.  I do plug the  
numbers from the operational business planning into the cash flow  
income side so I know what I "should" be making.  Expenses are based  
on history and any costs associated with the operational planning.   
But I do consider these two things to be different.   Both are part of  
a business plan and my reply to jeff focussed only on the operational  
planning and did not include the cash flow side of things.  Sorry for  
any confusion  - thanks for pointing out the need for cash flow  
planning.

Doug

Douglas Green
Online Garden Publishing
Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

On 1-Jan-08, at 8:51 PM, Dan Clost wrote:

> A good point Jeff- even if I'm not Doug
>
> Will the exercise of even  attempting to write out a business plan  
> at least
> identify many of the hidden costs, aka overhead, that most of us don't
> account for until they bite us in the bum come tax time?
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@usol.com>
> To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
> <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [GWL] The "Cost" of the matter

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