Check Point
Financial Forecasting

November 12, 2012

The most comprehensive means of financial forecasting is to develop a series of pro forma, or projected, financial statements. Financial forecast is about the pro-forma income statement, cash budget, and pro-forma balance sheet. The statements are often required by bankers and other lenders as a guide for the future.
A brand new company needs to have sales projection plan, production plan, and have a pro forma income statement because it is a new business, so it would not have any prior financial reports. If there was a new business that I would trying to open, I would have to know, how much money products are going to cost, how much revenue. I would need to make and what is expected of the business. Family owned company, would need the same thing. It is still treated like a brand new company because you still need financial reports, which are production plan, cash balance and sales projections to get the banks to finance and to know how the bill are going to be paid.
A long-standing corporation is a little different because they have been there longer and there are more financial statements. There are pro-forma income statements, cash budget, and other budgets used together equal pro-forma balance sheet are used by business small and large to obtain lending, set production levels, forecast sales, and forecast profits. There is an end budget plan because the business has been there longer, than the other two companies. The balance sheet shows assets and liabilities. Corporation use this information to determine gross profits and projected sales