Dynamic Small Business Management focuses the small business owner on increasing profits and cash flow through improving productivity, efficiency, and financial proficiency. This book's practical messages are understandable and can be immediately applied to any small business situation. Unlike many small business books that shun technology, Dynamic Small Business Management presents financial planning and analysis best practices illustrated with industry-standard Microsoft Excel and Word templates and tools in simple conversational style. The market for this book is large and growing. In 2002 there were over 22.9 million Small Business owners in the U. S, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA) with a growth rate of over 750,000 each year. If you add those small businesses that are home/cottage based and/or untracked sole proprietors the total number is more millions. SBA 2002 stats show that small businesses:
- Provide approximately 75 percent of the net new jobs added to the economy
- Represent 99.7 percent of all employers
- Employ 50.1 percent of the private work force
- Provide 40.9 percent of private sales in the country
- Account for 39.1 percent of jobs in high technology sectors in 2001
- Account for 52 percent of private sector output in 1999
- Represent 97 percent of all U.S. exporters