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Suggest questionMost business owners know they should build a forecast for 2026. But many won’t—because it feels intimidating and time-consuming, and let’s be honest, it’s almost guaranteed to be inaccurate. This week, Tracy Bech, founder of The 60 Minute CFO (https://www.60minutecfo.com/) , makes the case for why you should do it anyway. Tracy breaks the process down into three simple steps, shows how even a rough forecast can change the way you run your business, and explains how her free 60 Minute CFO Custom GPT can speed things up and expand your financial analysis. Her point isn’t that you can predict the future. It’s that you need a clear, flexible model to see whether your business is on track—or drifting somewhere you never intended to go.
About 21 Hats
The proponents of employee stock ownership plans can make them sound like the greatest thing ever. A business owner can take a big chunk of money off the table—or even all of it—while still getting to run the business. And there are some pretty great tax breaks. Oh, and it will also solve income inequality in America. On the other hand, if ESOPs are so smart, why are there so few of them?
Jim Kalb of Triad Components Group in San Diego and Jeff Taylor of Crafts Technology in Chicago have both implemented ESOPs. Jay Goltz of the Goltz Group in Chicago has reached his 60s without a succession plan, and he’s considering his options. In this 21 Hats Conversation, you get to listen in on a street-smart discussion of the pluses and minuses of ESOPs from the business owner’s point of view.