GRAND RAPIDS – The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center will present financial tools workshops in metro Detroit this fall.

5 Keys to Achieving Fiscal Fitness, a workshop to help the non-financial manager business owner achieve Fiscal Fitness is a state-wide training program designed to strengthen financial literacy and improve the ability to access capital businesses need to grow. The program is sponsored by Fifth Third Bank and events will be held in Waterford, Southgate, Detroit and Monroe.

Topics to be discussed include:

Identifying problems using your balance sheet and income statement

Providing ways to increase your company’s cash flow

Using breakeven analysis to improve decision-making

Planning the working capital to support your growth

How to keep your banker on your side

5 Keys to Achieving Fiscal Fitness will cost $25 per participant with scholarships available for Fifth Third clients. Classes will be held:

September 29 Oakland County Business Center in Waterford

October 20 Downriver Community Conference in Southgate

November 16 TechTown in Detroit

November 17 Monroe County Community College in Monroe

Networking and continental breakfast start at 8 a.m. and the seminar runs from 8:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. For more information, click on MISBTDC.Org

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