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III. Nursery Financing -- Planning, Financial Analysis, Spreadsheets,Cash Flow, Liquidity, Inventory, Data Acquisition, Production Costs, Pricing, Banking, Developing a Business Plan.

Reading Assignments

		Page
1.	Raulston -- Basic Steps in Forming a New Business	84
2.	Marciel -- How to determine how much your business is worth	88
3.	Hall -- Nursery Financial Management	90
4.	How to Figure Profit	103
5.	Understand Margin, Markup to Keep From Losing Money	104
6.	How to figure interest	105
7.	How's Your Turnover?	106
8.	Wholesale Nursery Gross Margins	107
9.	Taylor et al. -- Calculating Field Nursery Costs	108
10.	Johnson -- Calculating Nursery Production Costs	118
11.	Adcock -- Importance of propagation to a nursery	124
12.	White -- The Seven C's of Credit	128
13.	Hosey and Percival -- How to Find and Train the Right Banker	130
14.	Seidel -- Use Excess Cash to Increase Income	132
15.	McDaniel -- The Closely Held Corporation - The Best TaxShelter You Can Own	133
16.	Abdulziz -- To Inc. or Not To Inc.	135
17.	Howland -- Buy - Sell Pacts - Partnerships	137
18.	Ball -- Thoughts on Expanding	138
19.	Griffin -- Charting Your Company's Course	139

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