About Business News 7

Most companies are small, and most business journalism is not written for them. BUSINESS NEWS 7 covers entrepreneurship at the scale where the owner signs the checks: independent retailers, workshops, agencies, importers, family firms and one-person operations. The audience is people who carry payroll on a personal guarantee and want reporting that treats a cash-flow gap as the serious event it is.

Most of what appears here is a profile. The publication sits with an owner, works through the actual figures — margin, lease, wage bill, days sales outstanding — and publishes the parts other outlets leave out, including the years that did not work. It does not run success formulas, franchise advertorial, or guidance from consultants who have never met a payroll. Numbers are quoted with their source and their date.

Entrepreneurship deals with the decision to start and the cost of it. Small Business covers running the firm day to day: staffing, suppliers, premises, insurance, tax. Trade follows importing and exporting, duties, customs paperwork and the currency exposure that comes with buying abroad. Finance sets out how small companies are actually funded, from bank credit and invoice discounting to equipment leases, grants and savings, and what each one costs. Founders profiles the individuals behind these businesses. Startup News and Business News keep the record of new registrations, closures, rate changes and policy decisions that reach the shop floor.