The Profitable Business Series

Break Even or Break Down

The Business Owner's Guide to Knowing Exactly What It Takes to Make Money

Break Even or Break Down - book by Cole Corrigan

What the Book Is About

Most Business Owners Don't Know Their Real Numbers. This Book Changes That.

You can be busy, growing, and still broke. You can have a full schedule, a team of people, and a revenue number that sounds impressive and still wonder why the bank account never reflects it. That is not a hustle problem. It is a clarity problem.

Break Even or Break Down is built around one core idea: every business owner needs to know three specific numbers. Not revenue. Not profit. Three break-even numbers that tell you exactly what it costs to cover operations, what it costs to service your debt, and what it takes to produce the profit ownership actually requires.

Cole Corrigan developed this framework over seven years of direct work with more than 750 business owners across 20+ industries. This book is that framework written in plain language, without jargon, for owners who are done guessing.

The Core Framework

The Three Break-Even Numbers

Most financial advice tells you to track revenue and watch expenses. That is not enough. These three numbers tell you what your business actually needs to produce.

Operational Break-Even

What the company must sell to cover its normal operating costs.

Debt-Service Break-Even

What the company must sell to cover operations plus its debt-service obligations.

Profit-Target Break-Even

What the company must sell to cover operations, debt service, and the profit ownership requires.

Who This Book Is For

If You Own a Business and Feel Like the Money Should Be Better, This Book Is for You.

Business owners generating $500K to $20M+ who feel like the money should go further
Owners who are growing revenue but not growing profit
Anyone carrying business debt that never seems to go down
Owners who want to understand their numbers without needing an accountant to translate
Anyone who has ever wondered whether their business is working for them or the other way around

This Is Only the Beginning.

Break Even or Break Down starts with the number every owner should know. Future books will go deeper into the financial and management systems that determine what that number produces.

Gross MarginOverheadWorking CapitalProfit PlanningManagement

Want to see how these numbers apply to your business?

The book teaches the framework. The Score shows you where you stand.

The Business Worth Owning Score helps you see where your own company currently stands on profit, control, and owner freedom.

Get the Book

Start with the Framework. Then Apply It.

The Break Even or Break Down Kindle edition is available on Amazon now. If you want Cole to walk through the numbers with you directly, request a Business Analysis.

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