DETROIT – The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center will present a state-wide training program designed to strengthen financial literacy and improve the ability to access capital businesses need to grow, starting March 21 in Waterford.

“Know Your Numbers” is a seminar to help the non-financial small business owner achieve fiscal fitness, and is sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. Seminars will be held in Waterford, Livonia, Ann Arbor and Sterling Heights.

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

?Know Your Numbers? will cost $25 per participant; Fifth Third Bank clients attend at no cost. Spring classes will be held March 21 in Waterford, April 4 in Livonia, April 18 in Ann Arbor, and April 24 in Sterling Heights.

Networking and continental breakfast start at 8 a.m. and the seminar are from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Register online or call (734) 487-0355 for more information.

?In these trying financial times, Fifth Third bank recognized how important it is to reach out to business owners and help them become savvier in managing their business finances. Fifth Third Bank is proud to support the MI-SBTDC is these efforts,? said Kala Gibson of Fifth Third Bank.

The MI-SBTDC is a statewide business assistance program that provides no-cost one-on-one counseling, training, and research support for Michigan small businesses. It annually works with more than 14,500 businesses with 56 percent being existing businesses, with many being growing companies that employ more than 10 employees.

The Southeast Michigan region is headquartered at the Eastern Michigan University College of Business in the Center for Entrepreneurship and serves Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties with full service locations at the EMU Business Center in Detroit, the Schoolcraft College Business Development Center in Livonia, the Oakland County Business Center in Waterford and the Macomb County Business Center in Mt Clemens.

Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fifth Third operates five main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, Investment Advisors and Fifth Third Processing Solutions.