- justify your assumptions especially if they are extremely optimistic or
pessimistic (i.e. if sales growth is assumed to be high, then break that
assumption down into an increase in price or increase in volume, possibly due to increase in population, etc.) - if certain accounts are not material, you should still make a realistic assumption about them but you don't have to scrutinize it as much - in income before taxes goes up, tax rate probably should change - management wages at minimum should increase at the rate of tied to a fixed asset schedule -