Nov 22, 2017 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Exit Strategies, Finance Mentoring, Non-Profits, Uncategorized |
Mark Olson, one of our seasoned CFO contractors and an experienced CPA, had a horrible experience recently when his ID was duplicated and used to defraud him out of thousands of dollars. How his long-time bank, Wells Fargo, dealt with it was so wrong and so...
Oct 3, 2017 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Exit Strategies, Finance Mentoring, Non-Profits |
New update on my foundation book, Finance for Nonfinancial Managers, 2nd Edition. A few months ago Amazon ranked it (based on sales on their site alone) among their best sellers on managerial accounting and textbooks on finance and accounting. (It’s used in...
Sep 6, 2017 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Exit Strategies, Finance Mentoring, Non-Profits |
True Story: A company mailed a check to one of its suppliers in payment for services. The check never arrived. The company placed a stop payment order on the check and issued a new one, which was cashed by the supplier in the normal course. All good? Not quite. Seven...
Jul 17, 2017 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Exit Strategies, Finance Mentoring |
When I wrote my first book, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, it opened with then-current stories of CEOs whose companies had been caught gaming their financial reporting, while the CEOs claimed they didn’t know because they weren’t accountants, or some such excuse....
Jun 28, 2017 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Exit Strategies, Finance Mentoring, Non-Profits |
OK, this is a shameless promotion of a book you should probably already have on your bookshelf. When I wrote the first edition of Finance for Nonfinancial Managers, I was pleased to see it rise to #46 on Amazon’s best seller list for business finance books. That...
Jan 25, 2017 | Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Exit Strategies |
A ShareVault blog post today quoted a statistic that supports what we’ve been saying about the abundance of money looking for good companies to buy. Their quote: “According to data provider Preqin, private-equity funds currently have over $1.46 trillion in...
