Jul 13, 2018 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Finance Mentoring, Non-Profits |
In a recent presentation by an economist from the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, I learned their carefully studied view of the economy over the next couple years, particularly as it impacts your ability to hire and keep good workers. The news was not great for...
Apr 30, 2018 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Non-Profits |
For employers who don’t regularly check on updates to California’s ever-changing labor law landscape, here are some areas where recent changes to the law may affect your hiring/management practices: 1. ICE job site inspection constraints – AB450 2....
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 10, 2017 | Non-Profits |
Every not-for-profit board I have been privileged to serve on had term limits in place when I left the board, if not so when I joined. That has been a strong position of mine for many years, and for good reasons, as my own experience amply demonstrated. The last board...
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 21, 2017 | Controller for Rent™, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Finance Mentoring, Non-Profits |
I recently saw some statistics on the second quarter 2017 business bankruptcy filings in the United States, by industry and compared to the years since the Great Recession. The good news: business bankruptcies as a whole are way down, a function of an improving...
