Every company beyond the corner candy store – remember those? – has complexities to their business that management must be aware of in order to manage. How to maintain that awareness? Lots of ways, including touring your facility with regularity, getting special...
This is a question that often comes up as we get referred to CEOs who need help but aren’t quite sure if a non-employee relationship is a good idea, especially in the sensitive area of finance and accounting. Our firm offers several distinct services which can...
This topic was the basis of an article written for the AICPA’s Financial Management magazine, and since they paid for it I promised not to publish it anywhere else. But they’d love for me to share a link to their publication, a win-win-win (the last one is...
America is the heartland of entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs. Our young people want to start their own business so they can have the kind of life they’ve dreamed of, or to follow that great idea. Many of our corporate executives yearn for the day they...
It was 1940 when Maurice and Richard McDonald opened their fast food restaurant in San Bernardino, CA. Fifteen years later they’re doing great in their single-location restaurant when a funny thing happened. At age 52, all-purpose salesman Ray Kroc was selling the...
We all understand terms like Pretax Profit and EBITDA that we use to describe our company’s bottom line, but what tells us where that profit (or loss) is really coming from? The answer is a set of numbers that rarely appears on an income statement. While the...
