Most business owners think of Working Capital as the amount of cash they have in the bank. But CPAs. financial analysts, advisors and bankers define it as the difference between current assets and current liabilities. One sounds simple and easy to understand, the...
The last few years have been wonderful for business owners who wanted to sell privately owned companies that they had built up over time. A sound business has been able to attract multiple bidders and often get a premium price for its owners, never mind the pause...
You’ve got a solid business that sells on credit and makes a nice profit doing it. That assumes, of course, that you get paid substantially all of your accounts receivable, even though some of your customers may want to use that money elsewhere, and others would...
I spoke with a CEO today, referred to me by a business associate, about providing CFO services to get their financial records current and their financial reporting up to what is needed to manage the business. It didn’t go as I had hoped. The CEO’s company, in the...
This question still comes up regularly: Should we lease or buy the equipment we will need next year? Often this is simply a cash flow question. But about half the time the questioner is actually asking which method is least expensive. So here’s the answer(s). #1...
