This question still comes up regularly. Should we lease or buy the equipment we will need next year? About half the time the questioner is actually asking which method is least costly. So here’s the answer. The answer will ALWAYS be: Leasing is more expensive....
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...
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...
That’s the essence of today’s announcement from the Federal Reserve that they will continue to keep interest rates low for several more years. The cost of money for growth will stay low to help the economy recover, to provide lending at low cost rates for...
"…three out of four small businesses that applied to banks for credit in 2010 got none or only some of the amount they asked for; half were rejected outright." That quote comes from a study conducted by the New York Fed and published as part of a...
