I’ve been reading headlines recently about newly hired CFOs at several large companies. Some eye openers to be sure: PayPal delivered a package worth $6 million to their new financial guy. Walmart threw in a $5 million signing bonus, Pfizer paid their new CFO $5...
In the job of managing a company, the owner/CEO has many tools available to help decide when a department is functioning effectively or not. Some are easier to use than others. Managing the sales department may be among the easiest, because you have sales numbers to...
When someone uses your registered trademark without permission, it’s important that you challenge that activity, and police illegal uses of your valuable marks. Otherwise you risk losing the right to it. That’s one way of abandoning your rights to your...
Sounds like a no-brainer question, right? You’re the CEO, you run the company, you should choose your financial right arm. And mostly that’s what happens. But there is a trend afoot because of the increasing importance of the CFO’s input to strategic initiatives, a...
In any sizable transaction involving the sale of a business, the serious buyers will likely be interested in buying a stream of future earnings. And since future earnings are to a large degree influenced by past earnings. That is to say if there is some relationship...
