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...
When I wrote my first book, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, it opened with then-current stories of CEOs whose companies had been caught gaming their financial reporting, while the CEOs claimed they didn’t know because they weren’t accountants, or some such excuse....
OK, this is a shameless promotion of a book you should probably already have on your bookshelf. When I wrote the first edition of Finance for Nonfinancial Managers, I was pleased to see it rise to #46 on Amazon’s best seller list for business finance books. That...
Some say it’s downhill from here: “U.S. CFOs, on average, believe there is a 31% chance that the U.S. economy will be in recession by year-end 2016… That percentage is double the 16% who thought so just 10 months ago.” Source: Duke...
We’ve been writing in this column and in our newsletters for a couple years now about the upcoming reversal of fortunes for business owners wanting to sell their companies in the next few years. We wrote about the changes in valuations that will come when many...
