Readers of their company’s monthly financial reports typically see an income statement comparing the most recent month’s activity with the same month a year ago, the immediate prior month, or – for the truly enlightened managers – a budget for the month. All sounds...
If your revenue was impacted by COVID-19 and its ripple effect – and who wasn’t – you know it’s not going away anytime soon. How do you avoid a 2021 that looks too much like 2020 on your income statement? Maybe you can get better control of your costs – at least those...
How many times has a member of your management team, or a valued worker, come to you with a “great new idea” to help the company get better at something – a new machine that will shorten processing time, a new software service that will help you sell more products or...
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...
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...
