As we urge every CEO and business owner to do, we compare actual results with the projections the client made at the beginning of the year, whether it’s a formal budget with staff accountability or not, and we ensure a discussion with management follows. Even without...
I had a meeting this week with an entrepreneur/founder who had been advised to engage a fractional CFO to help him manage his company. The business is actually in its 7th year and has been singlehandedly managed by the founder, growing to a few million dollars in...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope for you and yours a healthy, happy and prosperous new year. That said, let’s talk about how to help create the prosperous part of that. Specifically, let’s focus on the financial plan/budget that you’ve finished just in time to start the new...
We have a client whose accounting activity functioned for years under the direction of non-accounting management, not uncommon among smaller privately owned companies whose limited resources often put accounting last on the shopping list. In this case, as we began...
If you have been following my posts for a few years, you’ve seen this diagram at least once before. It’s the master plan for planning that the best-in-class companies use to drive strategic direction and goal setting. Each year I urge more of our CEO readers to adopt...
