We’re starting a four-part series today, on the four processes that affect your bottom line. They are The Sales Process, The Production Process, The Delivery Process and The Billing and Payment Process.
John D. Rockefeller was a famous industrialist and philanthropist. He founded Standard Oil Company and became the world’s richest man controlling 90% of all in the US at its peak. His fortune at his death was $23 billion in today’s dollars. He was also well known for his generosity and donated over $500 million to…
Last week, we had an overview of “3 Tips to Manage The Madness In Your Business.” The first tip was shortening cycle times. Depending on the type of business you’re in, all of us have a sales cycle, delivery cycle and a billing/payment cycle. If you’re a product, manufacturing or contracting company, you also have…
We just finished a 3 part series “Teaching Financials to Drive Performance”. The goal was to teach business owners how the impact of their decisions plays out in their financials statements.
In our last post, we discussed that of the 4 critical items, (Profitability, Asset Quality, Liquidity and Leverage) 3 of them are from the Balance Sheet. The 4th, Profitability is on the Profit and Loss Statement, sometimes called the P&L or the Income Statement.
We believe it’s critical for every business owner to know how to manage money once it’s in the business rather than just making sales. And it can be even more impactful if all employees are empowered to know how the decisions they make affect the bottom line and top line of the business. In order…
I thought this would be a good follow-up to my last post “5 Things to Know Before You Borrow.” Many of us get an annual physical, the doctor checks us out to see how things look like cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate and respiration and compare them to last year. We want to manage our…
Sometime ago I read an article about Pete Maravich, former LSU and NBA basketball player and what made him so successful. When asked that question by the sportswriter, he answered “before I take the shot, I can’t see myself missing.” While it would be easy to interpret that comment as arrogant, the article stated that what he…
If you’re like me, you’re reflecting on 2015 and setting the table for 2016. What are you going to start doing, stop doing and keep doing? One of the ways of determining this is to look at the key metrics of your business to determine if you’re on the right track for success or what…
You’re busy running your business and all of a sudden you get a phone call from a potential suitor that is interested in buying your business. You’re flattered, intrigued, you might even consider selling. But what’s the value of your business? How do you structure the sale? What’s going to be your tax liability? What’s…
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