Continuous Financial Improvement

Chapter 3 “FIRST WHO.. THEN WHAT” Don’t start executing plans until the right people are in place.

What do you think about Level 5 Leadership?

CFI VBBC Continuous Financial Improvement Virtual Business Book Club

Chapter 1 – Boring but necessary. In this chapter, Jim Collins explains that he did the research because someone asked him a question he didn’t know the answer to. He describes his team that worked on the book and how many years it took them to complete their study.

On June 6 I am starting a Virtual Business Book Club. Our first book will be Good to Great by Jim Collins.

When it comes to business, numbers are not the enemy. Let’s see if we can make them your friends.

Why numbers have taken a bad rap all these years, I don’t know. Maybe it’s the institutionalization of education that occurred during the industrial revolution. It is difficult to undo years of hatred of numbers, but I’m going to try.

Snow is an unwelcome guest for most businesses. Find out how you can make the best of the situation, even on Valentine’s Day.

Even though they acknowledge that outsourcing is a bad word, the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs still uses it. Read this article that helps define what I do as your part-time CFO, and explains why it is a smart move for business.

Welcome to my annual tradition of year-end comment on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Every year I track how the DJIA is doing. If you read my earlier blog posts, you’ll see that I ask people not to get excited by high and lows of the market. Slow growth is better for the economy as a whole.

Cash flow is a popular topic of conversation with small business owners. They are always looking for ways to make their cash go farther.

Unfortunately, they make the same mistake as new parents . . .