New here? Get more useful information by subscribing for free via email or our RSS feed. Let’s get started. ——————— Why is this so hard? We find ourselves entrenched in the quagmire of a lingering and painful recession … more companies than ever need stronger financial management … and yet so many of them remain painfully…
» See Full Post...Wanna have some fun? How about logistics? Now that’s some fun, ain’t it? Social media has stimulated countless phenomena … but connecting with our communities is probably one of its most valuable outcomes … which is why this new UPS commercial really caught my eye. Remember the lesson that if the railroads realized they were…
» See Full Post...Doesn’t a lot of this jawboning about job creation make your brain explode? I’ve never read articles by Rex Nutting before, who writes for MarketWatch on the WSJ Digital network … but a banker friend of mine referred me to his “Time to stop worshiping small businesses” article. I’m not sure where Rex gets his…
» See Full Post...It’s exciting, isn’t it, when we stumble across crumpled notes that have been lodged in our wallet for years … to discover timeless gems that we may have forgotten? I’ve earlier reported on the piece of paper carried in the wallet of John Wooden, famed UCLA basketball coach, which bore the words written by his…
» See Full Post...Do you often wonder how this country gets along with the Pollyanna views inside the Beltway, mostly comprised of those who have never had to meet a payroll? The Senate passed the Small Business finance bill last week as a few Republicans crossed the aisle to provide the needed votes. The House is expected to…
» See Full Post...A recent WSJ opinion piece nicely summarizes the quagmire of uncertainty that plagues American business. I’m pretty tired of all of the “credit-starved businesses” stories presented like medieval alchemy … fix this and you’ve found gold … because most of them based on a few unproven anecdotes. The real issue is UNCERTAINTY … so I’m…
» See Full Post...Volume 2 of our Financial Adrenaline series, entitled How Do We Do it?, explains how we begin the process of introducing the powerful principles of Strategic Finance into your business. We expand upon our conversation about the current state of financial reporting and describe our commitment to you that Finance should NOT be the Reason…
» See Full Post...For at least 18 years, the Wine Industry Symposium Group, an organization of California wine industry professionals, has held the Wine Industry Financial Symposium to “develop a communications bridge to the financial community.” This year, I will be conducting a 90 minute workshop to help companies in the wine industry revitalize their free cash flow. Here’s…
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