Business Strategies
A Fresh Look at New Business Development
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A quick look at LinkedIn reveals over 70,000 positions posted for New Business Development, but recruiters note that a lot of these jobs have been available for quite some time and that these positions are hard to fill. Why is this?
Read MoreCreating Competitive Advantages
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Visualize your company as a castle and the moat as your competitive advantage points. The wider your moat, the more protected you are.
Read MoreAssess Your Company’s Competitive Advantage
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Finding Your Competitive Advantage: Using the format below, identify your competitive advantages by rating each area of your business. At the end, add up your score and determine the areas for development based on the score sheet below.
Read MoreFour Strategies for Creating a Competitive Advantage
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Competitive pressures are tougher than ever. Companies have to dig deeper and work harder to create a competitive advantage. Creating a truly effective competitive advantage comes from the way a company creates and produces its products and services, not just how it markets them.
Read MoreTax Time: Put It in Your Schedule
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Now is the time to start planning for April 15 in order to maximize your tax savings. While there are lots of details we can’t include here, we wanted to help you get your calendar in order so you’ll be able to have a hassle-free tax preparation season.
Read MorePlan Early…Pay Less. Tax Relief in Sight?
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While April 15 seems like a long way off, we all know the inevitable tax day comes much too quickly. Jeff Bleacher, Managing Partner at Ross Buehler Falk & Company recommends that individuals start early by getting a tax “check-up” well in advance of tax time.
Read MoreTips to Make Tax Time Easier
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Tax preparation done now can result in thousands of dollars in savings because there are still things you can do to alleviate the pain of April 15 tax filing.
Read MoreGoldilocks, Inc. and the Three CPA Firms
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Goldilocks, Inc. was in desperate need of a CPA firm that met their accounting and auditing needs…..
Read MoreRatios Rule…
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Knowing the true health of your company starts with tracking these 3 simple calculations from your balance sheet.
Read MoreAccounting Tips: The Devil’s in the Details
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Accounting starts with the basics of money in – money out. But tracking that money can be fraught with problems, most often due to human error. It’s easy to be distracted in our busy business world and then lose focus on the accounting task. That’s when these tiny errors often happen.
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