Your Training Wheels Business
A lot of owners think selling equates to retirement, but selling your business and retiring are not the same thing. In Josh Latimer’s case he sold his company Birds Beware,…
Engineering Profitability
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Did Microsoft Overpay For LinkedIn?
Microsoft’s recent $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn provides an illustrative example of a strategic acquisition – the type of sale that usually garners the most gain for the acquired company’s…
How To Hire The Right CFO For Your Business
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The Ultimate Business Stability Test: Can You Go On Vacation?
[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" overlay_strength="0.3"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" width="1/1" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default"][vc_column_text]Pinpoint the pitfalls keeping you strapped and working against financial performance. It’s summer time. As a business…
What is the CFO’s Perspective?
[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" overlay_strength="0.3"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" width="1/1" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default"][vc_column_text]How one CEO challenged Foresight CFO to gain insight about how CFO’s think. Last week a peer…
Cash Crunch Keeping You Up at Night?
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Profit Leakage: What to do when you sell more, but make less?
[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" overlay_strength="0.3"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" width="1/1" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default"][vc_column_text]Common places profit leakage can hide and how to solve it The dreaded profit leakage. It’s what…
Accounting vs. Strategic Financial Management
[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" overlay_strength="0.3"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" width="1/1" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default"][vc_column_text]Every successful business needs a good accounting system. Knowing what you spent, what you earned and what…
Create a Seller’s Market — Despite the Baby Boomer Sell Off
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