Tag Archives: Accounting

If You Care About It, You Will Track It

Calories. Blood sugar level.Cholesterol.Money. Weight.If we care about it, we track it.So when someone questions the profitability of a segment of your business, that answer should be readily available. For example, is that office making you money?Simple question. ​Is the investment you have allocated undertaken in time, energy and capital producing a return adequate to compensate for the risk taken? ​ It should be a simple question of pulling a f […]

If You Build It, They Might Come

Is this the most wonderful time of the year? October is here bringing with it cool weather, changing leaves and the baseball playoffs. To make it even better, the Cubs are in the postseason again! If their streak continues, I’ll have another sleep deprived month cheering them on to a repeat World Series. All this baseball has me thinking about great baseball movies. There is no shortage of quality movies about this American pastime but certainly one of my fa […]

3 Steps to Tracking the Lifeblood of Your Business

The cooler weather, the start of football, it can only mean one thing: budget season! Yes, it is very near the time of year when the accountants prepare their crystal balls about the expected sales and expenses for the next calendar year. As you have heard a thousand times, “Cash is King”. The absence of cash is blamed for the premature death of many great business ideas. However, many budgets simply compare expected revenue for the year by a line item near […]