You’ve had a really good year so far, after the mess of the last few years. Your top-line revenue looks much better than expected.

If you read any of the hundreds of articles on the topic of valuation of privately owned companies, you’ll get a laundry list of important but often esoteric measurements that your investment banker will quote to tell you wh

You’ve got a solid business that sells on credit and makes a nice profit doing it.

In the job of managing a company, the CEO/business owner has many tools available to help decide when a department is functioning effectively or not.

Those of us who have spent our careers in the financial world have been working with a quandary for many years: It’s very important to invest in marketing, but only in the marketing that works.

This article is about risk management for a small-to-medium-sized business.

Most business owners think of Working Capital as the amount of cash they have in the bank. But CPAs. financial analysts, advisors, and bankers define it as the difference between current assets and current liabilities.

So if you’re shopping or considering going shopping, and the interest rates aren’t sufficiently off-putting, here are our thoughts on the things you will have to keep in mind and deal with, as you approach lenders – even your current bank.

One of the things that small businesses – and often mid-sized ones too – don’t do well is bookkeeping, the source of all their financial reports.

The literature typically calls them KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators. I used to call them Critical Performance Factors, or CPFs, before the idea became popular and in every consultant’s toolkit.