Credit and Receivables: do you manage them or do they manage you?

Receivables and Credit Unless you’re a cash business, you will need to extend credit. How you manage your receivables will determine how much cash flow you ultimately have. When was the last time you calculated your Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)? Have you ever heard of the Collection Effectiveness Indicator (CEI)? I hadn’t until I did […]

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Intellectual Property: Should you protect it?

Intellectual Property (IP) can be the most important asset to your corporation Just ask Kodak, whose management sat on its intellectual property for years. They never knew what it was worth! The question now becomes how you protect your IP. First, you need to determine whether it will be worth something, to some investor down […]

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Quickbooks to Xero, a snap

Moving to QuickBooks If you’ve been using QuickBooks for a while you probably know that the desktop version is very limiting. Even if you “graduate” to QB Pro or make the mistake of going on-line, you still had many technical issues (although credit to Intuit for fixing many, but not all of them). And if […]

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Looking for an Investor or that Exit – start early

So you are looking for an Investor or Exit Business owners, both young and old (by both their age and the age of their businesses) always have an eye on either new investor(s) or a buyer for an exit from the business. Obviously, in any case the business needs to be attractive. The value proposition […]

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On-Demand Course: GAP Analysis: A Practical Approach

Course Link: ÂGAP Analysis: A Practical Approach Course Reviews GAP Analysis This follow-up course to Business Process Mapping provides an in depth look at the actual performance of system and process GAP Analysis and how the results of this strategy can provide benefits in addition to assisting in laying out the requirements for a new […]

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All it takes is one employee to ruin your brand

I reached out to a certificate authority about buying a secure server certificate for my web/e-mail server. brand Seems simple enough I needed some technical information based on the server’s configuration since I not only hosted my companies e-mail and web presence but I have several non-related domains (i.e., domain.com, example.com, foo.com). In addition, I […]

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