Think Before You Hire! Job Description Strategies
We recommend preplanning your workforce before you start recruiting. Assess the technical skills needed for the position that needs to be filled:
April 30, 2012
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Category: Best Practices
Creating System Benchmarks – Keep the Metrics Simple
When establishing system benchmarks, it’s best to stick to the essentials. Leave room for common sense and avoid the clutter of excess detail about process.
April 23, 2012
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Creating Business Systems: A Nine-Step Approach
This blog entry will review the nine steps we use to actually design business systems for our clients. These steps were originally created by e-Myth, but we use a similar strategy, or system, when advising our clients:
April 11, 2012
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Salvation through Systems: Bringing Method and Measurement to Your Business Processes
The first step is to determine which systems your business needs to run smoothly. In theory, every aspect of the operation can be systematized. Choose a new product launch, an advertising campaign, an HR function, or some other aspect of the business that needs to be organized.
April 5, 2012
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Seven Steps Toward Making a Great Hiring Decision
Only 50 percent of employees hired are considered “good” hires, and every top performer has the same productivity of three average employees. These figures dramatize how important it is to make the right hiring decision.
April 4, 2012
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Mastering the Chart of Accounts – Part 2: Balance Sheet Accounts: Assets, Liabilities, and Equity
The balance sheet is typically used to calculate the net worth of the business, and includes liabilities, cash, and equipment. A basic tenet of double-entry bookkeeping is that the total assets (what the company owns) should equal the liabilities plus equity, i.e. the books should balance. Subtracting the liabilities form the assets reveals the net worth of the business.
March 13, 2012
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Mastering the Chart of Accounts – Part 1: Income and Expense
Understanding the types and hierarchy of the line items in your chart of accounts will make it easier to maintain clean books, and use your accounting software properly. The chart of accounts categories fall under a few basic groups: income and expense, assets, liabilities and equity accounts.
March 8, 2012
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Accolo CEO Explains How to Turn Your Company into a Hiring Machine at Marin Business Forum Meeting March 22
The highlight of the event will be John Younger, CEO of Accolo, speaking on staffing strategies in a tight economy. The Marin Business Forum event will be help March 22 at 5:00 p.m.
March 7, 2012
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Finding the Right CPA to Meet Your Needs
CPAs come with different specialties and can provide expert advice on a wide range of topics. There are different ways to identify a CPA who is right for your organization:
February 23, 2012
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Prepare Your Books For Your CPA and Save Money!
Starting with clean books and financial statements will not only streamline tax filing but also lower tax preparation costs, and give senior management a clearer understanding of the company’s tax position
February 13, 2012
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“How am I Doing, Boss?” – Management Metrics Improve Team Performance
most managers only measure outputs, not inputs, which is like telling a Little League team to score more runs, rather than actually explaining how to swing a bat and make contact with the ball. Similarly, most companies measure traffic, revenue or earnings, without considering how to improve the company at an atomic level: how to make a meeting better, or an engineer more productive.
January 23, 2012
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How to Create Strategic Planning To Drive Strategy
One of the primary reasons that the strategic planning process fails is because the plan is written and then set aside to gather dust. Once the plan is created, it needs to be communicated to the parties involved in its success. Provide metrics that align with the expectations for the plan’s outcome
January 9, 2012
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