Five Ways to Prime the Pump to Improve Cash Flow
With any small business, cash is king, and keeping ready cash available to cover expenses and payroll can be an ongoing challenge.
May 2, 2011
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Physician Staffing: The Right People Can Make or Break Your Practice
As with most entrepreneurial operations, doctors tend to want to focus on what they are really good at, which is healing patients. That means that running the office, the actual business operation, has to fall to staff members they can trust.
April 26, 2011
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Start-Ups and Staffing: Better to Plan to Get It Right the First Time
Many entrepreneurs enter into their new venture without a clear human resources plan. Having a plan doesn’t just mean identifying key employees and decision-makers; that’s easy. It means having an HR strategy in place that is both compliant with the law, and is designed to attract and retain the talent you need to succeed.
April 7, 2011
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Why It Makes Sense for Start-ups To Hire an Interim CFO
The advantage of hiring an interim CFO is you get someone with the experience and expertise to help you get the company organized and poised for success
March 28, 2011
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Why Start-ups Fail to Start with the Right Infrastructure
The smart business owners know they don’t have to do everything themselves, but can rely on outside experts to take a lot of the routine tasks off their shoulders.
March 15, 2011
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Need Mobility to Boost Productivity? Think Terminal Services
There are very few businesses operating on a strictly 9:00 to 5:00 basis these days, and to save commuting time and promote productivity, a number of businesses are going mobile – allowing employees remote computer access to business data.
March 1, 2011
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Succession Planning: Why You Need to Start Now
A lot of succession planning revolves around financial structure and tax strategies, and they take time to implement. Unfortunately, 95 percent of small business owners decide they want to sell within a few months and they don’t have enough time to prepare.
February 23, 2011
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An Accounting Parable: Beware Operator Error
No matter what kind of business your own, it’s imperative that your bookkeeping not only track transactions in and out, but provide the intelligence you need to understand how your business is doing.
February 16, 2011
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of a “Bad Hire”
Too often, business owners keep unwanted staff too long or for the wrong reasons, and even more often, they make the wrong hiring choice in the first place. Interviewing potential employees is tricky, and there are very few managers who have been trained in effective interview techniques.
February 11, 2011
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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure – A Five-Step Approach to Measuring Employee Performance
Employee performance measurement can help you understand how your employees are developing and contributing to your business using quantitative metrics.
February 7, 2011
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Helping a Bay Area Oncology Clinic Recover its Profits
We do a lot of work helping area medical practices refine their business operations to regain their profits. Increasingly, medical offices are feeling the squeeze
January 20, 2011
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The Controller Holds the Key to Your Profitability
While the CFO is responsible for more strategic counsel and overseeing your company’s fiscal performance as it relates to the market at large, the controller is responsible for guiding operations on a day-to-day basis and keeping the corporate ship running through effective cash management and operations oversight.
January 13, 2011
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