Identifying Best Accounting Practice
Starting out with a common set of protocols makes the accounting process efficient and manageable for all concerned.
October 3, 2012
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Category: Business Growth
Developing a Growth Strategy to Become a Big Company Success Story
To maintain rapid growth over the long term, start with the lower rungs on the ladder and assess risks and opportunities, then expand the level of risk as you grow.
June 11, 2012
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Screening for Cultural Fit
Cultural fit can cover a variety of characteristics, but ultimately, the question hiring managers should be looking to answer is, does this candidate’s values align with those of the company?
May 7, 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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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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“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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Being SMART About Setting Strategic Objectives
The litmus test for each of your strategic objectives is that it has to meet each of these five criteria. If the objective fails to meet one or more of these criteria, then either assess it to determine if it is truly strategic, or revise it to make it more specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time bound.
January 4, 2012
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Developing Strategic Objectives for 2012
Strategic objectives should be selected to address the major challenges facing the company. To make these SOs manageable and actionable, limit them to no more than eight, and it’s vital to prioritize them.
December 28, 2011
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Time for your End of Year Wrap-up: 6 Things to Consider Before 2012
In addition to checking the data accuracy and closing the books, you should think about and plan for the up-coming year. Be sure your tax objective is aligned with your business goals.
December 14, 2011
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Strategies for Budgeting Success
Start by reviewing the numbers that show your actuals (from your P&L report), your forecast (based on where you think you can make adjustments), and the difference or variance for each line item. Now you have a working budget!
November 8, 2011
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Embrace The Joys of Budgeting!
It might make it easier (and more palatable) to think of budgeting as profit planning. If you have a profit plan in place, then you can truly track your income and expenses in a fashion that gives you a clear plan as to how to increase your revenues and where to cut your overhead.
November 4, 2011
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