How well do your company’s financial statements tell your story? Is it all up front, or is it hidden between the lines? In developing your year-end financial reconciliation, be mindful of your presentation. Your history may not be the best guide to your future.
Does seasonal compensation relate to annual compensation in your company? Does Santa Claus come to your company party distributing gift certificates as a substitute for well-determined incentives? Are employee expectations thus fulfilled, or does this just whet everyone’s appetite for something other than dinner?
At a time when most bankers say that they have plenty of money to lend, plenty of small businesses seem to be stuck in the mud or even shut out of the borrowing business. It’s time to review borrowing basics.
In her unending effort to catalogue the best retail resources in New England, my wife Anne several years ago chanced upon an unobtrusive store in mid-coastal Maine, about five miles north of Moody’s Diner (itself well-known to value-seeking eaters). Alongside Route 1, just beyond The Well-Tempered Kitchen, behind a relic of a cash register in […]