In this episode of Talk of The Town I discuss how business owners can utilize the data within their business to measure their performance and effect change in their business. Dashboards are all about measuring forward-looking indicators so you can turn the business you have into the business you want.
Leveraging Dashboards For Business Growth – WHHI Talk of The Town 11/20/18 Read More »
No, this isn’t about pizza, but I am talking about how to grow your bottom line. In this video I’ll walk through the 5-5-5 analysis and how you can apply it to your P&L to figure out how to be more profitable.
Whatever Happened to Domino’s 5-5-5 Deal? – Facebook Live 11/29/18 Read More »
Business intelligence is the practice of leveraging both technology and the data available in your business to facilitate business decisions. There are numerous technologies available today to facilitate data extraction and analysis. Also, thanks to the internet, cloud software and other technologies, data has never been more plentiful. Effective business intelligence allows stakeholders to make
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In this week’s video I talk about one of the most interesting tax planning opportunities available today – Opportunity Zones! This is a great planning strategy that you can use to significantly reduce your tax burden, and increase future investment income, if you currently have unrealized capital gains.
Get In The Zone – Facebook Live 11/21/18 Read More »
This week I talk about some takeaways from the AICPA National Tax Conference. I also talk about IRS penalty abatements, the new Qualified Business Income (QBI) deduction, deciding on a business entity and tax planning for year-end and 2019.
The Tax Man Cometh – Facebook Live 11/15/18 Read More »
Can your business operate without you so you can take a vacation? The situation… We’ve both been there. You and I are business owners, and we’ve often wondered if we can take a vacation. We are far enough into Fall that maybe you’re starting to dream of warm weather and sunshine. The holidays are upon
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In this week’s Facebook Live I talk about how we “bucketize” (i.e. – categorize) your transactions. Every transaction needs to be classified for accounting purposes. I’ll also provide a high-level overview of the automation we can build around that process. The goal is for you to spend less time working in your business and more
Bucket’s Got a Hole! – Facebook Live 11/7/18 Read More »
In this video I revisit an Entrepreneur.com article about one of the ways to measure the financial health of your business. I’ll also provide my spin on how to do it in your dashboard using the Altman Z Score.
Gold jacket, green jacket, Cliff Report, Altman Z Score – Facebook Live 11/1/18 Read More »
While listening to a recent episode of the Cloud Accounting podcast, a podcast I love, the hosts were discussing a recent article in Entrepreneur Magazine that stated startups should in-source their accounting, quality control and sales. The latter two are outside my domain expertise, so I won’t speak to those. I will address some of the
In-house your startup’s accounting? Not so fast… Read More »
In this video I talk about some of the possible data sources that you have in your business that you can use to populate a dashboard. I also touch on things to consider when developing the KPIs for your dashboard.
Data Sources for Dashboards – Facebook Live 10/25/18 Read More »