Finance deals in numbers all day. But how often are you generating numbers to find out how efficient your finance team is?
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Tags: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Finance, metrics, Payroll
Even with all the new technology, spreadsheets are still the most relied upon tool in Finance. But there are certain situations where you should use something else.
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Tags: Errors, Finance, Privacy, Spreadsheet
There are some very compelling reasons to have a CPA look over your firm’s books.
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Tags: audits, Certified Public Accountants, compliance, CPA, Financial statements, Interest rates, IRS, Loans, Outstanding debt, University of Chicago
During the worst months of the recession, community and regional banks were the only means of credit for many small businesses. But many of these institutions are tightening up their lending practices.
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Tags: Community banks, Community lenders, Federal Reserve, Financial health, Loan, Regulatory agencies, Small businesses
For floundering small businesses, June 15th — the day the SBA started handing out the first of 10,000 deferred-payment loans — couldn’t have come soon enough.
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Tags: A/R, American Recovery Capital program, Credit-card debt, Loans, Small business administration
You and your Accounts Payable folks have probably seen some questionable things staffers tried to slip through on reimbursement. Bet they were never as bad as many of these!
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Tags: Accounts Payable, British government, Dog bowl, Expense reports, Moat, Pink laptop
Trying times have a way of driving staffers to take drastic measures. So, now is the time to watch out for tainted performance metrics.
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Tags: Bankrupt companies, Budgets, Deloitte Forensic Center, Employee fraud, Peformance metrics, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
