Today I was included on BlogTalkRadio with Shamara Cox (Mitchell) and was asked about many things. The questions I thought I would be answering regarding taxes and accounting ended up being about business concepts and principles. I was asked questions that were all pertinent to operating and starting a small business but also about how [...]
All small businesses have obstacles. Regulation, competition and our own hangups all could potentially be large roadblocks to getting a business up and running. That’s why so few Startups make it past 3 years and even fewer make it past 5 years. One could argue that as a business gets there sea legs they forget [...]
At this moment you may think I have for sure lost my mind and you may be right! The honest truth is I love how businesses work, how people work in them and how one cool concept or idea can literally change the face of the whole operation. I am of course talking about great [...]
We can argue the point all day long that accounting and taxes are very complex. Throw in time constraints of life then it just seems all that more difficult. I am a CPA with 12 years experience in the field of accounting and taxation and I will tell you that anyone can make things more [...]
I am tasked today of deciding how and if I want to change my business card. We are moving locations and generally when you move you have to change all those things that include all your contact information. Our business card has changed about five times over the 8 years that I have been in [...]
Yesterday, I found myself driving my baby daughter who is eight to the urgent care. She had a fight with a swing set pole and it won. We were talking about all the “what if’s” that she loves to contemplate every time she is unsure of the outcome of a doctor’s visit. After several scenarios [...]
Today I finished a book called Implementing Value Pricing, by Ron Baker. I have been very carefully reading since the end of June. I had started implementing the idea of fixed prices several years ago when I noticed the problems I was having with hourly billing. I spent several hours every month justifying my fee [...]
As a mom of two girls, I have watched Alice and Wonderland multiple times. It’s a wacky show….. I like the Johnny Depp version. I think that he is able to really portray his part in a way that no one else could ever do. Most of Disney movies make a little more sense to [...]
Virtual World Part 3 of 3 Change, sell or die I have seen company’s completely sell out because they no longer wanted to keep up with the technology and what it takes to switch to this new way of thinking. The public accounting world is no different. We learn about all these new things at [...]
Virtual World Part 2 of 3 A world without paper. Paperless is the only way to go! But I like paper! Guess what? Your customers don’t. We live in a world where we receive our invoices online, pay our bills online and receive our receipts through email. Before online banking our accounting processes were twice [...]