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Breaking Free from Budgets
Exasperated by budgets that hamstring creativity, a growing number of companies are tossing off financial constraints--and still holding the line on spending. Read more
The Zentrepreneur
Restaurateur Phil Suarez has built his successful business intuitively---perhaps proving that you can't succeed if you're bored. Read more
A Simple Formula
Greg Wittstock's simple breakeven analysis formula helps keep his pond-building business -- and the landscape businesses his company teaches it to -- in t... Read more
Book Excerpt: Beyond Budgeting
Introduction: Toward a New General Management Model The budget is a tool of repression rather than innovation. ¹ Bob Lutz, ex... Read more
No More Budgets
In the October 2003 Inc. feature, "Breaking Free from Budgets," on page 72, writer Suzanne McGee profiles businesses that have abandoned the budg... Read more
Q&A: Seeing Beyond the Annual Budget
Jeremy Hope believes that the annual budgeting process and the fixed contracts it produces are of little value in today's quick changing business environm... Read more
The Magic Number
Every business has a magic number. By employing his, our columnist didn't overstaff this year. Read more
New Relief for Road Warriors
Web-based expense-reporting systems let you log on from the road and record expenses as you go. Read more
Inner City 100 EKG: Beyond Growth
We know the Inner City 100 (IC 100) companies are growing rapidly, but does rapid growth translate into strong financial performance? Can these companies ... Read more
Current vs. Capitalized Expenses
From the Nolo Small Business Center Tax rules cover not only what ex... Read more
Covering T
If you cover your employees' business travel and entertainment expenses, start the new year off right by setting up an "accountable plan." This type of pl... Read more
Smart Ways to Put Money into Your Small Corporation
Your corporation may need a cash infusion to sustain its operations. Instead of seeking new investors or a loan from a commercial lender, you may put the ... Read more
Take My Payroll, Please
An outsourcer turns an HR headache into a Web-based breeze by shredding the time it takes to do paperwork. Read more
IncQuery: My Business Is at a Crossroads
What to do when the economy takes its toll on your company, a customer's check bounces, you're making an essential hire, or you're preparing to sell your bus... Read more
High Concept: How to Spot an Enron
Two brothers predict that cash flow will eclipse earnings as the ultimate metric for sizing up a company's health. Read more
StreetSmarts: Peripheral Vision
Most entrepreneurs are compelled to beat the odds, to disprove the naysayers. They don't always succeed, but when they do, the experience is tremendously sat... Read more
IncQuery: Turning Ideas Into Products
How to go about getting your first products manufactured, financing a big sale, and marketing a service that no one wants to think about. Read more
How to Collect from Anyone (Even Enron)
Thirty ways to get paid within 30 days. Read more
Contrarian Thinking: Extra! Extra!
Conventional wisdom says that only the lean will survive in the current business climate. But can a company actually be too thin to get rich? Read more
Collection Slip-Ups
A panel of veteran collectors offers its opinions on what not to do when when it comes to collections. Read more
September Forecast Extra
Inc 500 CEOs weigh in on how the state of the economy is affecting their business. Read more
Preparing for a Financial Crisis
Companies can do much to avoid falling victim to sudden national financial emergencies. Although the tally of such events is rising, many businesses remain u... Read more
IncQuery: Becoming a Leader, Not Just a Boss
What it really takes to rise to the challenge of leadership, reduce swings in your monthly revenues, and win back customers you've let down. Read more
Getting Paid
Unfortunately, sending an invoice doesn't always result in getting paid. If you're having trouble with slow-paying or nonpaying customers, you need to dev... Read more
Finance: Cheap Executive Officer
For most businesses, there's one person who wastes more money than anyone else: the CEO. Here's how Rick Sapio, CEO of Mutuals.com, reined in the biggest spe... Read more
Making Your Financials Add Up
No business plan is complete until it contains a set of financial projections that are not only inspiring but also logical and defensible. Read more
Hands On: Deadbeat Deterrence
Mary Naylor, CEO of virtual concierge service VIPdesk Inc., has put an end to her deadbeat customers. Read more
FYI: The Million-Dollar Post-it Note
Confessions of a compulsive bootstrapper. Read more
Start with Nothing
Greg Gianforte, founder of $30-million RightNow Technologies Inc., learned that bootstrapping is not simply about pinching pennies and cutting costs. Smart b... Read more
Inc Query: What Do Your Customers See?
Determining what numbers you should be tracking, and other pressing business matters. Read more
Best of the Net: The Factoring Factor
Slow-paying customers got you in a cash-flow crisis? These sites can help you bring in the moola. Read more
The Unkindest Cut of All
How one company's founders have gone about cutting their own pay to help their business stay afloat. Read more
Archive: If at First You Don't Succeed ...
Before his 57 Varieties propelled him to entrepreneurial glory, H.J. Heinz was in a financial pickle. Read more
Bridging the Capital Gap
How the federal government can bridge the capital gap for growth businesses and earn $1 billion. Read more