How to Protect Your Margins in a Downturn
Here's how companies in 12 industries are faring, plus tips. Read more
Basic Accounting
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Ask Norm: Business by Numbers 
A reader asks how to deal with a change from using part-time accountants, to a full-time controller. Watch video
Case Study: When Your Bank Stops Lending
When Able Planet's bank pulled his $2.5 million line of credit, founder Kevin Semcken had to think fast. Read more
A Buyer's Market: What Is Your Business Worth Now?
As part of Inc.'s 2009 guide to business valuations, we look at why now is a great time to buy a business Read more
Update: When Prices on Raw Materials Rise
Faced with a spike in wholesale chocolate prices, gourmet chocolate company Choco-Logo raised prices and reexamined its entire cost structure Read more
How to Navigate Business Insolvency
Advice on bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, dealing with creditors, and financial insolvency. Read more
Ask Inc.: Mixing Business and Personal?
The founders of Preserve and Fairytale Brownies ask about the downside to doing business with friends Read more
How to Fix Cash-Flow Problems
Cash-flow problems have just a few possible causes. More often than you might think, business is all about the basics Read more
Renegotiate That Contract
Business owners toss previously-negotiated agreements out the window to bargain for reduced prices. Read more
Manufacturers Hit by Housing Fallout
Sectors touched by real estate and residential construction performed the worst last year, study finds. Read more
Factoring Receivables: A Bright Spot in the Credit Crunch?
Find extra funds by factoring receivables during the recession Read more
Taxes: Share Documents for Free With Pixily
Don't force your accountant to sift through a pile of paper receipts. Pixily is a new service that lets you store and share documents online. With the fre... Read more
Marketing: A Wine Derivative
Crushpad , a San Francisco winemaker, wants to make you feel better about your battered 401(k) -- and sell you some wine. So it's offering... Read more
Pricing: How Low Can You Really Go?
Case studies of three companies that made big pricing changes and the results of those decisions. Read more
Our Irrational Fear of Numbers
No, you didn't start a company because you wanted to learn accounting. But you had better learn some – pronto – if you want to really understand your bus... Read more
We Asked, You Answered
Has the Economy Got You Down? In the November Editor's Letter, we asked you to tell us how you are dealing with the current economic crisis.... Read more
Payroll for Dummies
A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business. Read more
30 Under 30: Making It
For our top, young entrepreneurs, success came early but it wasn't always easy. Watch video
Wanted: More Accountants
Finance experts are in demand as employers look to squeeze every penny, a survey finds. Read more
A Cheaper China
How a manufacturer saved money by moving inland. Read more
Will the Bailout Help You?
It's the $700 billion question on everyone's mind -- and nobody has a real answer. To understand whether the money will start flowing again, it's important t... Read more
Develop a Tax Strategy
1. See the Big Picture All things being equal, accountants aim to record income and expenses in a way that lowers taxes in the current year, prin... Read more
Driving the Deduction
The Economic Stimulus Act has turned the tax status of car buying upside down. Usually, the tax code gives a bigger break for leasing, says Gail Rosen, be... Read more
Five Ways to Save Money (Layoffs Not Included)
Five creative ways to save money -- none of them involving layoffs. Read more
Help Out; Get Credit
The government uses the tax code to induce investments in struggling areas. Here are several ways to do well while doing good, outlined in IRS Publication No... Read more
Let's Get Together
How to persuade workers to cut costs. Read more
The Money Hunt
Had trouble finding funds this year? Here are a few ideas that could help. For links to the articles mentioned below, go to Read more
IPOs Hit a 30-Year Low
But the guy who took Google and Netscape public is not concerned Read more
The Judgment Group Will Make Sure You Get Paid What the Court Ordered
Can it raise $5 million? Read more
How To Find Your Company's Cash Stash
How can you reduce the time it takes to send out invoices? Be the paperwork, advises Sue Gillman of consulting firm Aveus. Pretend you are a document on a jo... Read more
Need Cash?
Try looking inward. Read more
How to Sell an Invoice On the Receivables Exchange
There's a new way to sell receivables: on an exchange. Read more
Follow the Numbers
It's the best way to spot problems before they become life-threatening. Read more
SOX Reprieve for Small Business
The SEC will review rules requiring external checks on financial controls at smaller companies. Read more
Big-Business Printing, Small-Business Prices
A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business. Read more
