Bill Porter: My Biggest Mistake
BILL PORTER Founder and chairman emeritus of E*Trade Group, in Menlo Park, Calif., and cofounder and chairman of International Securities Excha... Read more
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Shifting Workplace Values Alter Pay Strategies
A loss of employee loyalty, intense competition for top talent, and an unparalleled emphasis onperformance have combined to dramatically alter pay strateg... Read more
Accounts Payable: Catching Costly Errors
A CEO explains how costly errors can be when vendors overbill. Read more
Getting Money from a Moving Target
Q: I have a civil judgment in the state of California through the Labor Board against a former employer. The employer has since moved to ... Read more
Share the Salami
In 1995, Steve and Diane Warren, co-owners of Katzinger's Delicatessen, in Columbus, Ohio, attended a seminar on open-book management, a system that invol... Read more
Origins of the 500: Fresh Starts
Where do America's fastest growing private companies get all those great ideas? A look at how accidents and massive debt were catalysts for productive change... Read more
Upstarts: Bad-Debt Market
Even with the economy going at full steam, bad debt is on the rise. Here's why sorry news for compulsive spenders has created opportunities for various start... Read more
Collection Techniques to Avoid
Past-due accounts present a number of problems, one of which is how to collect them. When faced with this uncomfortable issue, avoid using these collectio... Read more
Choosing Accounting Software
Here's what you need to consider when choosing accounting software: Auditing features. These might include a map mode, an... Read more
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Using Plastic to Finance Your Start-Up
In 1997, I broke away from the existing partnership of professional technicians with whom I had worked for several years. At the time, I was the firm's le... Read more
Hot Tip: Payroll Tax Strategy
Gerald Padian is both a partner in the New York City law firm Tashjian & Padian and an investor in a start-up restaurant. He realizes he could be responsi... Read more
Human Resources: Hitting Pay Dirt
Micro Stamping Inc. dramatically reduced the number of hours it spends tracking employees' work hours by implementing labor-management software. Read more
How to Collect from Clients: Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk
Very few entrepreneurs begin their business ventures with the goal ofbecoming collection agents. Unfortunately, some of us have foundourselves in this unw... Read more
Terms of Endearment
Don't sign on new customers until they've agreed to your payment terms. Read more
Benchmark: Up to Your Eyeballs in Old Files?
If your company is buried in paper, you may wonder how long you have to keep old records. There's no easy answer, according to Donald S. Skupsky, author o... Read more
Forget Spreadsheets
Brodsky stresses that the best way to track monthly sales and gross margins is to do it by hand. Read more
Help! We're Facing a Cash-flow Crisis
Providence-based Anchor Communications, a $4-million magazine publisher, projected a 1995 year-end cash shortfall of $350,000. So chief operating officer ... Read more
Obit: Boston Ad Agency Finds Cost of Doing Business Doesn't Add Up
The obit of an advertising/PR firm that was started by three talented partners and why the firm failed. Read more
Taxing Endurance
A CFO and a tax expert detail how to avoid some of the pitfalls of state audits. Read more
Accounts Receivable: Phoning Slow Payers Pays Off
A management expert offers some tips on how to get slow payers to pay and what slow payments might mean. Read more
Accounts Payable: Creating a System of Safeguards
An architectural firm's vice-president explains his four-step system to manage accounts payable. Read more
Advisers: Rent a CFO
A company president explains how his business brought in a short-term CFO. Read more
Why Start-ups Fail
A veteran entrepreneur explains that the capital problems start-ups have usually are a result of bad planning. Read more
Advisers: Taxes 'R' Us
A CFO explains why she feels that having only one tax advisory firm can keep costs down. Read more
Leading Edge: Paging for Cash Flow
A CEO tells readers how he is able to monitor his daily numbers with a new pager, and how to get the pager. Read more
Second-Time Smart
A look at an Inc. 500 CEO, who left his first company because of a rift with his partner, and the lessons he learned. Read more
Bootstrapping: Great Companies Started with Less than a Thousand Dollars
CEOs from 11 different companies share tips and suggestions on how to fund a start-up with under $1,000. Read more
Software Selection: Budget Accounting Software
A look at five inexpensive small-business accounting software packages. Read more
Cash Flow: Barter to Contain Expansion Costs
A fitness retailer explains the benefits of using an international bartering network, and how to contact them. Read more
Accounts Receivable: Speedier Collection
A CEO tells how he ratcheted-up collection efforts as soon as interest rates started to climb. Read more
Raising Capital: Credit Card Dos and Don'ts
An accountant warns entrepreneurs about using personal credit cards for a business quick fix. Read more
Time Out for Foreign Cash Flow
Art Allen founded Allen Systems, a manufacturer of mainframe computer software, in 1986with $2,000 from personal savings. By 1993, the company had grown t... Read more
Closing the Sale (Completely)
Is it a cynic or a realist who says that any company that's never had an accounts-receivable problem either isn't looking very hard or isn't selling very ... Read more
No Pay, No Work
When James Stroop was president of a $12 million construction company, he took a hard line when it came to getting paid. Hewould stop work on any ... Read more
