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Recent Bookkeeping Articles

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

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

Ask Norm

Our popular CEO columnist answers some of the queries that have been crossing his transom lately, including tips on rolodex funding, negotiating and survivin...  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