Money and Finance


Recent Money and Finance Articles

Estate Planning: The Essential Role of Insurance

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1995

A financial adviser offers some tips in making an effective estate plan.  Read more

Receivables: Learn to Love Slow Payers

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1995

An accounts-receivable manager offers some tips on how to sell to slow payers and make it pay off.  Read more

Benchmark: Impact of Lower TE Deductions

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1995

Graphs showing how various companies changed or plan to change T E policies after business-meal tax deductions.  Read more

Lending Guidelines: Legal Tips for Relationship Loans

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1995

A lawyer explains how to avoid the problems associated with borrowing from family and friends.  Read more

How to Succeed in Business in 4 Easy Steps

By Bo Burlingham |  Jul 1, 1995

A detailed look at how a successful entrepreneur guided a couple through various start-up pitfalls.  Read more

Benchmark: Venture-Capital Trends

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1995

A graph displaying what percent of venture capital was spent on various industries in 1994.  Read more

Accounting: Plan Ahead with Allowance Accounts

By Donna Fenn |  Jun 1, 1995

This offers a look at how a CEO set up allowance accounts to account for large, predictable expenses each month.  Read more

Accounts Receivable: Speedier Collection

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1995

A CEO tells how he ratcheted-up collection efforts as soon as interest rates started to climb.  Read more

Cash Flow: Barter to Contain Expansion Costs

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1995

A fitness retailer explains the benefits of using an international bartering network, and how to contact them.  Read more

Cashing Out: Shells Offer Liquidity

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1995

A consultant explains the benefits of a public shell and an executive officer explains how he used this strategy.  Read more

Do Due Diligence, Too

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1995

A CEO brings in an outside investor whose ideas about running a business clash with his.  Read more

Getting Down to Basics

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1995

Review of 'Bottom Line Basics: Understand and Control Business Finances,' a book that teaches financial management.  Read more

Foreign Currency Hazards

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1995

Expert advice on protecting your company's international accounts receivable against currency fluctuations.  Read more

A Business-Survival Checklist

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1995

Advice on managing cash flow.  Read more

Surviving State Audits

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1995

A CFO gives advice on handling multiple state audits.  Read more

How the High-Fliers Price

By Susan Greco |  May 1, 1995

Coopers Lybrand survey shows how fast-growing companies set their prices.  Read more

Plan for Profitable Pricing

By Susan Greco |  May 1, 1995

Authors of 'The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing' offer some advice about pricing.  Read more

The Making of a Millionaire

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1995

The step-by-step account of how G&W, a small, low-tech consumer-product marketer became an unlikely dream IPO -- and made its two founders rich overnight.  Read more

The Stock Pickers' Ball

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  May 1, 1995

Experts pick their favorite Inc. 100 stocks and offer some investment advice.  Read more

Problem-Free Shareholder Loans

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

Advice on how to borrow money from your own company.  Read more

The $52 Toilet-Paper Roll and Other Hazards of Closed Books

By George Gendron |  Apr 1, 1995

A company discovers an error in its accounting system when it opens its books to employees.  Read more

Collection Techniques

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

Two guides on how to collect receivables.  Read more

Audit Your Utility Bill

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

Tips on auditing your utility bill to cut costs.  Read more

A New Way to Keep Investors Happy

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

A company creates an innovative offer that investors love and raises capital.  Read more

Family Limited Partnerships

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

Advice on creating family limited partnerships.  Read more

View from the Top

By Jennifer deJong |  Mar 15, 1995

Four different types of business are represented in this piece that examines executive information systems.  Read more

New Warrants Please Investors

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1995

Explanation of why warrants are attractive to a company's investors.  Read more

Where Cash Actually Comes From

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1995

Chart illustrating where small businesses get their financing.  Read more

Why Quick Billing Makes Sense

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1995

Advice on invoicing customers on the same day you ship goods to strengthen cash flow and grow your business.  Read more

Anatomy of a Financing: The Benefits of Convertible Debt

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

A CEO explains how using convertible debentures was a good deal for his company and his investors.  Read more

Going Public: It Pays to Be Flexible

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

A comic-book publisher explains how he brought his cash-strapped company through an IPO.  Read more

Raising Capital: Credit Card Dos and Don'ts

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

An accountant warns entrepreneurs about using personal credit cards for a business quick fix.  Read more

Benchmark: Business-Continuation Planning

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

Some data showing 71% of small-business owners have small-business-continuation plans and who provided the plans.  Read more

The Employee-Run-Budget Work Sheet

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Feb 1, 1995

An up-close look at one company's budget work sheet used to support open-book management techniques.  Read more

Anatomy of a Deal: Finance Growth with Debt

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jan 1, 1995

The chairman of a factor firm explains how his company uses the private-placement financing market to raise capital.  Read more