Money and Finance


Recent Money and Finance Articles

Penny Wise

Two common mistakes growing companies make with their accounting systems.  Read more

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

A Bounce in Venture Funding

Chart showing amounts of venture capital commitments from 1986-1992.  Read more

What the VC Crowd Wants Now

The venture capital industry is healthy, but VCs are more choosy than ever. Here's what they're looking for.  Read more

Proof of Bonding, Please

How to prepare for setting up a bonding line.  Read more

Plans That Ask, What If?

Women's Business Development Center encourages entrepreneurs to write and use exhaustive business plans.  Read more

Controlling Global Taxes

One company's approach to international tax planning.  Read more

Retirement Plans on Tape

Ordering information for 'Solving the Retirement Puzzle,' an audiocassette from Retirement Planning Associates.  Read more

Retirement Blues

Chart showing reasons why companies terminated employee retirement plans.  Read more

Four Quick Ways to Cut Your CPA Costs

Tips on cutting the cost of using a CPA.  Read more

How to Read Warning Signs

Ordering information for Financial Troubleshooting by David Bangs.  Read more

Transferring an S Corp. to Your Kids

Grantor-retained annuity trusts let children of S corp owners pay less in estate or gift taxes on stock transfers.  Read more

Honey's Better...

One company develops relationships with customers' payables clerks to speed up receivable collections.  Read more

Tuition-Tax Trap

Guidelines for applying payroll and income tax to tuition reimbursement.  Read more

Talking to the Money Club

Group distributes information on socially responsible businesses to investors.  Read more

Accent on Due Diligence

Outline of a three-part due diligence investigation that should be conducted before making an overseas acquisition.  Read more

By-the-Minute Monitoring

Schedule of one company's daily cash management routine.  Read more

TE Tax Tab

Ordering information for two brochures explaining the travel-and-entertainment tax deduction regulations.  Read more

What Foreign Buyers Like

Chart showing the number of acquisition deals by foreign companies in various industries from 1988-1992.  Read more

Global Start-Ups

Seven characteristics of successful global start-ups.  Read more

Tapping Your Product's Fans

A start-up received needed capital from an enthusiastic customer.  Read more

Spending Gets a Boost

Chart comparing the 1991 and 1992 investment plans of growth companies.  Read more

Financial-Reporting Video

Ordering information for 'Traps and Treasures in the Financial Statements', a video from Ernst Young.  Read more

Taking Stock(s)

Three professional small-cap stock pickers pan for gold on the Inc. 100.  Read more

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

When you take your company public, say CEO's on the Inc. 100, you change your job forever.  Read more

A Profitable Exchange

A summary of the differences between stock exchanges and their minimum listing requirements and 1992 IPOs.  Read more

Better Cash Management

Tips on using better cash management to help improve cash flow.  Read more

Two Partners, One Life Policy

'First to die' insurance coverage covers all company owners but pays only with the first death.  Read more

Why Be an S Corporation?

Why one company owner found it advantageous to be a C-corporation.  Read more

Recession-Proof Pricing

Publisher of coffee-table books replaces product line with shorter books, calendars and nature recordings.  Read more

Surviving an Owner's Death

Small company survived unexpected death of its founder through advance estate planning.  Read more

Earning Back Your Equity

By inviting venture capitalists to bet on their ability to perform, company owners raise capital without losing equity.  Read more

Fast Trading with Computers

Company computerizes barter technology to allow tens of thousands of small companies to barter goods and services.  Read more

Selling Off Notes

Company buys mortgages at lower rates than local investors, allowing sellers to become liquid faster.  Read more

How Growth Companies Handle International Finance

Survey of companies new to int'l business: their financial problems and solutions.  Read more