Money and Finance


Recent Money and Finance Articles

Red alert

Discontinuing work on projects for late-paying customers.  Read more

Beware Of The Tax Man

Chart depicting a telephone poll asking whether companies have been audited in the last ten years.  Read more

Devil Or Angel?

Digital-camera start-up is offered capital from Panamanian investors with rumored ties to the deposed regime.  Read more

Venture Capital Express

How to write a business plan that will get you in the door.  Read more

Holdup or Holdout

Louisiana State penitentiary inmates produce an award-winning publication.  Read more

Try Harder, Part II: FilmStar Inc.'s Surprise Ending

Filmstar Inc. set out to change the market for independent-film financing and distribution. All didn't go as planned.  Read more

The Gang's All Here

Company president meets yearly with advisers to plan for the future.  Read more

Who Needs Wall Street?

The ingredients of a do-it-yourself IPO.  Read more

Muscling In

Profile of a start-up reconditioner of classic American muscle cars.  Read more

Creators of the New Japan

Why Japan's future will depend more and more on small, innovative research- and development-oriented companies.  Read more

Going for Broke

Interview with five bootstrappers on the trials of having had too little money to start their businesses.  Read more

What Is Your Greatest Financial Obstacle?

Chart depicting financial obstacles.  Read more

Hotline

Current trends affecting small business.  Read more

Tuning Up for Growth

Evaluating and up-grading financial systems in preparation for intensive growth.  Read more

Full Circle

Businessman returns to Poland determined to transform a Communist monument into a center of capitalism.  Read more

Money Supply

Chart showing where small companies expect cash to come from in the 90s.  Read more

No pay, no work

Discontinuing work on projects when payments are not made on time.  Read more

Consumer Finance

Using loyal customers as a source of funding for product development.  Read more

Honey, I Shrunk the Company

What to do when your company has overexpanded.  Read more

Getting Paid

How to make collecting bills as much a part of daily business as making sales.  Read more

The Dark Side

Some common fears of private companies who go public.  Read more

How To: Use Technology to Manage People

CEO tells how to keep in close contact with your employees by using technology.  Read more

Less Filling, Sells Great

To avoid budget and cash flow problems a software company talks its customers into buying less for the short term.  Read more

Watch Over Me

Company keeps watch over the quality of manufacturing done overseas for client companies here in the U.S.  Read more

Money-Back Service

A travel agency discounts airfare prices, charging a flat fee.  Read more

Fit to Be Sold

Getting your company's financial records in shape for prospective buyers.  Read more

Sign Of The Times

The U.S. Tax Court ruled that a New York printing company could deduct kickbacks to purchasing agents.  Read more

Purse Strings

Woman starts the first venture capital fund designed to help women-run companies.  Read more

Risky Business

A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business.  Read more

The Search for Grubby Capital

Company specializes in recovering capital by selling off client's excess inventory.  Read more

Straight Talk

Company successfully refocuses its monthly reporting system to reflect financials that mean more to managers.  Read more

USSR Inc.

Moscow city government and American publishing company team up to publish a magazine for U.S. and Soviet entrepreneurs.  Read more

Buying a Business

The firsthand account of one man's search for and subsequent purchase of a company.  Read more

The Language of Business

Apart from traditional accounting, a CEO works out his own equations for success.  Read more

Congressional Privilege

The U.S. International Trade Commission publishes reports based on data from overseas markets.  Read more