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Financial Tactics;

The inability of most companies to double-check every bill that comes through their accounting departments has spawned an industry of specialized auditors...  Read more

A Software Package Under The Tree

Not long ago, using a microcomputer to handle personal finances was as popular as filing recipes electronically. Kitchen wizardry with the home computer i...  Read more

My Place: Thomas Ennis's Glass Beach House

The owner of this glass beach house holds 29 patents. He's putting some of them to work around the house.  Read more

How Health-Insurance Costs Compare

Chart showing how a company's location affects its insurance rates.  Read more

Quick Pay, Quick Friends

Want better service from your suppliers? Jim Ansara did back when he started Shawmut Design &Construction, in Boston, in the early 1980s. His goal was to ...  Read more

Mitch Kapor Spins A New Kind Of Disk

Once a week, Softsel Computer Products Inc. of Inglewood, Calif., publishes a "hot list" of leading software programs. By mid-March, after only a couple o...  Read more

The Secrets of Bootstrapping

18 ways to grow or survive by substituting imagination, know-how, or effort for capital.  Read more

Have It Your Way

Program generators can allow you to be your own best source for software.  Read more

Playing Hardball In Software

During its infancy, the software industry existed in innocence and harmony reminiscent of a William Blake poem: Lions lived with lambs. But software is gr...  Read more

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ...  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more

The Reluctant Entrepreneurs

Are American blacks still stuck on the bottom rung of the economic ladder because so few start businesses of their own?  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more