Red Flags That Can Trigger an IRS Audit
Be Careful With Those Shares!
All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club
Should Founders Personally Guarantee Bank Loans?
Accounting, Finance, and Groupon’s IPO Challenge
Expansion Stage Sales Compensation: Are You Paying Too Much or Too Little?
What Lenders Require in Today’s Economy
Financial Modeling for Software-as-a-Service Businesses
Best Practices in Collections
8 Tips for Optimizing Your Startup’s Financing Strategy
Guidelines for Avoiding Small Business Fraud
Transfer Pricing – Maximizing Opportunities & Minimizing Risks
10 Steps to a Better Product Pricing Model
How to Measure ROI for Social Media Marketing
Key Cautions to Take When Accepting Checks
7 Tips for Managing Cash Flow Effectively
Critical Best Practices in Internal Controls: CASH
Large Scale Global CFO Survey Reflects Positive Outlook
Asset-Based Lending in Uncertain Times
Handling Shareholder Loans
Negotiating Loan Covenants – 4 Critical To-Dos
How to Slash Your Credit Exposure
Overhead Expense Reduction (new strategies)
8 Steps to Immediately Reduce Workforce Costs
Equity for Debt Swaps in Small Companies (creative way to pay down debt)
How to Negotiate with your Creditors
Tightening Collections Lead Times – Getting Your Cash Sooner
Navigating More Challenging Revolving Lines of Credit Terms
4 Commandments of Company-wide Cost Reduction – (contribution by Susan Clapham)
How-to Guide for Integrating SQL Database Content into QuickBooks – (contribution by Scale Finance’s Garrett Fisher)
Increasing Use of Fractional-use CFO/Controller Services – (Working Charlotte article by Scale Finance’s Dave Gilroy)
Monetizing A/R Into Cash – innovative new thinking for small and mid-size companies
Wall Street Journalpublicizes rapidly expanding use of “For-Rent” CFOs
Automating Invoicing/Payment Processes – Strategic Impact for small companies
Specialty Finance Applications – Winners & Losers
Benefit Cost Cutting in 2010
Maximizing Tax Efficiency in Case of Business Failure
Major Improvement in Credit Conditions – January 2010
7 Things Young Companies Should Never Buy Retail – February 2010
Low Cost Legal Support for Start-ups Through “Series Seed” Service – March 2010
Audits for Startups – Be Sure This is Best for You – April 2010
Audits for Startups – Be Sure This is Best for You – April 2010
Hidden Costs of Manual Reporting in Excel – May 2010
To Cut Working Capital, Try Bonuses – June 2010
How to Not Get Audited by the IRS – June 2010
Buying Equipment – Cut Cost & Taxes – August 2010
Audit Fees Still Falling, But Not As Dramatically – September 2010
Five C’s of Credit – September 2010
Fraud Mitigation Controls for Small Companies – September 2010
Collections from Bankrupt Companies: Risk Managment – October 2010
Spreadsheet Best Practice – Retaining Numerical Values While Auto-Rounding – October 2010
Credit Scoring – November 2010
Cash Management – A Creative Option – December 2010
Closing the GAAP to Scale Your Business
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