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Previous Issues of Howe’s Bayou

  • Building the Financial Reservoir

    by

    Brad Howe

    People with a stake in the outcome of any activity usually like to be kept in the loop. This is particularly true when the stake involves a financial investment. For public companies, the SEC mandates periodic reporting. For private companies, investors may hear very little until there’s a need for more cash, and then the…

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  • It’s Hard to Spot Trends in a Single Data Point

    by

    Brad Howe

    The results were pretty obvious once you got beyond the sports memorabilia lining the other three walls. They were arrayed in multiple sheets of graph paper, all along the far wall: five years’ worth of unit sales, updated in #2 pencil each week, in a line graph overlaid with a bar graph showing weekly revenues.…

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  • All Others, We Verify

    by

    Brad Howe

    Among a range of criteria for selecting a new employee in the accounting or financial area of your company, the first consideration should be integrity. No one wants to discover that they’ve hired a dishonest person, especially for a position involving money. But honesty is perhaps the most difficult of all qualifications and character traits…

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  • The Ultimate Sell Job

    by

    Brad Howe

    You’ve raised and spent most of the initial round of capital needed to get your product or service launched. You’ve dealt with the unpredictable elements, some of which cost you more money than you had set aside for such contingencies. Positive cash flow from operations is still a number of months away. What are you…

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