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- Accounting (12)
- Banking & Financing (12)
- Budgeting & Forecasting (11)
- Cash Management (12)
- Compensation (10)
- Financial Management (37)
- Financial Reporting (11)
- General Management (46)
- Merger & Acquisition (9)
- Strategic Planning (9)
- Valuation (5)
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Papering Over the Numbers
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More than a few years ago, I found myself doing the same thing at the age of forty that I was doing at the age of ten – delivering newspapers. However, instead of the Herald and Globe on my battered old Schwin bike, I was distributing The Cambridge Express in my battered old Ford Maverick.…
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Inside Sports… Inside Business
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The proliferating use of data to help assess results of sports teams and sporting events in recent years threatens to turn sports fans into statisticians in order to gain a better understanding of the competitive field. Similar measures that are available in most businesses can help owners and managers improve their game.
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A Little Payroll Music, Please
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The expanding economy and tightening labor pool are exerting upward pressure on payrolls. Here’s a perspective and a tactic to keep in mind as you consider compensation issues in coming months.
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Taxing Decisions
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“Financial Managers Trust,” a Massachusetts business trust, was a relatively new concept in Massachusetts corporate law when I hung out my shingle 22 years ago. The corporate trust provided the state equivalent of a federal S Corporation, with taxes at the personal rate of 5% rather than the usual Mass.corporate rate of almost twice that…