• What Really Counts?

    Has your company outgrown its staff accountant? Is it time to start looking for a controller? How do you know? In the selection process, what really counts?

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  • First You Take a Vacation…

    Almost every year for the past 20+ years, my wife, Anne, and I have spent the last week of July with various members of our family sitting on a rock known as Star Island ten miles off the coast of Portsmouth, NH in the Isles of Shoals. As rocks go, it’s a pretty big one…

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  • In Search of an Exit Strategy

    You are the CEO of your successful small company. You’re involved in your business 24/7, overseeing every aspect of the operation, but there are so many fires to fight that increasingly you’re feeling burned out. You’re not even sure that you’ll find time for a vacation this summer. Whatever happened to the exit strategy? ou

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  • A Finger in the Wind

    May, 2011 “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans,” John Lennon said. Maybe so. But when it’s the life of your business that’s at stake, the planning process has to involve more than sticking a wet finger in the wind.

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