December 19, 2019
As you look back on the past year, and think about planning for the future, you’ll ask yourself a question reminiscent of New York City’s former Mayor Ed Koch, “How’m I doin’?” So how are you doing? Did you have a good year and meet your targets? Is your business healthy, with a strong foundation? Are you protected against crisis? Can you answer those questions? Like legal documents, financial statements rank right up there for most entrepreneurs as non-narcotic sleep-inducing agents. Put another way, running and analyzing financial statements isn’t sexy. Sure, the idea of $1 million in income is “hot,” but it takes on a different significance if you have $2 million in debt. And like those incomprehensible legal documents, what you don’t know can hurt you. Financial illiteracy has plagued many a business owner (and I certainly wasn’t immune to that when I first started out). But, as Rochelle Lisner of Dynamic Business Growth is fond of saying, “You can’t change what you can’t measure.” If you’re only looking at the top line…
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