A variety of financial ratios can help business owners make sense out of financial data, like profit, sales, and assets, that can be difficult to analyze without context. Ratios don’t give you [...]

As a franchise owner, you enjoy the benefits of expanding your business and earnings without being forced to open and manage individual locations on your own. But to fully enjoy these advantages, [...]

There are moments when the truth dawns on you. Yes, you’ve made a truly bad hire.  And now you feel let-down, disappointed and, possibly, a bit worried. I’ve seen this time and time again with [...]

I was catching-up with a friend yesterday when he asked what we are up to at work. “We’re re-evaluating our mission,” I explained. He laughed. “I swear you told me that two years ago Lorne.  [...]

Any business owner worth their salt knows how important clean books and great, investment-ready accounting is to the health of their business. It’s the very heart of business growth! And this [...]

It’s the fourth quarter (Q4), can you even believe it? How time has flown by! The final quarter means that the holidays are right around the corner and then it’s basically 2022 and [...]

Planning is always key and this has never been more true than when it comes to dealing with your money! As a small business owner, the influx and outflux of capital is probably always on your [...]

Technology has facilitated it, the pandemic accelerated it, and organizations are dealing with it. It’s not news any more. Remote working is here to stay in some shape or form. What isn’t quite [...]

If you’ve reached a point in your journey where you want to sell your business or you’re gearing up to sell in a year or so, you’ll be faced with a couple of options. You could structure your [...]

What is a financial runaway? In the start-up world, the concept of your financial runway is used to assess the number of months until new capital needs to be raised (or you need to find more [...]