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The Power of Incentives

The Power of Incentives

“Call it what you will, incentives get people to work harder.”  -Nikita KhrushchevEconomists sum up the ...
The Cost of Not Knowing What it Costs

The Cost of Not Knowing What it Costs

 Traditional accounting measures the profit and loss of your entire business - the performance of the ...
The Art of Cash Flow

The Art of Cash Flow

Everyone loves cash, but few distributors focus specifically on improving cash flow. The focus is on sales growth ...
The Science of Profitability

The Science of Profitability

In the late 1800s Wallace Wattles wrote a book called The Science of Getting Rich. Wattles lays out a system to ...
How to Create Business Value

How to Create Business Value

Humans were put on this planet to create things. You were put here to create business value, you just don’t know ...
The Data Management Checklist

The Data Management Checklist

It’s painful to have an expensive route accounting software and then fill it up with dirty data. Your data is your ...
Put Numbers in Pictures

Put Numbers in Pictures

The finance people love their black and white reports. Each month they bang out grisly, unreadable financial ...
The Language of Money

The Language of Money

As business people, we place a huge emphasis on making money and turning a profit. However, we rarely teach anyone ...
The Daily Numbers

The Daily Numbers

We all like to wake up to a fresh newspaper in the morning. Pour a cup of coffee, unfold that paper, and dive into ...
Three Keys to Perfect SOPs

Three Keys to Perfect SOPs

Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, writes in his book How to Fail at Almost Everything and ...
Grow Sales AND Margins

Grow Sales AND Margins

Distributors measure success in terms of sales volume. We compare notes on what brands were up or down, what ...
Finance is Your Hammer

Finance is Your Hammer

Finance is a system of creating money. It provides x-ray vision into our business to help us identify where we are ...