by Greg Herring | Feb 5, 2019 | Reporting
Originally published in November of 2016. Updated in February of 2019. Recently, I marveled at a management team as I reviewed their company’s financial reports. The company had a five-year growth rate (CAGR) of 28%. That growth rate is remarkable by itself, but it...
by Greg Herring | Oct 23, 2017 | Reporting
Preparing a budget does not have to be laborious. I hated wasted time; I also hate spending a lot of time on budgets. That view might strike some of you as strange given that it comes from a CFO (Chief Financial Officer). But the truth is that budgets do not have to...
by Greg Herring | Sep 25, 2017 | Reporting
I hate wasted time. How about you? I always seem to have more things to do with my time than time to do them. I figure I could fill two or three lifetimes with what I would like to do—in business and for pleasure. It is that time of year where every good company is...
by Greg Herring | Apr 5, 2017 | Reporting
This post is the first in a series I will be writing that is focused on the lawn care and landscape industry. Since I have worked with several landscape companies as clients, I am sharing some of my lessons learned that are specific to that industry. Today’s...
by Greg Herring | Dec 12, 2016 | Reporting
To most people, financial reports are just numbers on a page. Hopefully, my recent blog posts have convinced you that those numbers also tell a story of your business and show the hidden power behind your data. I confess that I am a “get it done” person. My preferred...
by Greg Herring | Sep 27, 2016 | Reporting
The Basic Formula to Predict the Future In the last blog post, I wrote about the value of being able to predict the future in business. For revenue, predicting the future starts with a system to monitor the journey of prospects becoming customers. But it does not end...
