Business Growth – Three Principles for Minimizing Pain While Realizing Gain In business, as with most endeavors, growth is generally a good thing. But what growth looks and feels like can differ quite dramatically from one company to the next. For some, growth is a rocky road where owners and execs are often surprised by …
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Restoring and Ensuring Effective Nonprofit Finance Practices Decades ago, healthcare trailblazer Sister Irene Kraus moved her mantra of “No Margin. No Mission.” into the limelight. Underscoring this was her ahead-of-the-curve understanding that mission-centered organizations must have strong finance and compliance-related practices and expertise in place to be able to provide services in line with their …
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Prioritizing People in Manufacturing – Why it Matters? As the saying goes in manufacturing, “if you don’t have the people, you don’t have the products.” While it’s unlikely that one could find an executive that disagrees with this sentiment, manufacturing entities nonetheless often operate in isolated silos with inadequate communication and interaction between the production …
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Navigating a New Era of Retail – Three Financial and Operational Factors The market and operating environments of retail businesses have undergone dramatic transformations since the turn of the millennium; transformations that accelerated significantly more with the outset of the COVID pandemic. While some retailers have navigated these shifts to a point of better business …
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The R&D Tax Credit – Does Your Business Qualify? Businesses never want to leave money on the table. But when it comes to the R&D Tax Credit, some unknowingly do just that. These oversights often stem from confusion about the rules that govern the R&D Tax Credit or a belief that the credit is not …
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Just as no one could have predicted the disruptions of the past decade, no one can predict with absolute certainty what the future of work will look like. Emerging trends and technologies do, however, give us an indication of how to think about and prepare for that future. Is your business ready for it? A …
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With the current uncertainty in the market, have you taken steps to prepare for various contingencies? Are you confident in your plan? The following articles from our consulting team may be helpful to you as you review your own checklist: How to Fight Inflation: 14 Tips for Business Owners Inflation remains high despite the best …
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Building Blocks and Best Practices for Driving Business Value Business valuation is not an original or uncommon topic. It is, however, one that business owners and leaders should be far more focused on and reminded of often. That’s because many who start a business don’t always fully consider business value when developing their original strategy …
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Pamela Hooper has joined the vcfo team to serve as a Senior People Operations / HR Consultant for clients in the Austin and Central Texas areas. Pamela is a solutions-oriented senior people operations executive with more than 25 years of experience in human resources. She is a true HR generalist with an extensive background in …
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vcfo welcomes Martha Steele to the Austin team as a Senior People Operations / HR Consultant. Martha is a Senior People Operations Professional with more than 20 years of experience in human resources. She has particular expertise in implementing best business practices, reducing costs, improving recruiting, training, and retention programs, as well as redesigning benefits …