Business budgeting, planning, and forecasting may seem like a specific set of action steps that never vary. In truth, there are trends in this area of accounting and finance just as there are trends and new approaches in other business disciplines. The Sage Global Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting survey explores these trends and shares […]

Is business succession planning part of your C-suite conversation? If not, it should be. According to the Harvard Business Review, most boards are unprepared for leadership transitions. Such preparation takes years, not months, and it’s inevitable. People retire or choose to work for other companies. When that happens, companies that are unprepared for leadership succession […]

It was another bad month for unemployment: November was the 11th straigth month of job losses and some 560k jobs were shed during the month. Even small business, long a driver of employment adds in the economy, dropped some 80k jobs for the month. What’s to celebrate with all this dismal news, you wonder? Why […]