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Get Ready For Your Audit Team to Arrive

Are you and your business ready for your audit team to arrive?  I mean really ready. Being well-prepared for your external audit team is critical to ensuring an efficient audit. Beyond providing adequate workspace and access to information and personnel, there is advance ground work to consider.  Before the audit process even begins, the first […]

Closing the Leadership Gap

Increasingly, the “in” boss can be found sitting in a cubicle or an open office alongside his employees. Among the cubicles, the organization is flat and everyone is more or less equal. “Just treat me as another office mate,” he appeals — an open, easily accessible team player. But are these new cube mates really

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Going for the Gold

What do these things have in common? Social Security. Disability. Windmills. Food stamps. A state’s low taxes. Big contributions to politicians. These are linked by a basic ingredient of our nature. We go for the gold. What prompted this thought was the number of Americans who recently signed up for Social Security disability payments. As

Tax Filing Follow-Through

At the risk of sounding like a CPA, I advise you not to fall into the trap of complacency now that the April tax deadline is behind you. Your attention is still needed.  Whether you are looking to next year, or still gathering data from the past year, there are important points to consider. Filing your

Does intuition lead to fuzzy decision-making?

In past columns I have asked, “Who does the best thinking in your organization?” The purpose of this question is to focus on two different and yet important types of thinking — creative thinking that generates new ideas that can be exploited for the growth and prosperity of the business, and analytic or critical thinking

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