Finance & Succession Planning

When You Love Your Business, But Hate Numbers

To be successful as a business leader, you have to have a grasp of the basics.

Published: 11.06.20 By Shane Rau

Wealth Rule No. 5: Monitor Your Cash

Published: 10.08.20 By Ruth King

Wealth Rule No. 4: Build a Great Culture

Published: 09.01.20 By Ruth King

Beware the PPP Loan!

Published: 08.10.20 By Ruth King

Monitor Profitability and Cash

You need to create your updated P&L to show at least a few dollars of profit at the end of the year.

Published: 07.09.20 By Ruth King

The Wealth-Building Potential of a Powerful Personal Brand

Self-made billionaires almost universally have well-established and powerful personal brands that they use opportunistically to generate even greater success.

Published: 06.08.20 By Keven Prather

Learn 5 Ways to Generate Cash Now by Ruth King

Many people are home, and want to get their systems ready for summer now.

Published: 05.01.20 By Ruth King

Learn how to safeguard your wealth with these tips.

Exploiters are professionals who recommend aggressive variations of financial solutions and strategies.

Published: 05.01.20 By Keven Prather

Profit Law No. 3 - Build your maintenance program here.

A maintenance program can help your company in the long haul. Learn more in this valuable article from HVACR Business Magazine.

Published: 04.01.20 By Ruth King

With Success Comes Enemies

With success come enemies, so get comfortable with others resenting you or viewing you negatively.

Published: 04.01.20 By Keven Prather

Ruth King -Separate Business Expenses from Personal Expenses

You can enjoy the fruits of your labor. Just don’t do it to the detriment of your company.

Published: 03.01.20 By Ruth King

Wills and Trusts: The Foundations of Your Rock-Solid Estate Plan-HVACR

As with any decision, there are both positives and negatives to a will. The benefits of writing a will far outweigh the drawbacks.

Published: 03.01.20 By Keven Prather

Tips from Ruth King - Wealth Rule 1: Pay Attention to Your Balance Sheet

The total balance on the accounts receivable and accounts payable aging reports should match the values printed on the balance sheet.

Published: 02.01.20 By Ruth King

Educate Inheritors About Wealth Planning & Managing Financial Assets

The heads of many of the wealthiest families are concerned about their heirs’ ability to smartly deal with the money and business assets they will one day inherit. This is …

Published: 02.01.20 By Keven Prather

Two Steps to Help You Grow and Build Wealth

Accurate books mean better decisions about your business future.

Published: 01.01.20 By Ruth King

To Eliminate Estate and Gift Taxes, Feel the Freeze!

Using a trust to freeze the value of your company can help you pass on sizable sums to your heirs — free of estate taxes.

Published: 01.01.20 By Keven Prather

Avoid the Pitfalls of Short Term Working Capital

It’s vital to know your options and plan for the future to obtain financing that will not constrict the cash flow of your business.

Published: 11.01.19 By Brandon G. Jacob

Recurring Revenue is Your Rocket Fuel

Whether residential or commercially focused, all companies need a thriving maintenance program.

Published: 11.01.19 By Ruth King

You Can’t Take a Percentage to the Bank

What matters is the bottom line dollars or that the gross margins are consistent.

Published: 10.01.19 By Ruth King

Inventory is a Bet

Profitable contractors do two things extremely well: Manage labor and manage inventory.

Published: 09.01.19 By Ruth King

Review Timely, Accurate Financial Statements Each Month

Once owners are in the habit of receiving financial statements and asking good questions about them, they get more accurate.

Published: 08.01.19 By Ruth King

How to Tell if Your Financial Statements are Wrong

Accurate financial statements are critical to ensure that the business is profitable or to give owners the information they need to take steps to make it profitable.

Published: 07.01.19 By Ruth King

Profits and Cash are Not the Same

Collect for profitable work quickly, pay the bills associated with that job and stay solvent.

Published: 06.01.19 By Ruth King

Balance Sheets are More Important than Your P&L

Balance sheets track profits and losses from the time the business started until the day it’s sold.

Published: 05.01.19 By Ruth King

You’re Headed Toward Your Goal — Continuous Profits are Critical

One of the biggest keys to having a break even or profitable first quarter is your attitude.

Published: 04.01.19 By Ruth King

7 Essential Accounting Practices for Your Business

Familiarize yourself with your financial statements and have a good understanding of your company’s accounting.

Published: 03.01.19 By James Leichter

You’re Headed Toward Your Goal — Know Your True Costs

By tracking all of your costs you can make decisions about whether the costs are acceptable or whether they should be cut.

Published: 03.01.19 By Ruth King

Prepare for Lift Off — Live, Eat and Breathe Net Profit Per Hour

If you track by net profit percentage, you’re fooling yourself.

Published: 02.01.19 By Ruth King

Rocket Profits — Where Do You Want to Go?

Decide what you want your goals to be, why you want to achieve them and get your employees on board.

Published: 01.01.19 By Ruth King

Three Essential Functions, Part 2 — Service Profitability

Your service rate would be $140/hr, assuming you could bill 100 percent of a service technician’s time.

Published: 11.01.18 By Ruth King

Three Essential Business Functions, Part 1 — Maintenance Profitability

The foundation of every HVACR company is a thriving maintenance program.

Published: 10.01.18 By Ruth King

What To Do When You Can’t Make Payroll

Almost every business runs into cash flow problems at some point. It rarely happens but it does happen.

Published: 09.01.18 By Ruth King

Determine if Your Fall Advertising Activities are Profitable

Before you make any advertising purchase, determine whether you can at least break even on that purchase or earn your desired net profit on that purchase.

Published: 08.01.18 By Ruth King

The $99 Maintenance Agreement Too Good to be True

You can’t do a good job and stay in business at that price if you don’t sell something during the maintenance visits.

Published: 07.01.18 By Ruth King

Seven Ways to Have a Profitably Busy Summer

These seven procedures help you have a profitably busy summer so that you have cash to survive the slower times of the year.

Published: 06.01.18 By Ruth King

‘I Made a Profit — Where’s the Cash?’

There are times your company shows a profit, yet you have problems scraping enough cash together for payroll.

Published: 04.01.18 By Ruth King