Finance & Succession Planning

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

Published: 03.01.20 By Ruth King

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

Published: 03.01.20 By Keven Prather

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

Try a New Pricing Level, Improve Your Bottom Line

Add your overhead cost per hour and your direct cost per hour. This is the absolute minimum price you must charge your customers.

Published: 03.01.18 By Ruth King

Build Your Pricing Around Net Profit Per Hour

The key to pricing using net profit per hour is that you must estimate labor hours correctly.

Published: 02.01.18 By Ruth King

Vanity Metrics vs. Clarity Metrics

There are many metrics to track, however, none are as important to profitability than current ratio, acid test, productivity ratio and net profit per hour.

Published: 01.01.18 By Ruth King

Five Activities that will Make a Difference in 2018

Profitability is the key to survival. Here’s five things you can do to ensure profitability in the New Year.

Published: 12.01.17 By Ruth King

Keep the Honest People Honest

Should you prosecute? It depends on how much hassle you’re willing to put up with during the investigation and court cases.

Published: 11.01.17 By Ruth King

Do You Have a Loyal Bookkeeper? Watch out!

You have the perfect employee: hard working, dedicated and accurate. But do you? Here’s how to spot a red flag.

Published: 10.03.17 By Ruth King

Beware of Sub-Contracted Commercial Work

Bankruptcy court has the right to request return of payments made to vendors.

Published: 09.01.17 By Ruth King

If it Seems Too Good to be True, Then it Probably is

Your interview process must include a background check, especially for the bookkeeper.

Published: 08.01.17 By Ruth King

Nice is Nice, Until it Costs You Big

Be forewarned: the Department of Labor says you have to pay for meeting time and “gab time.”

Published: 07.05.17 By Ruth King