Now is the time of year when many of us sit down to finalize our business plans for 2018 and beyond. Like most professionals, CPAs will say they want to hit X amount of revenue or land X new clients in the coming year. But those numbers are just a byproduct of how you do business and the team you
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Spreadsheets are still sucking the life out of almost every modern accounting process. And, like leeches, spreadsheets are highly unpredictable.
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Before we dive into whether this was a sound strategic move, it's worth noting that Walmart handled the delivery of this news rather poorly. Reports of the closures were swirling online for hours before the company sent out a press release about the move. (The Sam's Club Twitter account had earlier
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A day after embarking on a pay hike, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is taking steps to shake up management at thousands of its stores. The world's biggest retailer is removing about 3,500 store co-managers, a salaried role that acts as a lieutenant underneath each store manager, according to people familiar with
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Legendary oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is closing his hedge fund, saying oil trading has lost its luster. Instead, the onetime Texas oil wildcatter wrote in a LinkedIn post that he wants to invest in “personal passions like promoting unbridled entrepreneurship and philanthropic and political endeavors.”.
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