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I was recently reminded yet again not to take things for granted and particularly simple things that have important repercussions. A good friend, intelligent and experienced business executive was making a rather emphatic point to his colleague t...
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Your chance to call yourself names! 2 Replies

Hi all, what's a good name for our first 100 members? Founders (yawn), warriors (:|), centurians, explorers, ... We'll think up a good prize for the winner. No really, we will.

Started by Mark Robilliard in Participant experiences. Last reply by Juli Evans Nov 16.

Peter Frampton

PowerPoint... the bully in the room 1 Reply

We have strong feelings about PowerPoint at Accounting Comes Alive. Mostly we are averse to it. PowerPoint brings new meaning to the 'bully' in bully pulpit. It allows a presenter to overbearingly ...

Started by Peter Frampton in Participant experiences. Last reply by Mark Robilliard May 22.

Peter Frampton

The entrenched social misunderstandings that give us our mission

What Color Accounting is doing in the world is having people see their reality more clearly. You can't manage or create anew your financial situation if you can't clearly see what it is. You can't ...

Started by Peter Frampton in Participant experiences May 13.

 

Welcome to your financial literacy community center

This is a 'friends of Color Accounting' community network - see top menu for more info - where the main topics are accounting literacy and business acumen.

We will donate $100 to The Fred Hollows Foundation (see the video) as soon as we hit our first 100 members. We're nearly half way there!

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Mark Robilliard

Fundamentals are called that for a reason.

I was recently reminded yet again not to take things for granted and particularly simple things that have important repercussions.

A good friend, intelligent and experienced business executive was making a rather emphatic point to his colleague that their gross profit margin (GPM) was the same thing as their average mark-up percentage – it isn’t. What is interesting though, is that percentages often seem to catch people unawares, and sometimes with devastating consequences.

Let’s clarify.

Mar… Continue

Posted by Mark Robilliard on November 19, 2009 at 5:53am

Howard Strang

Health Savings

I'm looking for advice setting up an HSA or Health Savings Account. This is my first year having company medical insurance and I'm trying to find the most effective way to set up a budget and… Continue

Posted by Howard Strang on November 12, 2009 at 1:28pm — 1 Comment

Mark Robilliard

Cash flows are critical – worship them

Rapid growth is good, right? Right?

It’s the ultimate entrepreneurial dream. You start a business, struggle for a bit to get the business model right, then whammo – it takes off.

Sales are growing almost daily it seems and demand is strong. Let’s allow some more credit (sales) to really ride this demand. Now we need more inventory – come on suppliers, we need it yesterday. Pay a bit more to get it quickly, it doesn’t matter. We need some more room too, get hold of something. We need som… Continue

Posted by Mark Robilliard on August 24, 2009 at 2:49pm

Mark Robilliard

How many other things are we missing?

ATTRIBUTION: The following blog is repeated here with permission from the writer Louis Coutts who you can contact at couttslm@bigpond.com for comment or to join his mailing list.
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This is a great story received from my friend Neil Thomas

Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their w… Continue

Posted by Mark Robilliard on August 19, 2009 at 11:28am

Peter Frampton

'Root Cause Analysis' and Business Dullness

When I was at the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) International Conference this summer I attended a very interesting talk about analysing the root cause of things that happen. It's a common sense field of enquiry, one that we consciously or unconsciously engage every day when we work out why things happen. But it was a very useful reminder to look further back for more fundamental causes of what we observe. The title Root Cause Analysis was new to me but one that I a… Continue

Posted by Peter Frampton on July 28, 2009 at 12:33am

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