Late-paying customers cost your company money by tying up capital in what is essentially an interest-free loan. Since 1984, Deborah Brooks has been providing contract and temporary workers for a variety of customers, and since 1989, she has been doing it through her own company, Arose Recruiting Company, Inc. of Newport Beach, California. She specializes [...]
Doing more work in the same length of time or using lower-priced materials are productivity improvements that can boost a company’s financial situation. Jim Winterle was a well-respected broker of mail services for major package delivery companies, when some of his big customers asked why he didn’t start a company to consolidate the international mail [...]
In the purchase of a private company, the seller often provides some of the financing. In the early 1980s, the trucking industry was struggling with the impact of federal deregulation and a poor economy. The owner of a ten-employee repair shop for truck trailers in St. Charles, Missouri, wanted to sell the business, but not [...]