Why a Good Budget Is Essential
A budget is an essential piece to building a strong financial backbone to any company. While they are useful in...
Business
Is Activity-Based Costing Better?
Generally speaking, I agree with the statement, “Activity-based costing does a better job of allocating both direct and indirect costs...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Break-Even Analysis
According to Harvard Business School (2004), a break-even analysis is a financial tool that examines a company’s revenue and costs...
Why a Dollar Today Is Worth More than a Dollar Tomorrow
You hear the term 'time value of money' everywhere in business, but it is not as clear-cut as it might...
How Capital Structure Theory Changed the Way We Do Business
Capital structure is the method by which a company finances its operations and growth (Tuovila, 2019). Whether it has an...
Is Your Capital Structure Future-Proof?
A company funds its operations and growth by raising capital, which can be achieved by issuing either debt (in the...
The Science and Art of Finance
If you ask the folks at Investopedia (Kenton, 2019), they will tell you that the main goal of corporate finance...
The Four Eras of Leadership Theory
The last century saw an evolution of leadership theories grouped into four eras (Daft, 2008). The first era featured ‘Great...
Drucker’s Effective Executive Is as Timely as It Is Timeless
Drucker’s Effective Executive was one of the first great business books (Dzombak, 2014), and has remained significant for generations. Part...
Why Emotional Intelligence Is Anything But Emotional
One of the more prominent currents of late leadership theory is based on Emotional Intelligence, also known as Emotional IQ...
