by Patty Lawrence | Entrepreneurship, Growth
Are you a weekend warrior? Let me explain what I mean, because a weekend warrior shows up differently for everyone, but the energy is the same. For me, it’s tennis. It’s a passion I carve out time for on evenings and weekends. It’s not my main job or...
by Patty Lawrence | Entrepreneurship, Leadership
The first entrepreneur I knew was my father. As the proud owner of a water well-drilling business, Dad worked long hours to provide for his family. But it wasn’t until I started working in his office as a teenager that I learned the truth that would define my life’s...
by Patty Lawrence | Employee Management, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, Leadership, Uncategorized
Let me tell you a story. I started working with a client (we’ll call her June) who has a degreed accountant doing her bookkeeping and an outside tax person handling tax accounting. We started doing some cleanup work reconfiguring the balance sheet accounts and income...
by Patty Lawrence | Accounting Services, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, Uncategorized
A few years ago, I had a call with a prospect who didn’t know what the heck her controller did for eight hours a day. End-of-month reports were constantly late, special requests were never completed, and projects – well, forget even asking about those. She was totally...
by Patty Lawrence | Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Financial Analysis
I’m a hypocrite. There. I said it. I’m not proud of branding myself that way, but there’s good intent behind it in this case. You see, when I talk to overwhelmed entrepreneurs, I’m telling them – as are others – to outsource things...
by Patty Lawrence | Cash Flow, CFO Services, Entrepreneurship
Just because the world has slowed down significantly for businesses this year does not mean it has stopped entirely. In fact, lots of businesses that have been intentional about managing their resources during the pandemic are still growing! Recently, I was talking to...
