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Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear

Strategy Driven

William and John arm leaders with the knowledge of what is in each financial statement, how statements relate to each other, and, more importantly, how business operations impact reported financial outcomes. Likewise, it is critical that these leaders be able to draw conclusions about business operations from their financial statements.

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How I Learned the Hard Way That Aging Technology Is Expensive

Harvard Business Review

Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120. I figured these computers couldn't possibly depreciate much further.

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Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely

Terry Starbucker

A brilliant (but oh so eccentric) entrepreneur who had already amassed a large fortune was looking for more, and tapped me to oversee the operations of his latest acquisition.

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