Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

I started as a CPA back in 1982, and was always pretty handy around a spreadsheet (even when they were just 12-column green pads). This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e.

Goal 283

Goal CPA BHAG Kaizen 283

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2011

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.

Finance 50

Finance Resources CPA Reference 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you want to expand or improve your operations, then reinvesting some of your profits is a sound way to grow your business. Most importantly, your CPA should be more than just a number cruncher. Putting money back into the company.

CPA 51

CPA Long-term Short-term Finance 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

After all, no matter how green a company's operations and supply chains are, political efforts aimed at weakening environmental laws and regulations can have far greater environmental impact. public companies — their CPA-Ziplin Index — to Newsweek's environmental transparency scores.

CPA 8

CPA Supply Chain Politics Policies 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations.

CPA 192

CPA COO CFO Leadership 192

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2013

Only after a deep dive into the data did I discover, to my surprise, that we were operating under the wrong assumption. My father was a CPA and amateur poker player. At the end of that stretch he felt duty bound, as a CPA, to calculate his performance. Why hadn''t those investments produced better results?

CPA 8

CPA Retail Innovation Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. Companies usually manage bribery and corruption risk through a mix of internal processes, certification requirements, and basic good practices throughout their operations — including with suppliers and vendors.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Having practiced as a CPA for a “Big 8” (now “Big 4”) firm, as well as teaching tax, law and accounting in law school, graduate school and university, Steve has served as a legal analyst for top media outlets, where he appears daily on the radio.

Supply Chain 66

Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 66

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

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.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2019

Having practiced as a CPA for a “Big 8” (now “Big 4”) firm, as well as teaching tax, law and accounting in law school, graduate school and university, Steve has served as a legal analyst for top media outlets, where he appears daily on the radio.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present. As an idea, strategic intent is about setting a bold and ambitious goal, out of all proportion to a firm's current resources and capabilities.

Goal 9

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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.

Budgeting 256

Budgeting CPA Maturity Open-book 256

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I adore my CPA and bookkeeper and we strive to be generous with what we have. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. It’s massively life-giving to our marriage. What is that!?” As a man thinketh, right?

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. That stodgy old school types of businesses can't benefit from this (think CPA, Insurance, Banking), to name a few. In some cases, they stand to gain the most. (No No answer) 56.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Adding a profile on Facebook has little to no impact on Facebook's operating costs. Instead, each possesses a wealth of user information to target ads to individual consumers on a cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-action (CPA) basis. The extra search on Google, essentially, is immaterial to Google's economics.

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

According to the 2015 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability, half of the companies in the S&P 500 Index disclose some or all of their contributions of corporate funds to candidates, parties, and committees or have policies not to make such contributions.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8