Charles Schulz

Growing Your Business Beyond its First Three Years

My last article touched on financial considerations for business owners surviving their first three years in business. In the piece, I pointed out a few important areas of focus: growth, monitoring financial statements, managing debt, learning income trends, keeping cash on hand, and holding the appropriate types of insurance as a few items that should be on the radar screen…

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Charles Schulz

Surviving Your First Three Years as a Small Business Owner

Entrepreneurs and business owners have a great deal of my respect. There are obvious hurdles to starting your own business, and while some of these are easy – such as identifying your passions and dreaming of success – many are difficult. Finding the capital to start your business, choosing the right legal structure, convincing people to work with you (or…

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Matt Haywood

The Top Five Things to Consider when Reviewing your 401(k) Provider

As an employer, you may have opted to offer your employees a 401(k) plan as an added benefit for recruitment and retention purposes. Yet what many companies don’t realize is that you should be regularly reviewing your plan to ensure that it continues to be the right fit. I recently wrote an article about your responsibilities as a plan sponsor,…

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Matt Haywood

What Employers Need to Know about Their Company’s Retirement Plan

There once was a time when offering your employees a 401k or other company-sponsored retirement savings plan was a nice perk. Maybe your company offered one, or maybe it didn’t. Today, however, a good 401k plan can serve as a valuable tool for attracting (and retaining) talent, and provides nice benefits for your employees. That being the case, you may…

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