Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health (Hardcover)

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Combining financial savvy and fiduciary wisdom, this book can help managers and directors work together to improve the financial health of the companies they serve. --Alexandra R. Lajoux, Chief Knowledge Officer National Association of Corporate Directors

Combining financial savvy and fiduciary wisdom, this book can help managers and directors work together to improve the financial health of the companies they serve. --Alexandra R. Lajoux, Chief Knowledge Officer National Association of Corporate Directors<br /><br />FiscalDoctor reminds us that a business is like a human being a company must identify its vital organs, monitor its health and take corrective action when problems are found. By following Patterson's practical advice offered in this book, companies will get just what they need to become fiscally fit a clean bill of health. --Ralph M. Norwood, President Navigator Capital Advisors, LLC former VP/Treasurer of Polaroid Corporation<br /><br />The smart company is the one that will put these best practices into action and go full speed ahead all the way to the bank. --James Kristie, Editor and Associate Publisher, Directors & Boards

The smart company is the one that will put these best practices into action and go full speed ahead all the way to the bank. --James Kristie, Editor and Associate Publisher, Directors & Boards

Product Description

How Fiscally Fit Is Your Company? Just Say Ah! In Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough, Gary Patterson details for the first time the proven methods he has used to successfully treat companies of all sizes across a range of industries from a startup purchased by IBM to a public technology company sold to eBay to an Inc. 500 consumer goods manufacturer to an international Fortune 500 firm. Offering tips to stanch the internal financial bleeding and providing a daily regimen for ensuring your company's financial health, the FiscalDoctor's prescription is clear: Give your company an overall checkup to gauge its condition. Diagnose problems by reviewing your financials and operations. Implement a treatment plan using Best Practices from world-class successful companies. Create a wellness program to prevent future fiscal crises. Using the FiscalDoctor's Best Practices, the high-growth company you own, manage or direct can avoid unnecessary increased expenses, revenue shortfalls, employee layoffs, missed bonuses or broken dreams. So open this book and say Profit.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: FiscalClinic Communications; 1 edition (June 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 098224150X
• ISBN-13: 978-0982241509
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,145,034 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The pulse of your business, August 25, 2009

By	Alice Grace (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

"Stick Out Your Balance Sheet" has made me, a small business owner, aware of the financial reporting and information I should be regularly looking at. In the midst of business activities and deadlines it's easy to neglect the pulse of your business. While I have been vaguely aware of needing regular information flow on the financial health of my business, I wasn't quite sure how to get started. Witty, concise and to the point, Gary Patterson's book explains complex business processes in a simple language and raises awareness of the crucial information flow that may be missing in your company. It has jolted my head out of the sand and motivated me to establish regular reporting on the financial health of my business.

5.0 out of 5 stars The best prescription for the common and uncommon financial cough, October 30, 2009

By	Lt. Col. Bob Weinstein, USAR-ret. "Lt. Col. B... (Fort Lauderdale, FL) - See all my reviews

There is a lot of talk out there about health and health care. There is not enough talk about prevention. Gary Patterson's book, "Stick Out You Balance Sheet and Cough," offers great financial disease prevention and get's right down to business with determining just what is causing that financial ailment and how to fix it. Mr. Patterson gets to work with his Path to Profitability Checklist which includes a checkup, diagnosis, treatment and wellness phase. He delivers all the tools necessary to put a small and medium sized business in the position to take back financial control and increase profitability. His book lives up to the claim of delivering the best practices for long-term business health.

5.0 out of 5 stars Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough, October 16, 2009

By	Michael Monji "Tree Whisperer" (Bakersfield, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Holy Cow! what a great book on insuring that your business will succeed. Gary has done an outstanding job in explaining what every business person should know in order to be successful. He explains the do's and don'ts of a successful business. If you own a business you need this book. It will prevent you from making the mistakes most businesses make. On a scale of 1 to 5, I give this book a 10. Great job Gary.

Michael Monji