The purpose of audit planning is to fully understand the business of the company being audited and the operating environment. Audit planning will also establish and notate the major audit risks within the company—essentially to give a heads up to the auditor so they can properly assess the company.

Those of us who work with sales organizations, especially with senior leaders, have an interesting vantage point of the ritual of sales, and how it unfolds in different organizations. From this perch we get to see these people in both “buying” and “selling” mode, and with that it has become very clear that with few [...]

Sometimes it’s difficult to put together a loan officer marketing plan to attract the attention of real estate agents. Sometimes we tend to go back to the same tools we’d used over and over – and sometimes we overlook opportunities to make real estate agents our biggest fans.

A product consists roughly of two main elements. The function of the product – what it does or is capable of doing and the usability of the same: how it does it. Product developments starts often focusing on the first element. Compare for example the evolution of the windows operating system. When the first windows [...]

Getting a government grant can be a tricky business, especially if you don’t know how to go about it. Billions of dollars are given away each year to businesses, home owners and people in the educational field. People starting small business is good for the economy so the government is willing to put a lot [...]