The jobs are completed and you have sent your invoices out. Yet you continue to have invoices unpaid and can’t seem to track down where the payment is. Who has it? The insurance company, the insured, the mortgage company? 

According to the IRS, two-thirds of all businesses fail in their first five years. One of the major reasons this happens is not from a lack of business, but from a lack of cash. 

Three quarters of 2017 are in the books. The final quarter is when you should be focusing on your plan for the coming year. If you didn’t already start in October, now is the time. 

Whether it’s education, sports, or business we need to know how well we’re doing. We need to be able to measure performance. 

The first reason is because a lot of you did not do a budget for this year and maybe not for all of the previous years that you have ever been in business!