Bookkeeping for Restaurants: Simplify Your Finances and Focus on Success
Running a restaurant is a balancing act. Besides providing meals that bring repeat business and loyal fans, you manage inventory, juggle payroll, and watch slim profit margins. The financial side can feel overwhelming, but it does not have to be. With the right restaurant-specific bookkeeping strategies, you will feel less
How Performance-Based Pay Can Transform Productivity and Workplace Culture – Michael Fortinberry
Can performance-based pay outperform the traditional hourly wage model? And what does that mean for productivity, culture, and ultimately, business value?
On this episode of Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder, Michael Fortenberry, co-founder of Protiv, explains how shifting from time-based pay to performance-based compensation is changing the game—particularly for contractors and hourly workforces.
Michael shares how Protiv’s model brings
Medicare Extrapolation Audits: A Practical, Methodology-Focused Response
Introduction
CMS program-integrity contractors increasingly rely on data analytics and statistical sampling to identify suspected improper payments. When an audit uses extrapolation, a small set of claim denials can be projected to a much larger ‘universe’ of claims, producing a repayment demand that is disproportionate to the sampled dollars. Effective audit defense therefore depends on (1) operational readiness to respond
Understanding Acceptable Risk: A Reality Check for Today’s Homebuyers
Over the years, I’ve guided countless buyers through the landmines of purchasing a home — and helped them understand which risks are worth taking, and which ones are deal breakers.
I’ve advised buyers to walk away from homes they fell in love with because of major structural issues. And I’ve urged others not to jeopardize a great house over small
4 Ways to Generate Clients FAST by Networking
Of course, business networking is not a quick fix. Financial advisors, insurance agents, attorneys, and other service providers that need to sell something know that nothing happens overnight. That said, these four approaches if done correctly will absolutely generate more business.
Be Clear about Your Target Market
As in crystal clear. Establish a specialty industry, profession, market segment, or niche.
How Leadership Principles Help Startup Founders Build Successful Companies – Angelo Valletta
Leadership and innovation are closely tied – especially when building companies that create jobs, scale new ideas, and strengthen local economies.
In this episode of Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder, Dave speaks with Angelo Valletta, President and CEO of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania and author of The Seven R’s of Leadership and Life. Angelo shares lessons
Big Banks Said It Couldn’t Be Done. We Proved Them Wrong.
THE SCENARIOAn unmarried gentleman had been investing in real estate for years. Every year or two, he purchased a single family home in his neighborhood and rented it out. Even though he owned several investment properties, he himself still lived in a rented apartment. Now, he was ready to buy a home for his own use.
THE ISSUEBecause he owned
Tax Free Throw™
Are you a business owner or paid board member who has not yet filed your 2025 tax return or are on extension? If so, there’s still time to save BIG with a Tax Free ThrowTM.Thanks to the SECURE Act, high-income business owners and paid board members can retroactively adopt split-funded cash balance plans – even after year-end. This unique strategy
Your Agent Told You To Get Pre-Approved. Yet Most Buyers Do It Wrong! Here’s What Nobody Explains…
Your Agent Told You to Get Pre Approved… But Didn’t Tell You This!
If you’re thinking about buying a home this year, the first step your real estate agent will tell you is: “Get pre‑approved.”
And they’re right — except most buyers still go about it the wrong way.
Here’s what almost nobody explains…
In today’s market, not all pre‑approvals
The Coming Economy & the Case for Going Low-Cost
The Coming Economy & the Case for Going Low-Cost
This morning’s jobs report just changed the conversation.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released February’s numbers today, and they weren’t pretty. The U.S. economy shed 92,000 jobs last month, a stunning miss against economist expectations of adding 50,000. The unemployment rate climbed to 4.4%. December was quietly revised from a gain to a