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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). You also talk about challenges to entrepreneurs.

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How an MBA Degree with a Concentration in Accounting Enhances Your Entrepreneurial Skills

The Startup Magazine

As important as MBA is to enhance entrepreneurship skills and capabilities, finance is equally crucial to sustaining businesses. If a business is not making a profit, the entrepreneur may need to manage business finances more efficiently. Moreover, you do not need a background in finance to qualify for the degree.

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What a CFO Can Do For Your Agency

Duct Tape Marketing

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. He’s also the CEO of Blumer CPAs where they serve as an advisory firm for the design marketing and creative agency services niches. You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. I appreciate it.

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10 Things the Bank Will Ask When You Need a Business Loan

Up and Running

I was really disappointed when I needed my company’s first commercial bank loan to finance receivables of more than $1 million—from well-known distributors no less—and we ended up having to sign a lien on our family home to get the loan. See Also Small Business Owners, Start Tracking Your Financial Metrics. Do you find this daunting?

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Business Valuation: Determining The Worth Of A Company

YoungUpstarts

Reasons for a business valuation run a gamut from selling the business due to retirement or health reasons to financing expansion efforts to adding shareholders to a buyout situation. Strohl, CPA and founder of Protax Consulting, a firm that offers tax services to expatriate Americans , “everyone wants to live someplace warm and beautiful.”

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5 Critical Things Entrepreneurs Need to Know about Managing Their Company's Finances.

Small Business Force

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. Learn to understand basic accounting and formalize sooner rather than later.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing?

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