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Ready, Set, your Budget: Maximizing Speed

Alright, it's time for the fourth phase of your budget! In a sprint, this phase is maximizing speed. For your budget, it's maximizing performance! By this point, you should have...
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Ready, Set, your Budget: Transition

The third phase of a sprint is Transition. In your budget process, it's time to transition to expenses! Review your monthly P&L from 2014 to analyze your expenses. Determine which...
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Did You Know: Veteran Business Owners

According to the SBA, veteran business owners are responsible for nearly one in ten small businesses in the U.S. and employ nearly six million workers.
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Ready, Set, your Budget: Acceleration

The second phase of a 100m sprint is acceleration, picking up speed. In your budget, the second step is to set your budget for sales and cost of goods sold,...
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Ready, Set, your Budget: The Start

The first step to starting the budget process is to review your current year financials. To do this, run a monthly P&L (profit and loss statement) of revenue and expenses...
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Ready, Set, your Budget

It’s that time of year again! And, no, I’m not talking about the holidays. I’m talking about year-end! It’s time to start thinking about the new year. Where will your...
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Meet Our Team: Holly Hansen

Holly is a staff accountant on one of the client service teams at Fortiviti. Prior to Fortiviti, Holly spent a combined 11 years working for nXio and Culligan in accounting...
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KVC Health Systems: KVC Kansas

This month we are giving back to KVC Kansas. KVC Kansas is responsible for the care of all children served by the Kansas Department for Children and Families in Kansas...
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Did You Know: Use Tax

Use tax is a tax charged on items that you purchase for use without paying sales tax. In most cases, this is charged on items because you purchased an item...
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Trick or Treat: Halloween Spending on the Rise

It seems Halloween is not just for kids anymore. Adults are joining in on the fun and having a significant impact on the economics of the holiday. Halloween expenditures are...
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