"After using Financial Scoreboard™ -- the
way people think now is that they are automatically thinking
in a more balanced, or what I would call holistic approach
to our whole financial structure. And this means every
decision that gets made, in my opinion, will be made
in a much better way."
Tom Hood, President,
Maryland Association of CPAs and Chairman for the Vision
Team of the American Institute of CPAs
"...[Financial Scoreboard]
could help people in my industry... this is really one
of the most exciting tools I've seen in a long time!"
Anne E. Griswold,
Former Director of Organizational Development, Silicon
Graphics, Inc.
"Incorporating Financial
Scoreboard perspective has had a profound impact upon
our organization as well as our consulting practice.
It has been great getting people to focus on Operating
Cash instead of just profits."
Robert Siegfried,
CPA, Siegfried and Associates
"We now use Financial Scoreboard™ in
all management meetings to look at financial performance.
The scoreboard helps us make smarter business decisions
that will improve profit and cash flow."
Jim Fici, Columbia
Plant Manager, Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Division
"She is just exuberant over Financial Scoreboard thinking and the Financial Scoreboard™ software
as a tool that she is using for historical analysis and
forecasting. Her company was a thriving company that
is now trying to survive some difficult management transitions."
Chuck Kremer - Creator of Financial Scoreboard™ and
co-author of Managing By The Numbers
"Financial Scoreboard software helps me know my own business...and know my competitors better than they know themselves...and
analyze stocks for highly profitable investing."
Herschell Doss, President,
Treeko Electronics
"Over ten years we grew & sold
my business for the highest multiple paid in our industry.
Working with the Financial Scoreboard enabled me to understand
the WHOLE PICTURE. I started thinking more in terms of
ROA instead of just profit. The results were staggering."
Jack Markle, President,
Center Rental and Sales Company
"The Financial Scoreboard™ software
is at the key to understanding how money moves through
a business."
Dave Guevara, Principal,
Ideal CMS (Cashflow Management System)
"Roughly the equivalent
of about three books on Corporate Finance, Managerial
Accounting and Accounting Methods that I had in Business
School. It [Managing by the Numbers] is really nice and
refreshing to see all that cut down to the fundamentals.
I'm really impressed."
Bill Russ, CEO, Venture
Analytics, Novato, CA
"Every successful business
needs to learn how to convert profit into cash; this
gives business people powerful tools for doing just that."
Jack Stack, CEO, Springfield
Remanufacturing Company
". . . the most vital
aspects of business performance in a simple fashion .
. . allows any manager or owner to track their company
swiftly and accurately."
Bob Saffold, President,
Pavilions Plus
"There is an ever increasing demand for CPAs to provide more value and insight to their business clients. The Financial Scoreboard™ is
a tool that does that as well as help CPA's assist their
clients in identifying and implementing specific strategies
to grow and manage their business more effectively."
Steve Osborne, MBA,
CPBA President, Mentor Plus
"One of my great joys
is working with people who are using Financial Scoreboard
in creative and innovative ways. I've mentioned Ideal
CMS before as corporate performance management consultants
who have really put Financial Scoreboard to work in their
business-assessment processes. They have gone farther
by using Financial Scoreboard in their River of Cash
methodology for aligning day-to-day decision-making with
the strategic and investment goals of a company. This
is really an exciting way of using the Financial Scoreboard
as part of a corporate alignment process."
Chuck Kremer talks
about a client and power user of Financial Scoreboard™
"Since 1995, your template has been invaluable for helping me to support my business team in pro-actively managing our balance between profit and cash throughout the year".
Steve Hyman, Business
Manager, Media Marketing, Inc.
"I've been looking for
years and now I found it . . . (Financial Scoreboard
and Managing by the Numbers) is like a mystery novel
. . . 'cut to the chase' kind of stuff."
Kevin Hoffman, CEO,
Aerospace Concepts, Montreal, Canada
"When I was CFO for our first training company, I always used the Financial Scoreboard™ to
plan where our cash would (or would not) be ninety days
into the future. During one difficult year, this knowledge
made it possible for us to adjust strategy far enough
in advance to stay alive."
Chuck Kremer - Creator of Financial Scoreboard™ and
co-author of Managing By The Numbers
"We
are able to move to a more value-based relationship
with our clients."
"Allows us to make our information predictive, not just the usual post-mortem."
"Typically
we have given only financial statements, now we
have a great tool for saying 'here is a different way
to look at your business' that really gives value to
the numbers."
"A
forward-looking analysis of what is really going
on in a client's business that is great for getting people
talking about other things than net profit."
"Now
the statement 'You can understand where and how
the cash is going in your business' is something I can
really deliver on."
"We
use it for internal financial literacy with our
associates and satellite offices."
"A
small business owner client told me - I never understood
my financial statements... until you showed them
to me this way."
"We
have integrated this into our audit reporting,
and use the Financial Scoreboard to present the information
to be discussed during the management report meeting."
"Bankers
go nuts over this stuff - they say 'wow', and they
refer business."
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