Business Performance in a Challenging Economy                 

                         
                          Fundamental Finance for Non-Finance Professionals

Discover how to generate and analyze financial information that is essential to decision making and improve the ability to maintain appropriate levels of working capital in organizations.

The Principles of Financial Management
-Financial management is a key tool in controlling and directing the resources of any business organization. Managers--not only financial professionals but also managers whose responsibilities are largely non-financial--can use this tool to generate and analyze the financial information that is essential to decision making in business. Understanding the principles of financial management helps all managers, from line supervisors to senior executives, to use this tool more effectively to support the organization's goals.
This course introduces non-financial managers to the principles of financial management. It explores the basic concepts of risk and return and the time value of money.

The Basics of Budgeting
-In this course well-known public accountant, college professor, and veteran trainer, Fred Moore, guides the learner through the basics of the budgeting process. The course helps the learner understand the elements of a workable budget, and the common afflictions that often hamper the budgeting process. The course familiarizes the learner with the basic principles of capital budgeting, and the components of cash flow. It also shows how one needs to anticipate and react to changing financial forces, before they bungle a budget.

Management of Cash Flows
-Can a profitable company with a positive net worth run short of cash? Without sound cash management, it certainly can. Every organization, large and small, must manage the generation and expenditure of cash to ensure that bills can be paid on time.
This course covers the principles of sound cash flow management, including cash management strategies, the best use of credit collection, and ways to reduce overhead. With a knowledge of these strategies, managers improve their ability to maintain appropriate levels of working capital in their own organizations.

For more information about this curriculum please contact TTN at 800-487-3393.
 

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Eating That Frog - by Joel Arnold, TTNLearning

Imagine that you have your whole workday ahead of you. There are a dozen tasks you need to complete, including a fairly big, important one. But there’s the whole day to do it, so perhaps you start by getting coffee, checking your email and looking at the pile of other easier projects on your desk. Oh, wait – here’s something to file. You sip your coffee, sift through the pile and find something else easy to handle. You check your email again (just in case). You drain your coffee, find another small project to do, oh geez – time for a bathroom break. The fairly big important project is still there, warts and all, staring at you from under your stack of work, but now it’s only half an hour ‘til lunch, and you don’t want to start something so big if you don’t yet have to time to really dig into it, right? Lunch comes and goes. Check email. Refill coffee. Remember to tell Jack in accounting that you want to order some of his daughter’s Girl Scout cookies. And your

big important project continues to sit and stare at you.

Sound familiar? If so, I highly recommend Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog; 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating & Get More Done in Less Time. He starts out with the premise that “if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the rest of the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.” In other words, think of that big, important project as a frog, and by tackling it first thing in the morning, you’ll not only have a better day, but will get a lot more done.

So why not order Brian’s book and start eating those frogs! 

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Talent You Already Possess

Many people do not realize that Nat "King" Cole started his musical career as a piano player. It was while he was on a trip to California, performing in a night club, that his singing career got a jump start.

The singer who was to have performed that evening was taken ill. When Cole showed up the club owner asked about the singer. When he learned the singer was sick, the club owner responded, "No singer, no check." That's the night Nat "King" Cole launched his career. Actually, he had always been a singer but had never recognized and used that talent. Those of us who remember him as a person and as a talent consider him one of the true greats in all of entertainment. His music was spell-binding, soft, melodious and heart-warming. Unforgettable titles are "Unforgettable," "Ramblin' Rose," "The Very Thought of You," "L.O.V.E.," "Straighten Up and Fly Right," "Mona Lisa," "When I Fall In Love," "Too Young," "Sweet Lorraine," "Nature Boy," "Love Letters," "For All We Know," "The Very Thought of You."

I tell this story because you might be like me, unable to carry a tune. I certainly can't, but I'm convinced that you have a song to sing, and here's hoping you will take a different view of what you can do with the talent you already possess.

10 Tips to Getting Your Taxes Done by IRS Deadlines - by Jeff Parrack

Spring Has Sprung! : Gardening Tips & Tricks

Here, the latest tips and tricks from Paul James, host of Gardening by the Yard:

• To prevent accumulating dirt under your fingernails while you work in the garden, draw your fingernails across a bar of soap and you'll effectively seal the undersides of your nails so dirt can't collect beneath them. Then, after you've finished in the garden, use a nailbrush to remove the soap and your nails will be sparkling clean.
   
•  To prevent the line on your string trimmer from jamming or breaking, treat with a spray vegetable oil before installing it in the trimmer.
   
•  The next time you boil or steam vegetables, don't pour the water down the drain, use it to water potted patio plants, and you'll be amazed at how the plants respond to the "vegetable soup."
   
• To remove the salt deposits that form on clay pots, combine equal parts white vinegar, rubbing alcohol and water in a spray bottle. Apply the mixture to the pot and scrub with a plastic brush. Let the pot dry before you plant anything in it.
   
• To have garden twine handy when you need it, just stick a ball of twine in a small clay pot, pull the end of the twine through the drainage hole, and set the pot upside down in the garden. Do that, and you'll never go looking for twine again.
   
• Turn a long-handled tool into a measuring stick! Lay a long-handled garden tool on the ground, and next to it place a tape measure. Using a permanent marker, write inch and foot marks on the handle. When you need to space plants a certain distance apart--from just an inch to several feet--you'll already have a measuring device in your hand.

                                                                                    Source: http://www.hgtv.com

Can I Have 5 Minutes Of Your Time? - by Hal Becker

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