Tag: Ruth King
2025 – the Year of Significant Changes
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Ruth King Some of you have huge changes because of geographic issues – the effects of the hurricanes in Florida, North Carolina, and other areas. Others have huge […]
How To Fire a Customer
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently Kevin Price “Fired” a Customer, He Discussed it with a Leading Profitability Expert. By: Ruth King “We’re going to go out of business…but we don’t care if […]
What Would You Do if Your Bookkeeping Firm Sent Financials With NEGATIVE $119,000 in Revenue?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King This actually happened! Recently I got the June financial statements from a client who had subscribed to Financially Fit Business (www.financiallyfit.business). I always like to see […]
Two Common Pricing Mistakes – Are You Making Them?
Reading Time: 3 minutes By: Ruth King Many business owners make these two pricing mistakes. Now that they have been exposed to you – I know you won’t make them. Here they […]
Are You Really Free?
Reading Time: 2 minutes By: Ruth King In honor of Canada’s Birthday, July 1st, and the Fourth of July Independence Day in the United States later this week, here are my three […]
How To Increase Your Chances of an IRS Audit
Reading Time: 2 minutes By: Ruth King One of my clients was mixing personal expenses and business expenses: They paid their son’s private school tuition out of the business operating checking account. […]
Five Ways To Make Sure You Get Your Money
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Many business owners forget to bill, or worse, don’t pay attention to making sure the business receives payment for the products/services the company provided. First, make […]
4 Stupid Financial Moves To Avoid in 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Here are four stupid things owners and bookkeepers do. Resolve not to do them in 2024. Not putting 1% of all cash coming in the […]
Your Business Is a Tool – How Well Are You Maintaining It?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Ruth King You know that your tools require maintenance to keep them in good shape and reliable. Your business is a tool that helps you increase profits, […]
Three Warning Signs You May Be Headed for a Cashflow Crunch
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King “We don’t have enough money in our bank account to cover payroll.” This is NOT what you want to hear from your bookkeeper the day before […]
Five Cash Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King These five cash flow mistakes can kill your business: You are living off your checkbook. As long as you have cash in the bank, you […]
Five Little Changes That Can Create Big Profits
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Implementing these five actions can increase profits and can be done in slower or busier times. Get one more billable hour per day per field employee […]
Positive Cash Flow – False Sense of Security?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Some of you will have a great cash influx this summer, or this fall, or this winter, lulling you into a false sense of security. Unfortunately, […]
How To Have a Financially Fit Business
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy: Ruth King Imagine this: Your monthly financial statements land on your desk. Instead of a groan, you find yourself smiling, because now, you have the power to decrypt […]
Are You Making These Financial Mistakes?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Are you making these financial mistakes which get accentuated when revenues grow quickly? Volume is vanity. Profits are sanity. (I’ve said this for years). I’ve been […]
A Fun Way To Generate Revenue in Slower Times of the Year
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Let’s start with a story of a client: February was this client’s worst month of the year. We decided to do something about it. We looked […]
Watch Your Cash
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Cash is the lifeblood of your company. Without cash, you won’t survive for long. Here are seven simple cash procedures. When you sign checks, look […]
How To Prepare for Inflation
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King First, you MUST have profitability. Not profits. Not losses. Profitability. What’s the difference? You can have profits one month and losses the next month. Or, profits […]
Don’t Put a Budget in QuickBooks
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Ruth King I shouldn’t but a budget into QuickBooks? That’s insane…is probably what most of you are thinking. Yes, budgeting is critical. But, how most accounting software packages […]
Negative Cash?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Ruth King Here’s a really easy way to tell if your financial statements are wrong: negative cash on your balance sheet. Unfortunately, I see this too often. You […]
Cash Flow is More Important than Cash
Reading Time: 2 minutesINTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, MEDIA PARTNER OF THIS SITE. Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Ruth King. Your first thought […]
PoB Show Contributor has 2 Books Recognized as Among Best for Startups
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy the Price of Business, Media Partner of USABR. UK based Fupping announces its 37 books start up should read. Among the classics by Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey, and Napoleon […]
The Two Type of Thieves You Face
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn a recent Price of Business (media partner of this site), host Kevin Price interviewed Ruth King, who is a regular on the show, about her new book and the […]
How to Read a Financial Statement in a Minute and a Half
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKevin Price, Host of the Price of Business Radio Show, Media Partner of this News Site. Price recently interviewed Price of Business contributor, Ruth King of the Profitability Revolution. She teaches the […]
Profitable Bottom Line — Every Day
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKevin Price, Host of the Price of Business Radio Show, Media Partner of this News Site. Price recently interviewed Ruth King of Profitability Revolution on making every day — even holidays — […]