July 20, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

Sustainable Growth Strategies

CEO, President, Board members, C-Suite, CRO, CFO, Internal Audit, Investors, Bankers

June 14, 2017 – Boston, Massachusetts and Atlanta, Georgia – International sustainable profitable growth and enterprise risk management (ERM) expert and speaker Gary W. Patterson recorded a growth oriented video for BusinessTown. https://businesstown.com/shows/gary-patterson/business-growth-strategies-fiscal-doctor/

He discusses 5 themes or blindspots to enable profitable growth or reduce risk. To go deeper in each theme discussed, ask yourself the accompanying question.
1. Customer and product profitability – My business does not accurately know who its 10 most profitable customers are.
2. Change – My company does not know how changes at one of our top 10 customers would affect our own bottom line.
3. Overly optimistic balance sheet – My business occasionally capitalizes expenses that create assets with questionable recorded value.
4. Opportunity cost – My business has an asset it would be better off selling at a loss to free up cash to pursue a more promising opportunity.
5. Puffery – My business paints an overly optimistic picture of our company among customers, vendors, or financing sources.

On a score of 1 to 10 for each of these themes with a 1 being “our business needs to address this now” to 10 being “we have this covered and spending more time on it would divert us from other more important activities,” where can you and should you “do better?”

To discuss any of these in more detail, your situation, or how your top issues differ, call Gary Patterson at 1-678-319-4739. Clients call him their FiscalDoctor® and just as every person needs a medical doctor; every organization needs a FiscalDoctor and periodic fiscal checkups. He also supports special projects for risk assessments, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk management (ORM), fiscal checkups, corporate governance, strategic planning updates, and strategic growth diagnostics.

About BusinessTown
Become part of our mission to: Deliver world-class advice, inspiration and motivation in a way that makes it fun and easy to start and run a small business. Learn. Innovate. Grow.
BusinessTown will give you the knowledge and inspiration to launch your startup and grow it into a thriving enterprise. Our expert videos will take you step-by-step through every aspect of building a successful business. Our video format makes it easier to learn and retain business concepts, making you a better businessperson. https://businesstown.com/

About Fiscal Doctor Inc.
FiscalDoctor Inc. enables growth through leverage you did not know you had and works with leaders to uncover million dollar holes to make the best business decisions and dramatically accelerate correct fiscal leadership decisions. This helps leaders regain control of their financial destinies and capitalize on hidden high return opportunities, while limiting exposure to risk.

Patterson, a Big 4 CPA with a MBA degree from Stanford University, speaks regularly and leads strategic working sessions on topics such as corporate governance, risk management, strategic contingency planning, achieving corporate financial goals, and building long-term wealth.

His book Million Dollar Blind Spots: 20/20 Vision for Financial Growth provides cutting edge follow-up for blind spots: how to identify them, and exploit opportunities and mitigate risk related to million dollar blind spots. Visit his website at https://fiscaldoctor.com and “free” fiscal fitness test at https://fiscaldoctor.com/fiscal-quiz/ , or call 678-319-4739.
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June 13, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

Podcast overview on Finding Million Dollar Blind Spot

About Conston Taylor

Conston Taylor is a specialized marketing expert and host of Business Innovators Radio.

He interviewed me on this classic interview for growth companies.

https://businessinnovatorsmagazine.com/gary-w-patterson-business-growth-risk-assessment-speaker-consultant/

Strategic Financial Advice on One Pressing Opportunity or Risk

5 questions PDF bookcard

5 mistakes PDF bookcard

May 9, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

AM&AA Adds Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough to Its Recommended Reading List

ERM Expert Gary W. Patterson Offers Blueprint on Taking Risk out of Operations or M&A

November 10, 2009, Chicago, Illinois – The Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors® (AM&AA)) added to its Recommended Reading list Gary W. Patterson’s book, Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health www.amaaonline.com/books. Patterson is an enterprise risk management expert and sought-after speaker. In his newly released book, the author warns, “What you don’t know about your business can cost you your business, acquisition or major project.” The complete review is available at www.amaaonline.com/books.

As FiscalDoctor®, Patterson’s book contains the same practical advice and tools that he uses in his everyday practice to help companies grow while managing risk in an increasingly challenging economic environment. To this end, he helps executives identify internal problems from inventory mismanagement, outdated and incomplete financial reports, and false accounting assumptions to external forces like misreading the market, losing competitive advantage, and missing golden opportunities.

About Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors
The AM&AA is the acknowledged leading association and credentialing body for Middle Market M & A Professionals. Formed in 1998 to bring together Intermediaries, Investment Bankers, CPAs, attorneys and other experienced corporate financial advisors, AM&AA’s 600+ professional services firms – including some of the most highly recognized leaders in the industry—draw upon their combined transactional expertise to better serve the needs of their middle market clients worldwide. AM&AA members represent sellers and buyers of businesses ranging from $5 to $500 million in transaction value. Their services are seller representation, buyer representation, due diligence, accounting, financing, business valuation, tax planning, legal, strategic advisory, and many other transaction services www.amaaonline.com/.

About Gary W. Patterson
Gary W. Patterson, president and CEO of FiscalDoctor®, has been a growth consultant for more than 200 companies spanning technology, supply chain and service industries. His clients include startups, Inc. 500, and middle-market companies worldwide. Patterson is a well-known speaker on ERM, corporate governance, risk analysis, leadership and the impact of renewable energy on the world economy.

His recently published book, Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health is targeted to CEOs and business leaders of companies who are managing growth while struggling with the reality of these challenging economic times. The book is available on Amazon.com. For more information on the FiscalDoctor, visit his website at www.fiscaldoctor.com. Patterson also offers a “free” fiscal fitness test at www.fiscaldoctor.com/fiscaltest.html. He can be reached at 681-319-4739.

May 2, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

To add Value – Sanity Check Your Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

CEO, President, Board members, C-Suite, CRO, CFO, Internal Audit, Investors, Bankers

Birmingham, United Kingdom and Atlanta, Georgia – International sustainable profitable growth and enterprise risk management (ERM) expert and speaker Gary W. Patterson’s article “Sanity Check Your Enterprise Risk Management” is published by Risk & Compliance, a member of Financier Worldwide. https://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/sanity-check-your-enterprise-risk-management

Position your organization for success — and avoid letting unforeseen risks damage your profits or your reputation. How? Consider where your sanity check of seven basic building blocks can add value to your ERM system, its effectiveness, and its value versus the monetary and personnel resources invested.

What is ERM — and why should you care?
Which mandatory policy decisions should exist in your program?
What other elements are necessary for an ERM program?
What is the appropriate risk context for your organization?
How is an effective risk culture developed?
How are potential risk events categorized?
What are the primary types of risk responses?

On a score of 1 to 10 for each of these areas with a 1 being “our business needs to address this now” to 10 being “we have this covered and spending more time on it would divert us from other more important activities,” where can you and should you “do better?”

About Financier Worldwide

Financier Worldwide is a leading publisher of news and analysis on the global business and finance market place. With leading products such as the monthly print publication, Financier Worldwide Magazine, the organization has become recognized as a leading source of intelligence to the business and corporate advisory community. www.financierworldwide.com

About Fiscal Doctor Inc.

FiscalDoctor Inc. enables growth through leverage you did not know you had and works with leaders to uncover million dollar holes to make the best business decisions and dramatically accelerate correct fiscal leadership decisions. This helps leaders regain control of their financial destinies and capitalize on hidden high return opportunities, while limiting exposure to risk.

His book Million Dollar Blind Spots: 20/20 Vision for Financial Growth provides cutting edge follow-up for blind spots: how to identify them, and exploit opportunities and mitigate risk related to million dollar blind spots. Visit his website at https://fiscaldoctor.com and “free” fiscal fitness test at https://fiscaldoctor.com/fiscal-quiz/ , or call 678-319-4739.

April 11, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

Growth, Accountability, Leadership, Change, Sustainability, Risk Management Expert

Author, Speaker & Consultant Gary W. Patterson, FiscalDoctor® Books Available in 12 Countries

Seattle, Washington and Atlanta, Georgia – Sustainable profitable growth and enterprise risk management (ERM) expert and speaker Gary W. Patterson, FiscalDoctor®, has been selected by AudioInk to publish a series of business oriented books for entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Already available in 12 countries, the series includes “Million Dollar Blind Spots”, “Why Risk Management?: Systems for Making Informed Financial Decisions”, “Human Capital RX: The Fiscal Prescription for a Stronger HR Department, “Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health”, “The Fiscal Fitness System Understanding Balance Sheets, Income Statements, and Cash Flow” and “Find Your Million Dollar Blind Spots: 7 Thing You Need to Know”.

What Patterson does now, all day – every day, is Help business leaders, maybe not unlike yourself, who feel their business is a little too much of a best kept secret, stuck, or coasting on past success. Often this helps you enable sustainable profitable growth. Or it involves helping find the Million $ Blind Spot before it finds you.

Patterson works with leaders to uncover blind spots to make better business decisions and dramatically accelerate correct fiscal leadership decisions. This helps leaders gain control of their financial destinies and capitalize on hidden high return opportunities, while limiting their exposure to risk.

Clients call him their FiscalDoctor® and just as every person needs a medical doctor; every organization needs a FiscalDoctor and periodic fiscal checkups. He also supports special projects for risk assessments, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk management (ORM), fiscal checkups, corporate governance, strategic planning updates, and strategic growth diagnostics.

To discuss your situation or a strategic working session, call Gary Patterson at 1-678-319-4739.

About AudioInk

AudioInk boasts a powerful network of online distributors providing material worldwide. Our outlets involve such industry leaders as Apple’s iTunes, Amazon, B&N and more.

Founded in 2011, AudioInk Publishing, a division of Made For Success, Inc., is dedicated to providing authors and speakers the opportunity to make their Books, eBooks, Audiobooks, Speeches and other content available to leading retailers. AudioInk provides generous royalties and full service to extend the greatest opportunity to self-published authors. Great or small, everyone should have full access to distribute their work successfully. http://audioink.com/about/

About Gary W. Patterson

Gary W. Patterson, president & CEO of FiscalDoctor®, has been interviewed or presented internationally at over 152 of the leading and most prestigious publications and groups in the world and worked with over than 200 companies spanning supply chain, technology, transportation, construction, and service industries.

For more information, visit his website at www.fiscaldoctor.com and his “free” fiscal fitness test at https://fiscaldoctor.com/fiscalquiz.html. He can be reached at 678-319-4739.