risk assessment Atlanta

April 29, 2018 by fiscaldoctor

Cyber Risk Downloadable “How Safe Is Your Business? “

Your will enjoy and benefit from my cyber / risk six page “How Safe Is Your Business? “

Before you start spending any money for an external assessment of your cyber exposure, start with Three-Minute Self-Scoring Review to suggest your Cyber Job Security category and the article’s accompanying 5-step remedy.

How Safe Is Your Business? Why Cybersecurity Equals Job Security for CEOs, CFOs and Others was originally published by Corporate Compliance Insights.

For more value from applying this overview to your cyber situation, use the final one or two minutes to briefly note, your one to three key take away points, one next step action note and whose help you would benefit from as you make your action step.

Consider sharing this with colleagues in IT, risk management, strategic planning, internal audit, business continuity, supply chain management, safety or financial planning and analysis. You all are kindred spirits on making others more aware of major potential risks, of which cyber probably is one.

The job you save by considering this may be that of a colleague, friend, or your own.

How open minded are you to a brief strategic overview of your findings. Just imagine the value if you call Gary Patterson at 678-319-4739 or [email protected] to discuss your unique situation.

Download link for PDF

How Safe is Your Business eBook

Start with Three-Minute Self-Scoring Review to suggest your Security and risk categories

December 18, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

Happy Holidays, a Gift and To add golden value for you on my emails next year

Asking for your advice, insight and recommendations to make my emails even more valuable to you.

Sometimes getting customer feedback is as simple as asking for brief advice on any of the following:

1. What would you like me to do more of in these emails?

2. What would you like me to do less of in these emails?

3. What would you like me to call you about?

4. Who would benefit from my talking to: either them or me?

5. When would you like this to arrive?

6. How many times a month would you like information?

7. Where would you see more value in your business if something changed in these emails?

8. Why would you share one of these messages?

9. Which topic did you most enjoy in the last year?

10. Your thoughts on _________

My publisher gave me a link to give away from my last book. http://books.noisetrade.com/garywpatterson/million-dollar-blind-spots-book

You can always email me at [email protected] www.FiscalDoctor.com 678-319-4739

Looking forward to helping you, Gary
Gary Patterson
FiscalDoctor, Inc.
[email protected]
(678) 319-4739

Key member of 2 successful Inc. 500 international Companies always ready to help you next.

Helps leaders increase profitability providing access to 100 insider ways to unlock cashflow often better and cheaper than incumbents. Gary can be reached at 678-319-4739 or [email protected].

Sustainable profitable growth expert

July 13, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

Reduce Risk: Middle Market, Board, President, C-Suite, Family Business

REDUCE RISKS BY ADDING ALLIES FOR BETTER RISK MANAGEMENT: Reveals Sustainable Profitable Growth expert and Speaker Gary W Patterson, the FiscalDoctor®

July 11, 2017 – Birmingham, United Kingdom and Atlanta, Georgia – International enterprise risk management (ERM) expert and speaker Gary W. Patterson’s article “REDUCE RISKS BY ADDING ALLIES FOR BETTER RISK MANAGEMENT” is published by Risk & Compliance, a member of Financier Worldwide. https://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/reduce-risks-by-adding-allies-for-better-risk-management/

By investing small amounts of additional time and money, you can dramatically improve ERM efficiency while gaining new allies, and even friends.

Learn:
Who are your natural allies?
Where can you search for them?
Why will they care?

Every organization, regardless of size, never has all the money,
people or time desired. But value can be added through the fresh eyes and comments of independent outsiders. Look at how well your organization accesses and coordinates with outside resources

To keep your organization strong, consider where you can you apply some of these suggestions and coordinate with your natural allies for the betterment of all.

To discuss your situation, or how your answers on the questions 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 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 sustainable profitable 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.
© Gary W. Patterson. ###

risk assessment to uncover opportunities to accelerate and risk to minimize

April 4, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

Series of Individual Articles

Call to discuss any of these further. Series of individual article contributions includes:

CEO CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: TOP 10 LIST FOR GREATER SUCCESS IN 2017
https://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/ceo-confidential-memo-top-10-list-for-greater-success-in-2017

Why Isn’t ERM More Of A Team Sport At Your Organization?
http://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/change-a-risky-blue-sky-strategy-into-a-fiscal-vision-worth-its-weight-in-gold

What is Your Million Dollar Blind Spot Score
http://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/what-is-your-million-dollar-blind-spot-score

Liabilities or Overstated Assets, Hidden in Broad Daylight?
http://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/liabilities-or-overstated-assets-hidden-in-broad-daylight/

Risk & Compliance is an e-magazine dedicated to the latest developments in corporate risk management and regulatory compliance. Published quarterly by Financier Worldwide, Risk & Compliance draws on the experience and expertise of leading experts in the field to deliver insight on the myriad risks facing global companies, the insurance solutions available to mitigate them, and the in-house processes and controls companies must adopt to manage them.

Editorial partners include: 1stWEST Financial Corporation, Accenture Trading, Investments & Optimization Strategy (ATIOS), ADDACTIS Worldwide, American International Group, Inc. (AIG), AlixPartners, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), Ambridge Partners LLC, Baker& McKenzie, Bass Berry & Sims , Berkeley Research Group, LLC, BiZZdesign, Board Advisory, LLC, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Bovill , Bretton Woods Law, Caldwell Partners, CTPartners, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, EY, Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L, FisherBroyles, LLP, FTI Consulting, Inc, FWU Group, G3, Goodwin Procter, GÖRG, Governo Law Firm, Grant Thornton, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, HighQ, Hitec, Holland & Knight, Holman Fenwick Willan, IBM, IdentityMind, Innisfree M&A Incorporated, Innovation Insurance Group, JamesDruryPartners, Jeantet, Kelley Drye, KPMG LLP, Kurt Salmon, Linklaters LLP, Mason & Mason, McGladrey, MetaGovernance, Miles Software, NAVEX Global, Navigant, Norrbom Vinding, Okapi Partners, Paragon International Insurance Brokers Ltd, Parker Fitzgerald, Pay Governance LLC, Plesner, Poyner Spruill, Prager Dreifuss, PwC, Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP, RLM Finsbury, RSR Partners, SAS, Schillings, Shearman & Sterling, Simmons & Simmons LLP, SPITZWEG, Squire Patton Boggs, The Claro Group, Tokio Marine HCC, Walkers, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, Willis Group Holdings plc, Venable, Zurich Insurance Group, 4Civility Institute, Airmic, Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), APQC, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Business Continuity Institute (BCI), C2ES, Cambio Consulting Group, Center for Audit Quality, Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), Curtin University, Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa), European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa), Giving Voice to Values (GVV), International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Internet Security Alliance (ISA), Internet Security Alliance for Europe (ISAFE), ICSA, ISACA, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Reputation Institute, The Risk & Insurance Management Society, The Risk Management Association (RMA), Santa Clara University, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), and WomenCorporateDirectors

Find the Million Dollar Blind Spot; in time.

January 10, 2017 by fiscaldoctor

How you can profit from my dying computer hard drive

Monday at 8 am, I am ready to start a productive week, coffee in hand and todays to-do list. Suddenly a cryptic notice flashes from Dell monitoring. Dell says my hard drive MAY BE failing and suggests running a diagnostic, or ignore it if I want.

My reliable array M6700 seems fine and I am really busy. However, I do check that this is not an annoying scam from Nigeria, the IRS etc. It is not. That and discretion tells me to run the test.

The resulting code says my hard drive is DEAD.

Having led a sheltered business life for the last 30 years, I have never had my hard drive absolutely die.

Fast forward two days AND NIGHTS later. I now have an updated backup, a new hard drive, and a rebuilt backup array disk.

You may be thinking that the cobblers’ children almost had no shoes. My business forte is to help leaders find blind spots before they find you, if you listen. Does Gary walk the talk?

Contingency planning, enterprise risk management or old fashioned common sense suggest you have a plan and work that plan in your business and life. None of that kick the can down the road stuff. In either your or my own life, an unrecoverable hard drive with all our data, contacts and research can feel like a Million Dollar Blind Spot.

Somehow the Dell diagnostic gave me enough time to update a full external drive backup. What really saved my bacon though was a decision to buy the array redundant feature on my last laptop. That meant when my main hard drive died, everything was backed up on the array hard drive, including software programs and data. Interestingly I did not plan to pay for this feature on my next laptop, thinking I would rather have a hard drive twice as large next time. Now I am a believer in an array system.

How can you profit from my adventure?

1. Consider what contingency or risk is reasonable in your business or life?

2. Think about the last time you checked to see if your backup or safety steps actually still work.

3. Re-evaluate your contingency plan for WHEN, not if something occurs.

I was fortunate. With some introspection and thought, you can remain lucky in your life and business,

Some of you may like to ask about array hard drives, share a chuckle or discuss how these issues could impact you or your business. Call me at 678-319-4739 for a brief discussion of any of the above points.

August 15, 2016 by fiscaldoctor

Seen Any Baked or Filleted Financials Lately?

Articles and surveys abound on the unbelievable loss of faith in institutions across every sector. The author asks where you might be deceiving yourself about your official external financial statement package?

Consider that accounting financial statement reserves and accruals, like reserves for bad debts, inventory accounts, and accrued liabilities, are merely guesses, sometimes manipulated for immediate organizational aims. Many of those involved in creating those best-guess reserves agree with me. Others may be disheartened when confronted with the need to truthfully face the possibility that a lack of conservatism in their company’s balance sheet prevents accurate and timely information about financial resources available, particularly in carrying out planned initiatives on which financial and professional futures rely.

When a new CEO is inclined to “write off everything including the kitchen sink,” why are reserves and accruals the first place they look? Because far too often those estimates or best guesses were far, far too optimistic, and people no longer graciously cover up for predecessors.

Before bankers, auditors, or the new “kitchen sink write-off” leader reviews your balance sheet, do a self-test by answering the following questions:

To what extent do your people “fudge the book?”
How adequate are your balance sheet reserves?
How do you know if people are playing games with your balance sheet? Whether your organization is small or middle-market, or even a major international institution, how many far-too-optimistically, dramatically undervalued liabilities (or unrealistically, overvalued assets) distort crucial financial and operational information needed to make the best business decisions?

You can access the full article at http://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/liabilities-or-overstated-assets-hidden-in-broad-daylight/Please comment on why you agree or disagree with my suggestions or contact me about your unique situation or a discussion on good old fashioned over optimism or possibly puffery can lead you astray when you make crucial management decisions based on the best information available to you – in case it is partially baked or filleted. 678-319-4739 or www.fiscaldoctor.com/contact-us/ .