Download Our SMART Financial Goal Creation Tool for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses

This tool is for business leaders looking to define their organization’s financial goals and build a path to achievement. This is a brand new tool for Mackey Advisors & we would love to hear your feedback on how it can be improved!    

6 Financial Questions Every CEO Must be Able to Answer

 1. What are the leading Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in this business? Many CEO’s try to manage their business by only reviewing their P&L.  This is a disaster in the making, it would be akin to driving coast to coast looking in the rear view mirror.  In this fast paced world, you need to be… Read More

Metrics that Matter: Curing Data Overwhelm

We live in a time where information is at our fingertips like never before.  The question up for debate is whether access to all of this information is a blessing or a curse. Currently, many business owners spend more time trying to determine what data to measure rather than actually analyzing and acting upon it…. Read More

7 Audit Areas for Small Businesses

reposted with permission from findlaw.com. To read the original blog please click here. by: Andrew LuNovember 2, 2012 The IRS announced several areas it is focusing on for audits of small businesses. The announcement comes as the IRS said it is increasing its oversight of small businesses and the reporting of taxes. The IRS believes… Read More

100 Founders Share Their Top “Aha” Moments

reposted from Forbes.comby: Alan HallOctober 15, 2012 Prepare to be stunned. Recently, I took issue with news reports questioning the role of small business as a source of new jobs.  I summed it up with a remark from Jim Clifton, the Chairman of Gallup, from his new book The Coming Job Wars: “What the U.S…. Read More

A Simple Formula to Achieve your Goals

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein In my second year in business and I decided it was time to get serious and set some goals for the coming year.  I set a revenue goal of $70,000.  It seemed like a farfetched idea at the… Read More

Forward Thinker

reposted from the Business Courierby: Steve WatkinsAugust 24, 2012 Forward Thinker: McNeill spent years as a CPA, then finally decided to stop looking back, the Business Courier  Mackey McNeill can’t be quickly summed up. Sure, she’s best known as the founder of Bellevue-based wealth advisory firm Mackey Advisors. But she also owns an organic farm,… Read More

Diva Entrepreneur Series: Mackey Advisors

reposted from DivaCFOOctober 10, 2012   We met JJ Ramberg, host of MSNBC’s Your Business, a television show dedicated to issues affecting small business owners, at a conference back in July. To make our Diva Entrepreneur Series extra special, we asked JJ to come up with five questions she would ask you if you were on her show. Today our female entrepreneur is Mackey… Read More

The Basics of Business

We have been enjoying our first few weeks in our new office in Bellevue and one of the perks of moving to the new area is we have a fresh selection of places to satisfy our hunger pangs when lunch time rolls around.  This past week a few of us walked to a local sandwich… Read More