How do I Price my Goods & Services?!
What is the role of product or service cost in the conversation about price? The truth is cost has little or nothing to do with sales price. The marketplace, that place of competition between buyers and [...]
How to Take a Worry Free Vacation
If you won a free 30 day vacation to Fiji, could you leave tonight? 99.9% of business owners would have to pass up this vacation of a lifetime simply because their organization is too dependent upon [...]
5 Metrics that Could Save Your Business
As business owners and managers, we are always searching for ways to improve our business. But too often, we spend an enormous amount of time putting out the fire of the day or hour and not [...]
Employers Receive Transition Relief for WOTC Certification
In the recently released Notice 2013-14, the IRS provided a bit of relief for employers who wish to take advantage of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), which was retroactively extended by the American Taxpayer Relief [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
2012 Year in Review
One year can be boiled down to more than half a million minutes. We at Mackey Advisors feel we have effectively used the time with great success in 2012. We owe deep gratitude to our client [...]
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 [...]
The Future of Business: What’s Gen Y got to do with it?
In November of last year I went to Bold Fusion, the largest annual convergence of YPs in the Greater Cincinnati area. It was my second year attending, and it still has me thinking about the Gen [...]
Annual Tax Update Letter to our Clients & Friends
The links below contain two very important letters pertaining to the tax law changes enacted by Congress. Before you start to prepare your individual or small business tax return please read these letters. If you have [...]