Smart cash flow management is critical to any business, but especially so for startups. Leasing the building, furnishing it, maintaining it, equipping it with phone and computer systems and networks… These are signif­icant costs that startups would do well to avoid for as long as possible. So it was with great interest that I read […]

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At least one person is defending Putin’s actions against Yukos and its former president, Mikhail Khodor­kovsky, but it was this that caught my eye (emphasis mine): Russian oligarchs were taking control of the entire Russian economy. These people had a strangle hold on every aspect of Russia and were basically out of reach of the […]

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I wrote a post about BCE converting from a corpo­ration to an income trust a couple days ago that set off a veritable firestorm of comments from a few readers. It quickly became the most commented on post here, which is pretty cool. So with that in mind I jumped at the chance to blog […]

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Here’s an inter­esting article that discusses why an MBA is better than a CA. The article is from India but I think a lot of it is trans­ferrable to Canada. Not that I agree with the author in any way — in fact, she is completely and utterly wrong in every available aspect. Her main […]

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No, Google isn’t managing invest­ments. They’re still devoted to “organizing the world’s infor­mation,” but that doesn’t matter to the SEC. A rule enacted in 1940 could cause increased regulatory headaches for the company. Companies whose securities make up more than 40 percent of their assets can fall under restric­tions that govern the mutual fund industry. […]

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