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Achieve Your Personal Goals Through the Success of Your Business
The Story of Joe: How one man used the Apex Kairos process to transform his business and achieve his personal goals. Have you ever found your business hitting a plateau—or even a decline—and weren’t sure what to do about it? Or perhaps you have...
Empowering Your Team Empowers Your Business
In the beginning, all bets are off. A business owner’s sheer will and determination is enough. This works when you reach four or five employees. Then comes an epiphany. Fatigue and plateau set in. And you realize that if you keep doing the same...
Epic in The Fox Valley – Mike Algrim
A Conversation with Mike Algrim, Director of Commercial Banking for First National Bank, about growing up in St. Charles, what lights him up about entrepreneurial growth, and his prediction on a cashless society. You attended St. Charles...
Meet Lisa Yanke, CPA – Executive Division Associate
Aurora University graduate Worked in public accounting since 2012 Specialty areas: manufacturing and technology sectors Looks for ways to help businesses succeed Loves hiking! She knows what successful companies look like Hi, I’m Lisa! Since...
What Makes a Great Partnership in Business?
By Lucas VanDeWoestyne, CPA, CGMA and Partner of Apex CPAs & Consultants In many ways, a great partnership in business is like any lifelong relationship. Both require a sense of shared values, and the willingness to take next steps...
Meet Dawn Andrey, Enterprise Associate at Apex
• Enjoys helping others • Comes from a large family • Loved dominoes growing up • She's in go-mode much of the time What do you do at Apex? Financial statements and all types of tax returns, including individual and business entities. What...
BUY-SELL AGREEMENTS PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS
What would become of your business if something happened to you, your business partner or a fellow shareholder? If an owner dies, becomes disabled, divorces, declares bankruptcy or simply retires, your business could be thrown into turmoil. Not...
Are Baby Boomers avoiding succession planning?
We all know that the Baby Boomers have begun turning 65, the traditional retirement age. Over the next 18 years, all the Baby Boomers will hit that milestone. While not everyone wants to retire at that magic age, it is a reminder that time is...
Cathedral sale won by ‘Thinking of the other guy’
Technical valuation issues will always be important, but what about those special situations involving intangible values that transcend the property’s tangible market value? Sometimes the value of a property isn’t just about measuring comparable...
Low budget alternatives to expensive expert witnesses
Gregory T. Douds is a CPA, attorney and county judge in Georgia. In this article, he pulls from all areas of his background to provide ideas for alternatives to expensive expert witnesses. I have represented clients in hundreds of hearings and...
Tax Court: Interest on forgiven loan taxable
Some employers who are seeking to snare top talent offer deferred signing bonuses – often in the form of loans – to key employees. The loans are scheduled to be forgiven later, after the employees prove their commitment to the new organization. A...
Does your practice have a business plan?
Your law firm is not just a convenient place for you to practice your profession – it is a business that provides opportunity, financial wealth and satisfaction to you and your employees. As such, you need a business plan that envisions the firm’s...
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