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As a business executive, have you ever stopped to ask yourself, “What You Don’t Know About Your Business Can Cost You Your Business.” Stick our your balance sheet and cough gets you what you need to know in time for any needed procedures which can mean the difference between life and death.

Sticking out your balance sheet is no more comfortable than a visit to your doctor, but it’s every bit as important. Even if it’s bad news (maybe especially) you need to know.

Even before the Bernie Madoff scandal and the financial meltdown, Patterson saw companies struggle, and worse, die from self-inflicted risks they unwittingly took. Patterson has built a 30-year consulting practice helping companies develop and implement an ERM strategy to ensure long-term financial growth while managing risk and uncertainty. Use his proven methods and signature management practices.

Best ERM Practices for Long Term Health

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Gary W. Patterson, president & CEO of FiscalDoctor®, delivers high-impact speeches on a range of topics covering strategic planning, enterprise risk management, and finance issues. His target audiences are corporations and professional associations. The following titles reflect some of his recent presentations:

• Corporate Governance: What Is Our Company Doing or Not Doing That May Embarrass Our Company or Our Board?
• Consultative Selling: Decision Making in a Vacuum: Why Don't Boards Get the Data They Need to Make Timely and Informed Decisions?
• Clean Energy: Is Your Company Prepared for the Fall Out of a Clean-Energy World?
• There’s More Than One Way to Grow a Company: Think Alternative Financing!”
• Contingency Planning: How to Prevent Doomsday from Happening at Your Company
• Enterprise Risk Management Can Keep Your Company in the Black and Out of Trouble
• Meeting Corporate Goals: Numbers Don't Lie; Interpretations Might
• The Bottom Line: Five Tactics to Improve Profitability by Improving the Quality of Your Company’s Information
• Strategic Budgeting versus the Black Hole (or Budgeting Hell)
• Sales and Marketing: Finance Meets the Sales Funnel
• Building Long-Term Wealth by Building Equity

Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough

How Fiscally Fit is Your Business?

ABOUT… Gary W. Patterson, MBA, CPA, SAC, The FiscalDoctor

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Gary W. Patterson, The FiscalDoctor, is a Stanford MBA and Big-4 CPA with 30 years’ experience working with middle market and growth companies in both traditional and emerging industries. To this end, Patterson works with CEOs, board members, executive teams, private equity investors, and entrepreneurs to help them identify overlooked opportunities and manage the risk factors that negatively affect their companies’ bottom line.

Patterson is the author of Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health. He speaks widely on enterprise risk assessment and risk analysis, leadership, corporate governance, and the bottom-line impact of going green.