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How Does a Business Improve its Performance Today? Analyze, Manage, and Adapt!
Businesses are seeing expenses increase across the board and financial performance continues to be stressed in margins, EBITDA, and more.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Jul 19, 20225 min read
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What Does the Cost of Breakfast Tell Us About Ongoing Inflation Stresses and the Outlook for 2023?
Recently, we looked at the April year over year change in the price of a hamburger. Let’s now consider the impacts of inflation on breakfast
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Jun 28, 20223 min read
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What Tools Can be Used to Analyze Income Statements with the CPI at 8.6% and the PPI at 10.8%?
With inflation at its highest level in 40 years, it is important to reevaluate the financial analysis tools being used.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Jun 21, 20226 min read
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What Does a Hamburger Teach us about Inflation and World Economics?
Let’s consider inflation by looking at hamburgers. Here are the year over year changes in the price of hamburger ingredients.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Jun 14, 20224 min read
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What Defines a Small Business? Middle-market Business? Large Business? How does a Business Survive?
As the pandemic moves further into the past, the need for businesses to change and adapt is increasingly important to success.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Jun 2, 20224 min read
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Focus Management Group: May Month in Review
Each month we post an overview article that covers our recent company articles, announcements, and insights. Below is for the month of May.
paloisio
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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Will Labor Cost Increases Reduce Soon?
Business owners & managers are being confronted with rising labor cost pressures, and for many it appears there is no end in sight...
Juanita Schwartzkopf
May 24, 20223 min read
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Will Food Prices Continue to Increase, & What Does that Mean for the Food and Agribusiness Sector?
The food & agribusiness sector of the economy is experiencing serious increases in prices based on the data from the April 2022 CPI and PPI.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
May 17, 20223 min read
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Focus Management Group: April Month in Review
Each month we post an overview article that covers our recent company articles, announcements, and insights. This is for the month of April.
paloisio
May 1, 20222 min read
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Escalating Inflationary Pressures: Expect Waves of Inflationary Impacts
Businesses and lenders are challenged to deal with 2022 actual performance and 2022 forecasts in this complicated environment.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Apr 13, 20224 min read
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Focus Management Group: March Month in Review
Each month we post an overview article that covers our recent company articles, announcements, and insights. This is for the month of March.
paloisio
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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Food Cost Inflation: Impacts from Producers to Processors to Consumers
To understand the food & agribusiness sector and the inflationary challenges being felt, it's crucial to view the supply chain start to end.
paloisio
Mar 31, 20227 min read
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Fuel Prices and Transportation Costs are Surging: What Should Businesses Expect?
Fuel price increases have been huge. How can a business evaluate the amount of impact trucking costs will have on performance?
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Mar 16, 20224 min read
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Focus Management Group: February Month in Review
Each month we post an overview article that covers our recent company articles, announcements, and insights. This is for the month of Feb.
paloisio
Mar 2, 20221 min read
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Challenging Inflation – Let’s Get After This!
There are tools and techniques that can be implemented to survive and possibly thrive, even in the worst economic environments. Read more!
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Feb 15, 20224 min read
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Focus Management Group: January Month in Review
Each month we post an overview article that covers our recent company articles, announcements, and insights. This is for January.
paloisio
Feb 1, 20222 min read
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How Does a Business Deal with Supply Chain Issues in 2022?
The Semiannual Economic Forecast reports demand will expand, so don't expect supply chain issues to be short-lived. What should you do?
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Jan 27, 20227 min read
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How Does a Business Deal with Inflation in 2022?
Businesses will need to develop tools to plan for and manage through an inflationary period.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Jan 17, 20225 min read
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Focus Management Group: December Month in Review
Each month we post an overview article that covers our recent company articles, announcements, and insights. This is for December
paloisio
Dec 28, 20212 min read
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Trends of 2021 Are Here to Stay: Inflation, Labor Issues, Commodity Price Changes, Supply Chain
The trends previously considered to be emerging need to be considered a permanent part of the 2022 business environment.
Juanita Schwartzkopf
Dec 14, 20215 min read
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