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Measuring
and enhancing performance in your design consultancy.
A DBA seminar (Monday 8 December 2008) with David C Baker - the leading management consultant to the creative service industry in the US.
This seminar covers everything about the numbers side of running your business well.
Who should attend: principals, operations managers and controllers in design consultancies.
At the seminar, you will learn:
- How to construct financial statements properly
- How to interpret them
- How to avoid common reporting mistakes
- How to understand the same event from the perspective of leverage, profit and cash
- How you should work with your accounting firm
- How to manage cashflow
- What your software options include
- How to measure utilization (billable efficiency)
- How to fix any gaps the analysis reveals
You'll also get an explanation of:
- Several dozen benchmarks to apply to your business
- Taxes, legal structure, retirement, insurance, funding growth, employee benefits, open book management, collections
And last but not least, how to navigate a downturn!
| Date: Monday 8 December
Time: 2 to 6pm
Where: London
Tickets priced:
DBA member rate: £99 + vat
Non member: £199 + vat
For
more information and a booking form click
here
If you have any queries please email
harsha.patel@dba.org.uk
or call the office 020 7251 9229
Don't forget
that David Baker is also taking a 2 day workshop 'Managing
Creatives and Creativity'. For more information click
here
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Introducing David C Baker
David is the principal of ReCourses, a US management consulting firm that works exclusively with small service providers in the communications industry.
As a young boy, David grew up in Guatemala, living with a tribe of Mayan Indians until the age of 18, after which he moved to the US. He founded ReCourses in March 1994. Since then he has advised hundreds of independent firms and in-house departments, typically working with 40 new firms every year.
He has been a frequent speaker at nearly every industry conference in the US (including HOW, AIGA and MYOB) and a frequent contributor to nearly every US industry publication. He is the leading management consultant to the creative service industry, helping principals for a dozen years. He is also author of the recently released "Managing (Right) for the First Time".
David and his work have been discussed in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Inc. Magazine and Business Week. He also contributed portions of Cameron Foote's The Business Side of Creativity, and the new AIGA book on Professional Practice in Graphics.
For more details on David visit www.recourses.com
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