Profit Mastery: Creating Value and Building Wealth
Focusing on providing key financial management concepts in a user-friendly, down-to-earth, case study-driven format, Profit Mastery is now recognized internationally as the most effective financial education curriculum available. All the concepts presented in Profit Mastery: Creating Value and Building Wealth are immediately applicable to any business setting.
From learning the Seven Steps to Business Success to learning how to get what you need from your financing partners, this course is chock full of critical concepts.The Key Financial Reports, the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet, will come to life as the usefulness of each is linked together. Developing a financial performance scorecard that leads to increased understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the business is also emphasized. This scorecard, which includes industry comparatives and three-year trend data, is used in conjunction with the Profit Mastery Cause-and-Effect Road Map, allowing business owners/managers to quantify the financial effect of management inefficiency. The vital information from this exercise helps determine how many dollars can be driven to the bottom line – or the checkbook – when improved management processes are employed.
When you purchase Profit Mastery: Creating Value and Building Wealth through the Vistage Knowledge Center, you will receive the following elements:
- Online Access: By the next business day, you will receive an email from Business Resource Services (BRS), which will provide you with access to the online program, including your unique User Name and Password.
- Participant Guide: Your 400 page Participant Guide will be mailed to you via USPS Priority Mail (two-day service) or USPS Parcel Post Media Mail (approx. seven-day service), depending on which shipping option you selected.
If you do not receive your access email or participant guide within the approximate timeframe above, please contact BRS directly – via phone at 800.488.3520 or via email at brs@brs-seattle.com.
Graduates of Profit Mastery will learn:
The Seven Steps to Business Success
Why and how to benchmark company performance
To quantify the financial payoff of changing management behavior
Methodologies for managing profits
The difference between “making profits” and “having cash” – and how to do more of both
Practical ways to improve cash flow
To predict, manage, and control the financial effects of growth
To be prepared to get what you need from financing partners
To create effective, practical plans to improve the financial health of a business
Steve LeFever is a national leader in the development of practical financial programs and training for the business community. His dual role as a successful entrepreneur and as a commercial banker gives him a unique perspective on financial analysis, business management, and practical business decisions.
As an officer at Seattle First National Bank, Steve was a key figure in developing the most successful Business Advisory Services Group of any bank in the nation, tailoring financial services and training to the needs of small and mid-size companies.
In 1983, Steve founded his current firm, Business Resource Services (BRS), to further design, develop, and deliver practical financial training to the business community. Currently, BRS' services are in high demand by over 100 commercial banks, a variety of industry trade groups, and major U.S. corporations.
