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Ep 0067 Ensuring Your Business / Life are Profitable and How to Focus on the Numbers with Jonathan Ankney

Richer Soul, Living A Life on Purpose!

Release Date: 04/01/2018

Ep 473 Super Performance with George Pesansky show art Ep 473 Super Performance with George Pesansky

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Money Learnings: school didn’t teach Jonathan about money. His parents taught him to be charitable and also to worry over money. 

Take away: Focus on the numbers.
 
Action step: Create your balance sheet, profit and loss and cash flow statements.

Bio:

Jonathan Ankney works with service business entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses by giving them clarity about what the numbers reveal about how their business is doing and partnering with owners as their chief financial officer.  His work includes preparing and interpreting financial reports to make informed decisions, setting up tailored financial systems to meet the business’s needs, training staff and owners on how to use the systems for consistent and accurate results, and relieving owners of the minute and boring details of making finance work smoothly.
 
Jonathan also runs a financial education blog at YourMoneyAndYourBusiness.com with videos, documents, and training courses to help businesses become more profitable as well as explain financial tools and concepts in non-technical language, tapping into his journey from musician to financial executive to bridge the gap for his audience.  He is especially passionate about keeping the focus of everyone and every financial activity on profitability instead of taxes.
 
He is an active Toastmaster, an avid bicyclist, and serves on both the vestry and the finance committee of the parish of Calvary-St. George’s in Manhattan. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1994 with an MBA in finance and arts administration.  
 
 

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