Bøker av Ted Clifton

Should you start that new business? What is the break-even revenue number for your struggling business? Do you have enough cash to succeed in your new business? Why is it important to know how to plan and budget for both a new business and an existing business?These questions, and many more, are answered in this third book in the Success Paths Business Series.Planning and forecasting are vital tools for any business owner or prospective owner. Clifton's approach to this subject starts with simple plans and builds towards more complex planning and forecasting with detailed examples. Planning does not solve every business problem; but Clifton believes small business owners often overlook these tools. The book includes chapters on break-even analysis, key performance indicators and cash verses accrual accounting. The book is plain spoken and is written for business owners who are not comfortable with many aspects of planning and budgeting, offering real world examples of the benefits for startups and existing businesses.2 for 1 Bonus. Five Case Studies. These case studies reflect the many benefits in planning and how it can help the business owner avoid costly mistakes.

Rejoin Ray Pacheco and Tyee Chino in their latest adventure unraveling a maze of misdeeds involving wealth, power, political corruption and Navajo warriors. Farmington, New Mexico located in the Four Corners area where four states meet is about to experience a level of crime and mayhem never seen before. The local sheriff has abandoned his post and taken old military equipment, including a tank, off to Colorado to prepare for the beginning of the end. Left behind is the body of his wife, who was having an affair with the richest man in town. Money, sex and all known sins come into play in a small town drama that will take Pacheco and Chino into a conflict that will involve many of the good citizens of Farmington and the nearby Navajo Nation.

Washed-up legal investigator Vincent Malone has come to Santa Fe in search of a new life. Instead, he finds himself drawn into a murder investigation when a high-profile LA sports agent turns up dead at the B&B where Vincent has found work.Teaming up with an ancient gun-slinging lawyer (whom everyone thought was dead), Vincent investigates the agent's pro athlete clients, all of whom share a strong motive: the agent had just lost millions of dollars of their money in a botched investment. As the case grows more complicated, Vincent discovers Santa Fe might just be the right place to get his mojo back.For fans of classic PI mysteries, where flawed men try their best to do good, and a colorful cast and unexpected twists keep you guessing right until the last page.

The high-end contemporary art scene drops into Santa Fe, New Mexico with ugly feuds, temperamental egos, sexual entanglements and murder.Vincent Malone, one-time attorney and legal investigator, now down-on-his-luck shuttle driver, is right in the middle of all of the action. His employer, the Blue Door Inn, is hosting a big international artist in Santa Fe for her U.S. debut, and nothing is going smoothly.Before long there is one dead body and plenty of suspects. Malone dusts off his investigating skills to solve this classic whodunit.

In an exclusive residential neighborhood, a U.S. Senator's wife has died. Tommy Jacks and his fellow journalists don't believe the police chief's story blaming it on natural causes. It has the smell of a crime. So begins a new journey set in the 1960s involving numerous dead bodies, high-tension political intrigue, police corruption, the drug underworld and unsavory hidden pasts. Tommy has a lot to write about in his My View political column.Only in his second year as a political columnist, he finds new romance and emotional healing among a chaotic mixture of characters, from his new mother and his recently out-of-jail father to his acerbic journalistic mentor and antagonist and a foul-mouthed lawyer of questionable ethics, all wrapped inside the saga of two competing daily newspapers still at war.Lurking in the shadows is the powerful and corrupt police chief, who seems to think it might be best if Mister Jacks, even so young, was dead.Murder So Strange continues the 1960s saga of Tommy Jacks: Muckraker.