Episode 138: Bookkeeping is Key

Episode 138 originally broadcast on January 26, 2008

The School of Business for January 26, 2008

Russ and John have a good curriculum (but no football team) and they present useful information for "Make It Happen" entrepreneurs who know no limits. Includes: BusinessMakers Quote of the Week - inspiration from the former head of Coca-Cola, Doug Ivestor; This Week in Business History presents "Business & Media" week; Navigating Business Jargon - serious, dangerous buzzwords and technospeak that spew out every day; and Dumbest Moments in Business History - Taco Bell meets rats with no integrity.

Stephen King of GrowthForce

Russ interviews the founder, president and CEO of GrowthForce, an outsourced bookkeeping consulting service in Kingwood, Texas. King has been a number cruncher all his life - says he was a 10-year-old on a 10-key. Since 1979 he's been using technology to simplify bookkeeping. He established his first Web-based outsourced bookkeeping service in 1995 in New York's Silicon Alley. GrowthForce is staffed with QuickBooks experts who can analyze existing bookkeeping data, set up new bookkeeping systems and even train clients in best practices and use of the latest technology. It's a story of recognizing a need and creating the perfect solution.

Flashback - Paul Sarvadi

Flashback with the BusinessMakers to an interview from August 2005 when Russ visited with Paul Sarvadi, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Administaff. Today, Administaff is in 21 markets, and has been included on Fortune's list of America's Most Admired Companies and the InformationWeek 500 list of leading information technology innovators. But, when Sarvadi co-founded the company in 1986, Outsourcing was still a new idea and he had to fight to create the category that would become known as the "Professional Employer Organization." In this segment, Sarvadi explains how his respect for, and appreciation of, human resources prompted him to create - and to fight for - this new industry.