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What if we didn’t think about it as succession planning?

There is, and correctly so, quite an emphasis placed on the importance of getting your ‘succession’ plans in place. And there is a lot of discussion within the industry, trying to understand why more farmers are not actively working on this important issue within their farm businesses.
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Sold! Getting the best after-tax price for your business

The first step towards preparing your business for sale is determining how your business is structured. In Canada, corporations are owned by shareholders, and are tax-paying entities that must file their own tax returns. Different liability and tax implications exist for sole proprietorships and partnerships.
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Seeing the forest through the trees: Planning for regrowth

In the past few years, the winds of change have been blowing hard through Western Canada’s forests – and more than just leaves are being rustled. An industry that used to hum along comfortably is being hit by a myriad of issues, including chronic labour shortages, housing start slow-downs in the U.S. and the spread of pine beetle infestations.
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Top ten steps to effective performance management

Behind every well-run business there are people and processes. Behind every struggling business there are people and processes. The very same components that make one company successful are also present in those that struggle to get by.
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts...or is it?

When a piece of plastic the size of a quarter can cause a multimillion-dollar operation to screech to a halt, the importance of an effective, well-oiled supply chain becomes obvious.
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Innovation Motivation

Is your business one of the many that contributed to $13.2 billion in research and development (R&D) funding in Canada in 2006? If it is, how much of your R&D investment did you recover?
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