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 Been in business for awhile? How about taking your business to the next step?

Are you a second stage business?

Business Model Assessment

Business Report Card

Financial Scorecard

Seek performance excellence: Baldrige National Quality Program

Developing a quality management system: ISO 9000

Peer learning

How secure is your business? eScan Security Tool

Best practices assessments from Virginia Tech

Small Business Report Card

Courtesy of MasterCard

Is your business making the grade? This number-crunching study guide has the answer. It helps you calculate the key business ratios so that you can compare them with industry averages. Once you have calculated your ratios, you can go to the library or subscribe to the Hill Reference Library ($7.95 per month) to get access to industry averages.

Click here to go to the Small Business Report Card.

Mastercard also offers these short business online publications:

  • Buying and Selling a Small Business
  • The Plan: A Step-by-Step Business Plan Workbook
  • Managing Cash: The Small Business Owner's Guide to Financial Control
  • Your Place in the Marketplace: A Simple Guide to Your Small Business
  • Understanding Commercial Lending: The Question and Answer Guide
  • Understanding where You Stand: A Simple Guide to your Company's Financial Statements.
Click here to go to these resources.
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