Understanding, Creating & Using Financial Documents & Information

Finance for the Non- Financial Apparel Manager/Entrepreneur
This seminar explains key financial documents needed to run an apparel company as well as those needed when working with lenders & investors. How to use: Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Projections. Why do we need them?
This important seminar will also include an explanation of common financial terms used by investors, lenders and accountants.
Descriptions of Budgets, Strategic Planning and Business Plans will be included.
3 hour seminar

EDI – (Electronic Data Interchange) Seminar

Trying to sell to the big retailers? Understanding EDI and its applications will be important to the success of your sales and collection process. EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of inter company business documents using a standard public data format. Instead of relying on the telex, fax machine or mail to exchange documents, EDI users exchange them directly between computers.
3 hour seminar

Building World Class Systems Giant Tools for Would-Be Giants

To examine some of the many issues that can arise when purchasing a new store system. There are many decision points along the way, and a full understanding of what questions can come up will help retailers prepare to own and utilize a world class POS/Inventory control system. The topics covered: What is the infrastructure you need? Software expectations. Rollout plans. Training plans.
3 hour seminar

Are Your Business Strategies Working For You? What’s Your Business Strategy and Is It Working?

• Are you working harder without getting the results you want?
• Are you concerned about building lasting value in your business? 
• Are you faced with too many opportunities or choices?
  

This three-hour workshop examines the role Business Strategy plays in achieving business success.  Business Strategy is “the development and utilization of specific qualities or characteristics that set your business apart from others in your industry”.  We begin by considering that Business Strategy is often the first place to look when dealing with important business problems. Each participant is asked to identify their most pressing business problem and a few examples are used to illustrate how business strategy can make a difference in those areas.
3 hour seminar

Every business competes in a certain way.  We call that our "existing business strategy".

In a simple exercise, each participant identifies their existing business strategy and evaluates how effective it has been in addressing their business problem and what might be possible in the future if their existing business strategy were strengthened or altered. 
In this Workshop you will:

• Understand business strategy and its role in your business’ success
• Focus on your most pressing business problem Identify your “existing business strategy” 
• Evaluate the success of your existing business strategy in solving your most pressing business problem 
• Consider what might be possible with a more powerful business strategy.
  

3 hour seminar

Chargeback Seminar

In today’s difficult retail environment, the financial pressures placed on the vendor community have never been greater. Informative seminar on chargeback’s and the impact on your business.
3 hour seminar

Tax Incentive Program: How to make YOUR Business more profitable in the City of Los Angeles

This informative seminar will address:     

• How can your business benefit from "Zone" programs
• Which are the economic development tools that help business owners free up capital so that they can reinvest in their business by purchasing additional machinery and equipment and increasing their work force.   
• What are the two low-interest loan products offered through the City of Los Angeles
  

3 hour seminar