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The definition of the role of a treasurer or finance committee member includes key themes like “general financial oversight”, fundraising, financial planning, budgeting, monitoring, and strategic planning. It is your job to be a partner to the Executive Director/CEO and help take the organization to the next level. The organization is relying on you forContinue reading “Treasurers and Finance Committee Members – Are you getting what you need to be a valuable board member?”

The birds are nesting, the flowers are blooming and hopefully your profits are soaring as high as those kites flying in the sky.   We have some spring-cleaning financial tips to get your business financial house in order! Pare Down The Paper Crinkled receipts in your wallet?  Filing cabinets overflowing with papers?  Paper clutter can beContinue reading “Spring Clean Your Company’s Financial House”

Spring has sprung and Breakwater could not be more excited! Check out our newsletter for the latest information you need for your business and life! Breakwater Accounting + Advisory April 2021 Newsletter

In a year of uncertainty, there is one thing we can be sure about: your business’s workflows are never going to look the same. The COVID-19 pandemic thrust many companies into the world of cloud-based technology and showed us the need to be flexible, adaptable, and proactive. 

As we mark nearly a full year since COVID became reality and #teambreakwater started working primarily from home, we’re reflecting on the many changes we’ve encountered over the last 12 months. Almost overnight we shifted from mainly a collaborative, lively, office-based environment to sitting at kitchen tables with laptops making sure our clients knew theyContinue reading “Talent + Tech = a match made in heaven”

Breakwater January 2021 Newsletter

We have all been focused on getting out of 2020, and here we are in a new year with continued news sensationalism and a wealth of unknowns. No one is immune to the mental and emotional impact of the global pandemic. The sustained feeling of worry and despair is draining. There have been a lotContinue reading “Plunging into 2021 with Lee Podolsky”

Your Breakwater team is always here to help keep you informed, as of January 15, 2021 here is what we know and you need to know!

We really have two choices as we anticipate the future – fear or hope.  Which are you choosing?  With so many unknowns remaining after a volatile year that generated much fear in all of us, we have the option to lean another way, a braver way, a more vulnerable way, towards hope.  Fear or hope?Continue reading “Fear vs Hope”

Well the holiday season is upon us and so too is the end of calendar year 2020!  2020 was certainly a year that presented businesses with many challenges, yet with that came the opportunity to think creatively and to explore new and different ways of adapting with the hope of sustaining revenue inflows, protecting valuableContinue reading “Wrapping Up 2020”