From the Flight Deck
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September 2020 Update
This month we released some new dashboards for the following roles: Client, Staff, Instructor & Chief Instructors along with some additional features that we describe below. New Dashboards Client Dashboard The new dashboard cards include: Activity - Showing...
Corporate and Business Strategy
Corporate Strategy defines what business and markets you should be in. In other words, are you in the FBO business that also provides flight training or a flight school that provides FBO services? Many businesses suffer from lack of identity as a result of...
Leadership
Armed with a defined mission and strong, clear strategies it is up to you to execute successfully. Leadership is the process that gives people a genuine sense of purpose and energizes them to willingly put forth their individual and collective efforts to achieve...
Managerial Accounting
While Financial Accounting is necessary and useful for external stakeholders you are likely much more interested in Managerial Accounting, or Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis. These reports are useful for managers to better understand historical performance and more...
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting refers to the identifying, measuring, and communicating financial information to help investors and other external stakeholders make informed decisions. This information is presented in an Income Statement (also referred to as Profit & Loss...
Functional Strategy
Functional Strategy, or competitive tactics, are the actions taken within the business to support the business level strategy. Now that you have defined your role in the marketplace, what is your strategy to deliver operational excellence and customer value?...