85: Understanding Your Business as an Investment with Greg Crabtree

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we are delighted to be speaking to one of the most solid and savvy people ever when it comes to finances and business! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greg Crabtree is a partner at Carr, Riggs, and Ingram, and he is the author of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple Numbers</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Greg knows how to make accounting and cash-flow management very clear, easy to understand, and efficient. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He is joining us today to share his journey, discuss his views on what is happening in mergers and acquisitions (M & A), and explain what business owners should consider when looking at their finances.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope you gain a lot from today’s conversation with Greg Crabtree!</span></p> <p><strong>Greg Crabtree’s bio</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greg Crabtree is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, and financial expert. Crabtree has used his entrepreneurial skills to develop Crabtree, Rowe & Berger, PC, a CPA firm focused solely on the needs of entrepreneurs, helping them build the economic engine of their businesses. Working with entrepreneurs all over the country in a broad range of industries, Greg has simplified financial reporting and empowered all entrepreneurs to take ownership of their finances. He has pioneered a revolutionary metric for driving business profitability: measuring labor efficiency and developing simple benchmarks for company, team, and individual performance. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2011, Greg published his first book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits,</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">in which he shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine. His second book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple Numbers 2.0</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was releas