Does your management team feel they receive information about your company and operations in an understandable and timely format to run their departments? The results of the question will be helpful on two levels. One, and most important, it will reveal the fiscal fitness of your company. Two, it will serve as a guide to help you evaluate risks you take relative to potential gain.

Risk is what happens when you are not looking. Which is why, what you do not know about your business can cost you your business. Sticking out your balance sheet and coughing gets you the information you need to know in time for needed procedures which can mean the difference between life and death, in your product, business, department, life or job.