Sapling Financial Consultants Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of an Advisory Board. The Board’s mandate is to provide strategic guidance and foresight to Sapling.

As Canada embarks upon a new stage of innovation, entrepreneurs are facing many challenges in an ultra-competitive environment.

Many companies falsely believe that having a CFO, or a robust financial department, means that they shouldn’t look into an externally built model.

What does “Finance” do? While it may sound like a simple question, it’s actually a very legitimate one, because the answers will be wide-ranging across CFO’s.

4 different ways for small businesses to help reduce their environmental impacts and in many cases, save money.

All of the success cases that we have seen over the years have been an indicator that, when used correctly, financial models can significantly impact the operations of a company.

It is no secret that climate issues have a direct impact on small business performance.

We have all heard sayings like ‘you get what you pay for’ or ‘cheap things end up being expensive’ and professional services are no exception!

a study conducted by BDC found that financing is still one of the key barriers for SMEs to grow

Point-of-sales loans are increasing in popularity and consumers have been choosing to borrow at checkout, instead of financing purchases.

At Sapling, we have seen a lot of financial models, and learned that sometimes growing businesses have assumptions that might push them in the wrong direction.

Sometimes you might be dealing with your sales quotas the same way as slicing your pizza wrong…if one slice is too big, someone might end up with no pizza..

Electric cars and charging stations have become more popular than ever. They present many benefits when compared to conventional petrol/diesel cars.

Cryptocurrencies have become a new investment trend. Everybody is trying to get a piece of the action, including investors, companies and the individuals.

A continuation of our “10 Model Building No-Nos”. Here are eight additional no-no’s when building a new financial model.

Calculating depreciation can be a bit of a pain. For one thing, for many businesses, it’s just one of three ways of accounting for purchases of new fixed assets, besides the investing cash flow and tax depreciation.

When most people think of financial modelling, I’d wager that M&A and valuations come to mind.

How well Toronto stacks up against these 7 cities—at least in terms of a very limited measure, its subway.

After a relaxing summer filled with debugging MySQL queries and tweaking Windows forms, I’ve completed a prototype of EngagementPro, a piece of software designed to assist accountants with managing their workloads.

TTC fares and operator wages have grown in lockstep, at about double the rate of inflation, and double the rate of most Ontarians’ household income

Fare hikes. Crowded subways. Funky smells. Surly drivers. For many of us in Toronto, a two-way commute on the TTC is a reality five days a week.

Personal busy-ness at work gave me the chance to apply some of the insights I got into hewing to the high-level in consulting.

Having worked with a large variety of Excel-based models, in a number of different settings, I’ve seen a lot of practices that seriously undermine the usability of a model. Here are my top 10: