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2015 Financial Goals
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Over the last couple of years I’ve posted our financial goals on My Own Advisor. Some fellow bloggers have noted this might be a bold move but I don’t consider it too daring.  Other bloggers have reported on their goals for certain reasons but here are my reasons for doing so:
Over the last couple of years I’ve posted our financial goals on My Own Advisor. Some fellow bloggers have noted this might be a bold move but I don’t consider it too daring.  Other bloggers have reported on their goals for certain reasons but here are my reasons for doing so:
I believe all goals should be clear and transparent,
I believe all goals should be realistic,
I believe all goals should be measured, and
I believe all goals should be documented.
In my day job and industry, if things are not documented they didn’t happen. Making our goals clear, realistic, monitoring them for progress and writing them down should increase our chances of hitting the mark. Except for one objective we nailed all our financial goals last year. Did we get lucky? Maybe but I would like to think we realized our 2014 financial goals because our objective-setting and monitoring processes are working.
So, 2015 will be no exception folks and without further ado here are our 2015 financial goals…
Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk delivers her 2014 report during a press conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)Another auditor general (AG)’s report was grabbing headlines last month. It’s a common refrain: billions wasted by incompetent bureaucrats. Reporters gobble it up. Opposition politicians express outrage. Citizens’ trust in the government suffers another blow.
Yet when one digs deeper, the story is more nuanced. The headline number quoted in the AG’s press release may be subject to interpretation. It may represent only one (sensational) side of the story. Worse yet, the report may be substituting the judgment of auditors, who are not required to demonstrate either management or operational experience, for the judgment of the professional managers running the organization.
It’s no accident that private sector business owners rarely turn to their auditors to run the business. Auditors are trained to provide assurance that firms are presenting their financial results in a fair and complete way…
