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IEDA PodcastGarry Bartecki: Cost Management & Inflation in 2024To kick things off in 2024, I'm excited to be chatting again with our go-to financial guru, Garry Bartecki. Garry served as CFO for several major equipment industry players and currently writes for Equipment Today. If there's a hot financial topic facing dealers, he's the guy with insight. Today we're tackling the 800-lb gorilla that dominated 2023 - inflation. Prices may have peaked, but inflation is still raging. Garry and I map out cost control strategies to help dealers effectively navigate these challenges in the year ahead. We get his take on where the Fed may move...2024-01-2442 min
IEDA PodcastGarry Bartecki: Performance Comparisons Make You StrongerDuring the first quarter of 2023, IEDA conducted an anonymous survey among a small group of members about their financial performance. In this episode, we asked our dealer financial columnist, Garry Bartecki, to provide commentary about the responses, as well as cautions and insight about opportunities. A long-time equipment business CFO and financial expert who has advised dealers in M&A transactions, succession planning, and more, Bartecki has also conducted Cost of Doing Business Reports for associations and has led dealer performance groups. He makes the case for IEDA members to consider how participating in a group of...2023-04-1939 min
IEDA PodcastGet Control of Your Balance Sheet Featuring Garry BarteckiConstruction equipment industry financial guru Garry Bartecki is the Category-of-One expert you want to pay attention to in times like these – soaring inflation, rising interest rates, crazy fuel prices, a labor market in crisis, and a recessionary economic environment, not to mention Washington’s alarming focus on adding a small army of armed IRS agents. Even if you’re not feeling pain yet, warnings from 2008 echo from the grave: Everything is fine, until it isn’t. Here’s the conversation that puts you and your balance sheet under the microscope as a way to proactively keep your equipment...2022-08-2441 min