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Strategies to Enhance Cash Flow

By Joel A. Rose
December 01, 2003

Part Two of a Two-Part Article

Managing partners, financial partners, members of executive committees and administrators must devote more of their time today, than in the past, to planning and managing their firms' finances and those functions that improve the cash flow. Part One of this article described the first three of six aspects of law firm management and economics that the author has recommended to assist them in improving their firm's cash flow: 1) cash flow; 2) a business plan; 3) budgets for revenues, expenses and client advances. Part Two examines the remaining aspects: 4) partner compensation; 5) a recommended new business and billing committee; and 6) partners' capital and borrowing.

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