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By Ali Waterman | Harkcon’s Financial Specialist When running a small business, a budget is a great tool to help manage expenses and forecast cash flow. Setting up a good budget can help make strategic financial decisions while minimizing the time you spend tracking expenses. Here are 5 tips to creating and managing an effective budget. Use Your Accounting System – A great way to set up a budget is to align it with your accounting system. Your accounting system will have a ch

By Ann Martin | Harkcon's Vice President and Business Development Specialist Determining whether or not to bid on a new opportunity is fairly complex. Most organizations require business development professionals to develop and document a Probability of Win (PWin) for each new opportunity being considered. As with all corporate activities – there is a budget line item for developing proposals and determining how to invest those dollars where they will result in the best retu

By Melissa Otero | Harkcon's Program Manager ICS can be used during out of the ordinary incidents that may require a response; during critical incidents or disruptive events within your organization; and during pre-planned events that require an organized response from your organization. ICS can also be used during large incidents near your organization that will require a response from your organization and during incidents when you will provide logistical support to a la

By Melissa Otero | Harkcon's Program Manager The Incident Command System, or ICS, is a model that is used widely throughout the United States. ICS can be found in the National Response Framework and it is essentially the foundation to the National Incident Management System, or NIMS. The ICS is the Command and Control part of the NIMS plan. The National Incident Management System (NIMS) was devised as the ultimate model for how our country would respond to emergencies. ICS