Matthew Tercsak - Why All Business Leaders Need Accounting Skills

Matthew Tercsak came to the business world from the retail sector. He started his own business, Mystik, Inc., a retail shop in Orlando, Florida in 1995 and quickly found new ways to use his experience and skill managing employees and being responsible for many business operations, as he was as a manager for another store in Pittsburgh. Tercsak took over many regular business operations for his new company and built its reputation from the ground up. Managing a business takes many skills and all of his time, but Tercsak finds it hugely rewarding and loves providing products for his community. 

                                   

Matthew Tercsak quickly found that his skills managing payroll and his basic understanding of accounting were greatly needed. He learned quickly and soon began managing his employees’ payroll concerns and his business’s budget and income. All business leaders need accounting skills to effectively manage their businesses so that they can find ways to cut costs while still increasing income. Budgeting is one of the most important skills all business owners need to make sure that they are not headed for debt when they don’t need to be. At a certain point, it pays to hire a dedicated accountant, but often, when first starting a business, it’s not cost-effective yet, so small business leaders have to work on their balance sheets on their own. 

Matthew Tercsak has built Mystik into a successful business by applying his experience as a manager in Pittsburgh in a retail setting to Mystik. He has learned much over his career.

Matthew Tercsak - Three Ways to Improve Your Professional Writing

Matthew Tercsak took his degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh and used it in a different way than most English graduates do. He used his skill crafting sentences to start a business for himself in Orlando, Florida, after he had gained some experience working in a retail setting as a manager for the local Pittsburgh business Tela Ropa. He has honed his professional writing skills over the years as he has managed his business in Orlando to bring in more customers and revenue. Here are three ways to improve your professional writing: 

• Don’t betray a readers’ trust. At the heart of all good writing in all forms or contexts is the responsibility of the writer to not betray a reader’s trust. In professional writing, when Matthew Tercsak often has to quote facts and figures, he verifies these facts from multiple sources so that readers know they can rely on what he writes.
• Give it a rest. Good writing usually benefits from the writer standing up from the desk and taking a break from it. After writing, editing, and rewriting as necessary, a day or two and another reading will show more things that could be corrected and made better in the writing piece.
• Be concise. Even if you’re getting paid by the word, editors and the purchasers of content appreciate a few words saying the same thing as a thousand. That’s a bit extreme, but professional writers have to be careful with their words to convey a fact or point of view in as little of the reader’s time as possible.

Matthew Tercsak has used his training as a writer and a published poet to the business world, where he crafts consistently effective copy and business communications.