Vital Signs
__  1.   Are your sales up, but profits, down?
__  2.   Are you experiencing high turnover in people?
__  3.   Do you have high absenteeism?
__  4.   Are your medical claims up compared to last year?
__  5.   Are your worker's compensation claims up?
__  6.   Have you found more than three invoices (A/P) that have been paid twice?
__  7.   Are your Accounts Receivable greater and more days out than six months ago?
__  8.   Are your bad debts (write offs) increased over last year?
__  9.   Are your customers constantly telling you they can buy cheaper from others?
__  10. Has anyone recently told you your products can be bought more cheaply from "other sources" ?
__ 11.  Do your employees spend a lot of time in the parking lot or in their cars during break or lunch times?
__ 12.  Have you been spending more for maintenance supplies and other non-inventory items?
__  13. Is your productivity rate what it should be for your business/industry?
__  14. Have your unit costs increased beyond your budgeted figures?
__  15. If you sell products that employees could normally use, have your employee purchases fallen off in the past year?
__  16. Have you observed, or has anyone indicated to you, that an employee might be living beyond his/her means?
__  17. Are you experiencing quality problems such as high paper or manufacturing errors, scrap, damaged goods, and customer dissatisfaction with product or service?
__  18. Are you issuing more credits than usual?
__  19. Have customers complained about goods or services billed but not received?
__  20. Has your fixed overhead increased, but sales declined?
__  21. Have your inventories been short?
__  22. Are you experiencing a lot of "out of stocks"?
__  23. Have you had more workplace accidents than in previous years?
__  24. Has your bank notified you of deposit discrepancies lately?
__  25. Have you experienced cash shortages in the register or petty cash fund in the past year?
__  26. Does the same person who makes out bank deposits also reconcile the bank statements?
__  27. Have the number of complaints from your employees increased lately?
__  28. Are there people who have keys to your property that should no longer have them?
__  29. Have you noticed a personality change or frequent mood swings in any of your employees?
__  30. Do you have a gut feeling that things are not what they should be, or that they could be much better?
__  31. Do you perceive your morale to be low or lower than in the past?
__  32. Have you continued to put off doing an employee manual or handbook?
__  33. Have you recently put a cap on all employee pay raises?