As we come to the close of a difficult 2008 for many businesses, what sound advice can financial experts offer? BusinessWest asks two teams what we can do to not only get to the other side of the recession, but to get there in good shape ahead of the competition. Some of the advice might be familiar, some might be new, but everyone agrees that the time to act is now. The discussion about whether the nation is in a recession is officially over; the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which gets to call such things, announced late last month that a recession actually started about a year ago.

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