Avoiding State Payroll Taxes
You’ve got a number of taxes to worry about. Maybe you should opt out of paying state taxes when that’s possible. The trick to keeping your payroll processing quick and simple is to minimize the busy...
View ArticleCalifornia Payroll Tax Forms Prepared in Five Minutes
You can expedite preparation of California’s employer quarterly tax returns by simplifying. If you’re preparing the California payroll tax forms for a single shareholder-employee corporation, you can...
View Article10 Obamacare Facts Small Business Owners Must Know
The Affordable Care Act burdens small businesses with a number of complexities. Lots of small business, I suspect, have ignored the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law we all better know as...
View ArticleHiring Your Children as a Tax Loophole
Hiring your son or daughter can save you thousands in taxes Thinking about hiring your children as a tax loophole? Probably because it’s summer, several clients and friends have recently asked me about...
View ArticleGetting Smart about Past Due Taxes and Tax Returns
Past due taxes and tax returns are stressful One of the biggest tax-related stresses people encounter is the situation where they accumulate several years of past due taxes and tax returns. Often,...
View ArticleForm 3115 for a Cash to Accrual Method Accounting Change
You may need to switch from cash basis to accrual basis accounting if your business grows big enough. Most small businesses use cash-basis accounting for their operations. And that makes sense. First...
View ArticleThe Rich Get Poorer: the Myth of Dynastic Wealth
Entrepreneurs and small business owners can learn useful lessons from the errors in Thomas Picketty’s theory In the recent paper, “The Rich Get Poorer: the Myth of Dynastic Wealth,” Robert D Arnott,...
View ArticleHow to Choose Inventory Tracking Software
Think about this, a customer calls in to make an order from your company. Your customer service rep fumbles around due to old, outdated software that’s slow and not meant for a growing business. They...
View ArticleHow to Build the Right Inventory Managment System
Questions to ask so you can make the right choices Years of handwriting SKU numbers or getting buried in piles of spreadsheet printouts have finally gotten the best of you. Handling frustrated...
View Article5,000 Ways 2D Barcodes are Helping Amazon
5,000 Ways 2D Barcodes are helping Amazon Washington based Amazon.com has announced a new shipping policy which will add 2D barcodes to all of its boxes. While this policy will not be put in place...
View ArticleHow Common Core math can help close the equity gap
SmartBrief Education’s Path to Workforce content series brings you original content and events on the topic. Path to Workforce is our vision of college and career readiness, encompassing K-12, adult...
View ArticleWhat everyone can learn from Twitter
The naming of Jack Dorsey this week as Twitter’s permanent CEO brings closure to the last quarter of leadership limbo. It allows the organization to begin moving forward, reinventing itself and its...
View ArticleBad hires affect everything — or, the Matt Williams story
I live in Washington, D.C., and go to about 15 Washington Nationals home games each year. I have an interest in the team’s performance and leadership, if only for all the hours and dollars I spend on...
View ArticleTop 10: Rising food prices, “smart shelf” technology, Chick-fil-A and more in...
Tweet News on two big food retailers emerged among the most popular stories of this week: Kroger announced that it will experiment with digital shelf technology at its stores. The technology, developed...
View ArticleSelf-management Is the other half of self-awareness
Everyone says self-awareness is essential to effective leadership. It is, but there is another aspect to awareness that may be equally compelling and sadly overlooked. It’s self-management. It’s one...
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