With an unclear economic picture for 2023, it’s important to take advantage of opportunities to make your business more efficient. But your spend management – which may be hindered by manual processes, and paper receipts, card statements, expense reports and invoices – can be a humongous speed bump on the road to efficiency. If your […]
To keep your business competitive in the midst of a labor shortage it may take more implementation of digital finance technology which enables teams to get more done in less time. Technology (including finance technology) has a lot to do with why overall worker productivity is noticeably higher than it was 40 years ago, according […]
Your A/P department’s master vendor file is a crucial part of managing your company’s supply chain assets, providing data for analysis of spend, payment methods, payment terms and rebates. But that data’s only valuable if it’s accurate and reliable. A master vendor file that contains complete, current and uniform data is also a tool for […]
Your A/P staffers are well aware of the ways state revenue departments make life complicated with their ever-changing sales & use tax laws. Seasoned A/P pros are typically able to follow the logic behind some of the unusual sales & use tax requirements out there. For example, in Kansas hot-air balloon rides aren’t taxable because […]
A top priority for your Payroll and A/P teams at the start of 2023 will be processing 1099 forms and getting them into the hands of vendors by the January 31 deadline (the deadline’s Feb. 15, 2023 for Form 1099-MISCs that have data in boxes 8 or 10). As you know, not sending your 1099 […]
Whether your year-end closing is this quarter or still months away, your Finance team needs a strategy for keeping stress low and productivity high while generating those annual balance sheets, profit and loss statements and cash flow statements in case there’s an external audit. Calculating the fiscal year’s business expenses, income, revenue, assets, investments, etc., […]
As you may have expected, almost every state has an economic nexus law requiring certain out-of-state sellers to collect and remit sales tax (the exceptions are Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon). But what you might not be aware of is many local governments also jumped on the South Dakota v. Wayfair e-commerce sales tax […]
Just as your Finance team got the hang of independent contractor classification, the Department of Labor (DOL) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that may make it harder to classify workers as independent contractors. If finalized, the rule would rescind the 2021 independent contractor rule that says the top economic realities test considerations for […]
Your A/P staffers are experts at managing your organization’s payments. However, their work also makes the company vulnerable to business email compromise attacks, which are getting harder to detect. In fact, there were nearly 20,000 reported incidents of business email compromise scams in 2021 – with adjusted losses at nearly $2.4 billion, according to the […]
