Check fraud is on the rise again. The U.S. Postal Service just alerted financial institutions that check fraud DOUBLED from 2021 to 2022. Individuals are most at risk for seeing their bank accounts ransacked and identities compromised, but the thieves…
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CFOs hate to hear about poor financial literacy among workers, especially the folks they count as friends. The latest economic news on that front isn't good (though it may be great news for some employers. More on that later.) Just…
Heads up: You may need to ask to see certain employees' Form I-9 documents, even if they were hired several years ago. That's because the flexibility employers had due to COVID-19 will disappear this summer. After multiple extensions of the…
Have you ever asked an employee to do something and didn't get the results you wanted? Most of us had that experience at one time or another. Sometimes you ask for one thing and they hear something completely different! How…
2023 promises to be a very challenging year for Accounts Receivable departments. The word from many in the A/R and credit & collections arena is that customers are stretching payments as far as possible, and past-dues are surging. Inflation and…
The Department of Labor (DOL) has been planning for over a year to revise its overtime exemption regs, with May as its latest deadline. So is the rule imminent? We'd all like to know. After all, if the salary threshold…
Nobody really wants to dock an employee's pay. But sometimes, it's the only step you can take for the sake of your company's bottom line - and in many cases, the person's continued employment. When it comes to docking an…
The worst of the COVID-19 shutdown measures and George Floyd riots peaked less than three years ago. But the effects continue to rattle state governments. Traditionally blue states are losing taxpaying residents and red states are welcoming them in. Democrat…
IRS is extending tax relief to businesses in Broward County, FL affected by the tornadoes, severe storms and flooding from April 12-14. Federal tax filings and tax payments originally due starting April 12, 2023, have been postponed until August 15,…
Elon Musk told an interviewer last week we're in a recession. A second big bank just bit the dust. Mass layoffs continue in certain sectors. There's a lot to be worried about ... unless you're the average small business that's…
Seven months after its release, ChatGPT is being touted as a replacement for a range of occupations. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT (technically a Beta rollout) are being tested against humans in areas like accounting and early results are…
You can't just sit on forfeited retirement plan funds. But what options do you have? IRS has proposed regulations that'll provide clarity for employers. It's a common situation: A business makes employer contributions to a retirement plan it sponsors, but…
