Securing an unpaid debt is challenging enough. The last thing any company wants to do is undermine its efforts by forgetting to cover all the necessary legal bases. A simple one to avoid? The so-called "mini-Miranda" warning required under the…
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It may be wise to evaluate your 2023 T&E budget one more time because hotel prices worldwide are expected to go up again, according to American Express Global Business Travel. A combination of pent-up demand for in-person meetings and ongoing…
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…
The coronavirus pandemic reinforced lessons that experienced CFOs knew but might have taken for granted. For example: You're better off not relying too heavily on one vendor for critical company needs. You never know when a vendor may be in…
We’ve all been there: inaccurate vendor payments disrupting cash flow and costing your company a bundle. And there are so many reasons why they happen. Maybe an A/P staffer got distracted and didn't record a payment at the time it…
Make sure Payroll knows the latest on what to look for when examining new employees’ documents for Form I-9 purposes. Recently, USCIS extended the validity of Permanent Resident Cards employees may present for I-9 purposes. As of Sept. 26, 2022,…
One nice thing about fixed expenses is that they stay constant and usually don’t fluctuate. The bad news, they’re usually set in stone and can’t be cut if you’re looking to lower expenses. But according to Aaron Evett, director of…
As you prepare your salary budgets for 2023, it’s important to know employees’ expectations in terms of pay and perks so you can avoid having to replace your best people in the new year and retain those you bring on…
When a person asks, "How much money will I need in retirement?" the only honest way to answer is with, "It depends." What's most helpful is steering the person's thinking in another direction so they can take honest stock of…
When your peers were asked in August what they were planning to do with their 2023 annual salary increase budgets, not many said they were planning to freeze salaries. Salary increase budgets are likely to be larger than this year's…
To accommodate the needs of as many vendors as possible, your business may need to use a combination of electronic payment methods. Electronic payments are a win-win. Your vendors will love that they can get paid faster and your CFO…
Because inflation's forced the Fed to raise interest rates, making the cost of capital higher, it's mission-critical to carefully manage the cash your company has on hand to avoid going outside your own cash flow for working capital. That's the…
