Asking for staffers' input helps increase morale and boosts teamwork. It also leads to great ideas that help companies make and save money. Not all supervisors remember this on a regular basis. It's easy to get tunnel vision and focus…
Staff management
Increasingly clever cybercriminals are out to take your company’s money. They’d even stoop so low as hacking you with a purchase order that looks real. For example, emails with an attachment disguised as a purchase order can contain links to…
Employees who are just getting started on their annual tax filing chores may come to you or other finance staffers for info. A lot of cash-strapped folks will be trying to save money by doing their taxes themselves, but they've…
Hundreds of your C-suite peers retired or stepped down last year, and job-related burnout may have influenced their decisions. Among them were Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, DocuSign CEO Dan Springer and Red Lobster CEO Kelli Valade. More recently, on the…
If you believe workplace polls, more than half of working adults do just about the bare minimum that's required to keep their jobs. And that's because their bosses either aren't aware of the problem or (more commonly) they just let…
Hackers love attacking via email because of how easy it is to do. That's why an ounce of email cyber security can prevent a ton of fraud mitigation. It's critical that all employees who accesses email on your company servers…
Business school students aren't waiting until springtime to apply for jobs and internships anymore. Hiring managers are busy sifting through resumes and applications right now, trying to find the ever-elusive "best fit" for their companies. The good news for employers:…
When you break down your labor costs, it's probably employee base pay that eats up the most money. Yet it's an expense you can't afford to live without because base pay's also a significant factor in employee recruitment and retention…
One trait of good leaders is they instinctively teach and train people so that eventually they're ready to take positions of leadership themselves. While you probably aren't trying to groom your successor, you might have someone in mind for a…
Sales and use tax shouldn't just be the responsibility of your A/P and A/R departments. Although they're the ones who are experts in sales and use tax liability, your sales and purchasing teams can support Finance by double-checking that the…
Some of your people may be excellent at problem solving. But even those team members can occasionally run into problems that seem so complex and overwhelming that they get stuck because they're unsure about where to begin. That’s when it’s…
CEOs, CFOs and departmental managers all get used to fielding "urgent" email and text message requests. If you're like most finance pros, your inbox is at its fullest on Mondays with flagged and exclamation-marked messages needing your attention. (And the…
