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Employee Records: End of year review & preparing for next year

BMT Office Administration

This category can also include awards, promotion records, and education/training records. These documents include payroll records, time cards, pay rate information, and anything else related to payment. How long should you keep tax, payroll , and benefits records? Compensation. Post-employment records.

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Small Business Saturday and New Localism

Small Business Labs

Today is Small Business Saturday , a promotion by American Express designed to get more people spending money at locally owned, independent merchants.      As part of their promotion, AMEX was kind enough to subsidize my purchases with a $25 credit.    Tags: local.

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It’s time to review (or create) your document retention policy

BMT Office Administration

Sticking to a set record retention policy eliminates guesswork and promotes efficiency. Each employer shall preserve for at least three years payroll records, collective bargaining agreements, sales and purchase records. Smart businesses ease such concerns with proactive measures.

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Business finance: The ultimate guide for non-finance people

BMT Office Administration

Or were you recently promoted to a financial role in your organization? Businesses have to incur lots of expenditures just to operate, including payroll , acquiring assets like vehicles & real estate, and day-to-day expenses (like a restaurant maintaining their inventory of condiments, food ingredients, and beverages).

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

Joint ventures : One of my favorite strategies, this involves partnering with another outfit that already has a preexisting audience in order to promote yourself. Avoid putting this person on the payroll if you can, because then you’ll have to wade through a lot of red tape related to taxes, insurance, benefits and the like.