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Lining Up Your Employee Benefits Program for 2020
Now is the time to make your employee benefits plans for the coming year. What you offer depends on what your company can afford, so ... -
Budgeting Now for 2020
Now that we’re in the fourth quarter of 2019, it’s time to craft your budget for the coming year. This is an annual chore that ... -
FBAR Reporting for Business Accounts
FBAR (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts) The government filed a lawsuit against a person seeking $4 million in penalties for his failure to ... -
The Minimum Wage Conundrum: What Can You Do?
Small businesses consider their options in the face of rising minimum wage rates Currently, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 hour. But many states and ... -
Cash Flow Woes and What You Can Do
According to Intuit’s The State of Small Business Cash Flow, “69% of small business owners say they have been kept up at night by ongoing ... -
Best Strategies for Your Loan Applications
You may need a loan to expand your business, undertake a marketing campaign, purchase equipment or a building, or for some other very good purpose. ... -
Borrowing: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
According to the March 2019 NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, more than half (51%) of owners reported that they weren’t interested in a loan. But ... -
Special Tax Breaks for Farmers
The majority of the more than 2 million farms in the U.S. are small businesses. The USDA says that “in 2016, farms organized as pass-through ... -
Disability Coverage for Owners and Employees
It’s an unfortunate fact that the chances of becoming disabled are too high to be ignored. According to Council for Disability Awareness, 1 in 4 ... -
5 Ways Higher Interest Rates May Affect Your Business
The Federal Reserve has raised its federal funds rate (referred to as the fed funds rate) several times this year and expects to have additional increases ...
