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New Overtime Rule Increases the Salary Exemption Thresholds
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5 Steps to Deal with your Difficult Employees
Entrepreneurship offers the most even-tempered humans many challenges. One suchDifficult Employees challenge is managing difficult employees who are forever causing havoc. You know who they are. And so does your spouse! One of my favorite clients refers to her difficult employees as her “high-maintenance employees.”
Business Bad Debt
Business bad debt refers to any debt created or acquired in a trade or business (or closely related to a trade or business) that becomes partially or completely worthless and can not be collected. Business bad debt is the result of a customer, another business, or an individual who cannot or refuses to pay their debt obligation to your business for goods and services received or rents owed. Debt may be considered closely related to a business if it was incurred for legitimate business purposes such as lending money to a business owner so the business can pay a supplier or meet payroll cash requirements.
2017 Business Tax Filing Deadlines Have Changed {Infographic}
Busy entrepreneurs need to be aware of several important changes in federal 2017 Business Tax Filing Deadlines for the calendar year ending 12/31/2016. Most notably is now employers have one month less to file Forms W-2 and 1099 MISC with the Federal Government. In the past, this information was due on February 28th. Now both the recipient and the IRS must receive these documents by January 31st. Similarly, Partnership Form 1065 is now due a month earlier on March 15th . On the other hand, C Corporations have an additional month to file Form 1120. Its due date is now April 18th.
Exclusivity Agreement Definition
In business, the term exclusivity refers to a party’s sole rights with regard to a certain business activity. This may include business relationships, pricing, products, or sales. Another application of this term in the business world involves relationships between parties, most notably in the form of exclusivity agreements. This post addresses how two forms of exclusivity agreements or clauses may be useful in business acquisitions and mergers and
strategic business relationships between two or more parties.
Intangible Assets
Intangible assets are those assets in a business which are not physical in nature. Some examples include: intellectual property, (like patents, trademarks, and copyrights), brand recognition, special knowledge, and business methods. Such non-physical assets add value to a company over time and cannot be destroyed in a flood, fire, or other disaster. Rather they can help build up a company should a calamity strike.
Pro Forma Definition
Meaning ‘for the sake of form’, the term pro forma refers to a document that is often provided as a courtesy...
Affordable Care Act 2015 Employer Reporting Requirements
Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must follow specific reporting requirements concerning health...
Latest Intuit Post: How HSAs Save Money
Today's skyrocketing group health insurance premiums coupled with the negative sentiments that many small...
Google Analytics Reports: What Are Visitors Doing on Your Website?
You’ve invested in Search Optimizing your website with better content, meta-code, and Social Media links. Traffic to your site has increased, and you’ve even started to receive more calls and orders. What’s next? The first thing to realize is that SEO is an open-ended process that is never really complete. It comes with victories and setbacks, and you need to be vigilant about the ways in which your web visitors interact with your site.
Keeping Track of Your Competitors’ Intellectual Property
As businesses grow and develop, so do their intellectual property (IP) assets. And if these businesses are engaging in proper IP management, they are filing trademark and patent applications to protect their IP. However, because of the public nature of both trademark and patent prosecutions, one may get an inkling of their competitors’ business plans if they monitor these application filings. Though not a perfect way to predict the exact nature of your competitors’ future offerings, keeping track of IP filings can be a guide to where your competitors are moving.
