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Another November Surprise: Federal Court Blocks New Overtime Rule From Going Into Effect
By Anna Masker In standard9th December, 2016
This week we’ve asked Lisa Fried-Grodin, an attorney with Meyers Fried-Grodin LLP to be our guest blogger and give us some insights into the changing situation with the new overtime laws. Another November Surprise: Federal Court Blocks New Overtime Rule From Going Into Effect By Lisa I. Fried-Grodin Today, the United States District Court for
Bye-Bye Bookkeeper, Your Job is Becoming Obsolete
By Anna Masker In standard30th November, 2016
I’m just going to say, I’m glad we offer advisory and other services outside of bookkeeping, because if I were a straight-up bookkeeper today, I’d be seriously concerned about my job. That’s the message I took away from a recent accounting conference I attended after first-hand discussions with various technology providers exhibiting. Technology is making
Death by DIY
By Anna Masker In standard17th November, 2016
The client called me almost 6 months after we had originally spoken. They had chosen to take our suggested solution and implement it themselves, saying it was cheaper to do it in house rather than to hire us. Six months later, what they had was a bigger mess than what they started with. Unfortunately, they
Are you “flying blind?”
By Anna Masker In standard11th November, 2016
Often, we speak to business owners who feel they don’t have clear visibility on their numbers or what drives their businesses’ performance. Time and again they use the same phrase…”I’m flying blind.” Normally these are businesses that are struggling in some capacity, whether it is managing cash flow or profitability, or trying to understand what’s
Squirrel!!!
By Anna Masker In standard3rd November, 2016
It’s conference season for me. I’ll admit, at these conferences I’m like a kid in a candy shop. It’s the new technology that gets me excited, and there are so many new developments even since last year, it’s unbelievable. I find myself saying again and again, “oh, we could use that…” or, “our client would LOVE
Spooked by Risk?
By Anna Masker In standard24th October, 2016
There was once a time that my kids hated the scary characters roaming the street on Halloween. They would give every ghoul or goblin a full 6 feet of clearance as we passed, and would cling to my hand a little tighter. I miss those days. Now my kids are all over Halloween,
Pay attention to Project Velocity
By Anna Masker In standard13th October, 2016
Here’s a common scenario: You are in your post-project wrap up meeting. The team finished the project under budget and within the allotted hours. The client is satisfied with the work and everyone on the team starts congratulating themselves on a “job well done.” Except no one mentions that the project took 3 months longer
Managing by Matching
By Anna Masker In standard29th September, 2016
Sometimes when we do our monthly reviews with clients, a theme appears. This month it was matching. Matching means making sure that revenues and expenses are matched in the same period. In layman’s terms it simply means if you invoiced a client for work done in that month, you want to make sure all the
What’s in your playbook?
By Anna Masker In standard23rd September, 2016
It’s football season, and with it comes the donning of team jerseys, trips to football stadiums, and Monday-morning quarterbacking. It got me thinking about team playbooks. Guarded like gold, and critical to a team’s success, a player wouldn’t be allowed on the field without having memorized all the plays. Yet, many businesses operate every day
Put the business book DOWN!
By Anna Masker In standard31st August, 2016
I struggled to write this post, because frankly, I LOVE business books. I mean I really love them. I read about 1 every two weeks (well, technically I don’t read them, I listen to them.) If you check out my Audible account it’s pretty ridiculous the number of books I have in my library.