February 21, 2020
How to Keep HR Risks From Disrupting Your Business
Getting sued for overtime wages, having a key employee take an unexpected leave of absence, dealing with employee grievances — many employers have learned the hard way how HR problems can disrupt a business. And dealing with these HR risks just keeps getting more and more complicated. Take payroll rules and taxes, for example. The …
February 4, 2020
To Keep Growing, Mid-Market Companies Need the Right Tools
As a mid-market company grows, its owners and managers need stronger technology tools to sustain those results. Spreadsheets and accounting packages better suited for a small startup just aren’t enough anymore. Your basic financial results – captured by your profit and loss statement – remain important, of course. But you also need to improve your …
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January 29, 2020
Why You Need a Tax Strategy for Business Licenses
Business licenses are required for businesses operating in most cities. Depending on your location, and where you have staff, you are likely required to file a business license tax return. This is a local tax, and it can be quite burdensome. Note that unlike income tax returns, which are based on profit (taxable income), many …
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Finding the Right Leaders for Your Middle-Market Company
People usually fill multiple roles in a startup’s early days. But at some point, having the COO help pack orders or the controller buy office supplies becomes unsustainable. As your company reaches the middle-market and attracts larger customers and, potentially, outside investors, management roles become more specialized and require skills that are different than the …
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January 7, 2020
Adaptive Insights’ New Partner Accreditation Program Can Help You Compare Providers
Business planning cloud solution Adaptive Insights recently announced a new Partner Accreditation program that provides a way for businesses to differentiate among Adaptive Insights providers. If you’re looking for an Adaptive Insights vendor and aren’t sure of their qualifications or experience, it will help you understand how Adaptive Insights rates them. The Partner Accreditation program …
January 2, 2020
Optimizing Your Middle-Market Company’s Finance Function
As a startup graduates to the middle market, its finance function needs to become more complex, and its finance team has to provide management and investors with more detailed information about the company’s performance, growth opportunities and challenges. For a mid-market company to thrive, you have to go beyond the “are we making money, and …
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December 19, 2019
Financial Services Firms: Preparing for 2020 (and Beyond) With Preemptive Partnerships
The end of the year is a time for looking backwards and forwards. Tech experts have spent plenty of time doing the latter, and they’re out with a spate of predictions for the trends (both positive and negative) that will affect financial services firm in 2020. Some firms will experience a greater impact than others, …
December 18, 2019
Lessons Learned at Sage Intacct Advantage
Every year we attend the Sage Intacct Advantage conference, a gathering of customers and partners, but this year was something special. Our own Scott Schimberg was presented with the Jered Cady Award for his excellence and evangelism within the Sage Intacct community, and Armanino was also named to the 2019 Sage Intacct President’s Club, a …