Ridiculous you say? Not really. Ask most any service or professional provider what part of their business they dislike most and you are apt to hear some version of the word “Sales.” They might not label their dislike as ‘fear’ but it’s buried down there somewhere.Fear is an interesting thing. We all carry it around [...]
We have often come across news articles screaming about how the Boss of an renowned company sacked its employees, how a job-seeking engineer found out that every new employer initially keen on employing him lost interest after checking his references or the clichéd situation where an employee lost his temper and stormed out of his [...]
Invoice factoring is a great option for cable installers. It gives them an opportunity to raise money without resorting to the use of bank loans. Bank loans have historically been difficult to qualify for unless a company had been in business for a certain number of years. They would also have to gather and hand [...]
Electroplating is the process of coating an electrically conductive object with a layer of metal using electrical current. Generally this process is used to deposit an adherent surface layer of a metal to a substance lacking that property.Electroplating is used in many types of industries for both functional and decorative purposes. One well-known example of [...]
One of the most valuable things that a business owns is the data that they have on the computers in the office. However, as the years pass there is a lot of data storing up on the computer and it is important that the data is not lost.There is a process called data archiving in [...]
Simple answer: YES – When you trade hours for dollars! When I first started my freelance practice, I established an hourly rate and used it for all of the services I provided. I soon realized… If I wasn’t performing client work, I wasn’t making money, and;The more proficient I became as a freelance bookkeeper, the [...]
There is little information about the budgets that must be known by the IT contractors and the contractor accountants. Every year, budget changes which not only effects the common people but also, many corporate sectors and the people who are independent.The details of budgets that are affecting the IT contractors will soon be published as [...]
One of the most popular ways for people to pay you when you own a small business is with a check. It’s certainly worth your while to accept checks, since they have lower fees than credit cards and can’t be charged back.But there are potential dangers to accepting checks, including the possibility of fraud or [...]
For consultants, contractors, and other professionals How much money do you leave on the table, and how many jobs do you lose, by the way you price your work and send out invoices? This is a regular topic of discussion at our Business Group meetings. I’ve pulled together notes from several such discussions. It’s pretty long [...]
As in any area of activity, business loans and finance raising has its own jargon. This series of articles are intended to give brief explanations in plain English of some of the common terms used from ‘accounting concepts’ through to ‘yield’.This four part guide is intended as a practical one for owner managers. So it [...]
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