Human Capital
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Time management course for finance?
Can anyone recommend a time management course that would be good for a controller type? My controller is having a hard time keeping up with her duties. She does fine on the daily and weekly stuff but the monthly, quarterly and annual tasks seem to get away from her. (I just received notice that we …
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Association of Certified Chief Financial Officers
Has anyone heard of this organization? http://www.accfo.com/ My concerns based on their website is: Your resume is reviewed and Certification is granted, so long as you are a member. If you're "Certified" you're "Certified", although you may not be "active" (just like being licensed a CPA. Who are …
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Employee Bonuses: If an employee started mid-year, are you paying them a bonus?
If so, are you paying a full bonus? Or calculating a bonus amount based on the time actually worked in 2013?
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Are internships the best choice after college?
I have a BS in Aviation Business Management and a recent MBA graduate the MBA is not specialized just MBA. My school does not offer or include internships in any way, and internet search of internships here and abroad are causing search overload because of to many opinions and not enough facts. So …
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Acceptable Use policies
Does your company have, use and monitor its employees vis a vis Acceptable Use policies? Examples of different policies are: - Computer and E-Mail Acceptable Use Policy - Internet Acceptable Use Policy - Password Protection Policy - Social Media and Blogging Policies From Other Sites
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Can An Employee Provide Outside Services
We have a situation where an employee is offering to make a video of a company event and charge a fee. The Company could hire an outside videographer but the employee's work is just as good. This is not the employees primary work responsibility. We also have a situation where another employee is of…
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What's your company's severe weather policy?
Obviously this varies depending on the area you live, but here in the Dallas area, things pretty much shut down when we get more than a dusting of snow. When employees aren't able to make it into work, we don't make them use PTO or sick leave, but I was curious what other companies out there are do…
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Is it legal for an employer to take you out of your commission based department during work hours?
I am a Commission + Base sales associate at Sears. I was recently asked to leave my commission-able department to assist in an area in which i would not make sales. I was asked and said no, and further expressed my concern of " moving me out of my commission-able department would take away any oppo…
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Do you think an unlimited vacation policy is a good idea?
Some employers worry employees will take advantage of it, but most studies show it actually decreases the amount of vacation employees take. What do you think?
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CPA License Experience - Corporate Accounting/Finance
I am currently working as a staff accountant for a publically traded corporation. I would like to stay in corporate accounting/ finance and eventually work my way up. I have taken a look job descriptions for finance managers, controllers, etc. just out of curiosity (not yet qualified.) Most of them…
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Human Resources: When do you need Internal HR Expertise?
I work for a small healthcare laboratory with less than 50 employees and we are entertaining a company "Inspirity" to come in and handle our healthcare benefit, employee costs, workers comp, 401k, employment attorney fees, etc. We are doing everything ourselves and we don't know if this is wise to …
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Whether to respond to a posting from a Headhunter
I have a similar situation to a previous post in which I accepted back in late July, what was and still could be the perfect position. I interviewed with the CEO / Owner and we hit it off immediately. My predecessor was very laid back and did the job and nothing more. I on the other hand am very ou…
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What is the proper way to roll-out an ethics program?
In my experience - Ethics policies are tucked within a company’s code of conduct. Prior to year-end every employee is required to go on-line and review the policy and click on a little button on the bottom that states, “Accept.” Employees open the training material and go right to the last page…
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Accounting Career Path Planning Advice Needed
Hi Experts, I want your guidance as at this stage I am very confused. Brief about myself: I am currently in IT profession working as SAP FICO Consultant having around 6+ years of experience. I have done MBA in Finance and Bachelors in Commerce. My Long term goals are to become CFO. I am looking for…
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CFOs of growth companies mustn't limit themselves to finance. In the absence of a strategic HR leader, they are the most likely partner of the CEO to provide HR leadership…
"Finance chiefs of growth companies need to direct human resources strategy, says a leading consultant.", so say Robert Siler in a recent CFO.com article. Are we really equipped to handle to convoluted and often chaotic rules and regulations of HR or should we stick to the more strategic issues of …
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Talent Shortage or an Unwillingness to Teach?
High unemployment yet companies say they are unable to fill their vacancies with talented people. Is it a paradox or simply a change in the way companies do business these days? Companies used to have a wide range of trainee programs and showed a willingness to teach new employees the skills necess…
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How do you overcome objections from the CEO?
Any advice on how to get past life's series of "no" you can't do that? 1.) Members of our leadership team aren't playing to their strengths, can we realign roles and responsibilities to help them succeed? "No" 2.) Our product-to-market strategy is falling short of our goals, can we bring in an expe…
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With the holidays approaching, I'm curious about how other companies are handling them.
We usually only give the actual day off (Thanksgiving, Christmas) but with Christmas falling on a Wednesday this year, I know employees are going to want to take off the days surrounding it. How many days do you give employees off, and how do you handle additional PTO requests during the holidays?
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