Human Capital
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Salary Banding Examples, Formats
I am working on a project for our 200 person technology company to put together a salary band structure in place. Since I am starting with a blank piece of paper, I was wondering if anyone had any structures, formats or examples that could assist me.
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How to value savings from closing offices between Christmas and New Years?
I'm in an industry that is seeing intense pressures from Medicare cuts and need to reduce back office expense. I know there are savings to be had by closing our business offices for the week of Christmas but need to figure out how to value the opportunity. Savings would come from an increase in PTO…
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Did you give your employees the day off on July 5th, since the holiday fell on a Thursday?
If not, did you notice a significant decrease in productivity that day? Or an increased number of "sick" employees?
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Are Defined Benefit Pension Plans becoming too much of a cash drain?
It is not uncommon to read about very large companies taking non-cash charges associated with their defined benefit plans - UPS $3 billion, Boeing $3.1 billion, Ford $5 billion... A defined benefit pension program is a retirement plan funded by the employer, which promises a monthly benefit to the …
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What are most important 401k/403b plan sponsor communication attributes?
I'm working with a 401(k)/403(b) provider and interested in hearing what the CFO and senior HR community believes are the most important plan sponsor communication (or service) attributes you look for when evaluating a retirement plan provider. I'm not looking for plan admin specifics, more, what d…
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Have you used a resume writing service?
I'm looking for a resume writing service for someone 20+ years in commercial building material sales. Have you used a service? If you have, what were the pros/cons for you? Recommendations for selecting a service? Thank you all for your help.
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Certifications for CFO/VP Finance Positions at Late Stage of Career?
I am a 51 year old VP of Finance in transition. Early in my career I did not go the Public Accounting route and therefore did not pursue a CPA certificate. Now as I look at new opportunities most of them are insistent on having the CPA. Do I go back and get the certificate, realizing that I will …
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Job Hunting Question
A group of us were debating an issue that is facing one of the group. He is a COO, lots of experience, not of the generation that went out and got certification after certification. Answered a job wanted ad and was contacted by a recruiter. Now we all know the recruiter works for the prospective em…
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So you are looking for a job...as a senior accounting professional...
... and you're interviewing... ... and you're selling yourself.... What is (from your point of view) a selling point that you shouldn't make? An example would be selling how you worked in the beef industry and just loved the perks of getting filet mignon to a vegan based company.
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Health insurance coverage during non-paid leave of absence?
Time to time we have employees who take Non-paid Leave of Absence. According to our policy, during all Non-paid leave of absence, all other benefits such as health insurance are to be paid by the employee. However, it's a kind of dilema, since the reason of this kind of leave of absence is mostly r…
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Does an employer have to pay out the bonus earned for prior year results if an employee is terminated prior to the bonus pay out date?
If terminated 2/18 and the employer has a policy that en employee must employed on 3/15 to be eligible for bonus pay out, even though the bonus was for the work performed and results of FY12, which ended 12-27-12 final paycheck advice statement was dated 2-18 for period of 3/1-3/31 included a Paid …
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5 Best Things You Can Do In Your Career
I really enjoyed Cindy Kraft's post and subsequent lively discussion in these pages last week about "The 5 Worst Things You Can Do In Your Career." I'm coming up on a transition and have already achieved at least two items on Cindy's "Worst Things" list. Cindy's item #2 looks less than encouraging,…
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Looking for a good incentive program for staff accountants
I want to implement an incentive for a staff accountant who can take on more work than their co-worker. I have a staff where some staff accountants are stronger than the others and I want to reward them and implement an incentive program. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Pursue an MBA?
I'm looking for some career advice. I'm currently a CPA with a CMA soon to come. Worked in public accounting for 5 years and have been an assistant controller in a meduim sized family owned business for the past two. I really enjoy the private side of accounting and my ultimate career goal is to…
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MBA concentration choice?
Hi, I am a Finance IT Business Analyst in a Big Manufacturing company and have over 9 years of IT Experience delivering solutions for Finance processes related to services offered by my company. I have no formal Finance education but being in the field, I have learned a lot of things. My future asp…
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