Human Capital
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1099 - Should Sales Tax be included in the 1099
Hi, I have vendors that charged sales tax (example purchased of goods). Should I report the sales tax in the 1099 as a compensation? Thanks for your help,
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What do you think is needed in management training?
Let's say you're providing management training seminars to your staff. Who do you send? Who do you send together (i.e., managers and subordinates, peer managers, etc.)? Does it matter what type of seminar for the answer above?
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What is reasonable compensation for LLC management?
My wife and I have our own LLC, which was setup in 2013 as a management company. The initial purpose was to provide the management services for a family LTC LLC started in 2013. That LLC holds real estate (surface and minerals), which requires a property manager, mineral manager, accounting, legal …
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Career advice please. What makes for a better career path?
I have to make a choice between a VP Finance role with an old stable company in a volatile technology sector vs a Controller/Finance Director role at an internet startup with good potential. The VP Finance role will play an important role in trying to grow the company and will involve a lot of tech…
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How do I enroll in on demand courses?
How do I enroll on demand courses? it only let me preview the course.
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Liability Risk: HR Director Threatening Employee
It has come to light from talking to several employees that our HR person threatened another employee with bodily harm in a private meeting last month. The employee was terminated for other reasons unrelated to this incident. I did not believe it at first, but then I asked a few other senior employ…
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Are Employer Paid Health Benefits Taxable 2014?
In Jan 2014, as a result of Obama Care; employer paid health benefits will be taxable as a fringe benefit. I'm looking at it from the perspective of increased tax brackets possibly? Taxing people for something that is currently a benefit? I'm curious what your thoughts are about this?
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Succession planning and succession planning tools
Does your business provide any type of succession planning? Are you preparing your next generation of employees to take over, even if in an "acting" role, if you never hire from within? If you do succession planning do you use any tools, such as what I found on Michigan state government website: ht…
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Telecommuting Best Practices Desperately Needed
The business I work for started to go to hell about a year ago. That's when, in an effort to please some of our often unpleasable employees (okay, I'm a little grumpy) plus keep our office space costs down, we shifted to allowing one day per week of telecommuting to virtually all employees and eve…
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Incomplete I-9 and work continuance
I work for a school district. We have seasonal paid coaches. The selection process is fairly chaotic and untimely, but this is all done by the athletic director. Once hired, we require fingerprinting, criminal history report, I-9, W4, etc. The issue is that the majority of our new coaches are not f…
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Best Time Clock Software
Looking for something that is turn key and easy to use- as well as inexpensive. anyone have any thoughts?
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Leadership Skill Tests
I'm looking for a quality leadership skill assessment test or assessment center for a group of Director Level employees. I have experience with the Dale Carnegie 360 program, as does this group so, any other recommendations would be great!
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Employee Severance Payments - 1099?
What are the IRS reporting requirements for severance payments? If paid through the payroll service then I know we've got it covered. What about lump sum payments that arise after the employee has been terminated? Any thoughts on withholding requirements would also be appreciated.
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I'm horrible in job interviews. What do I do?
I'm interviewing for jobs these days. I've really come face-to-face with the fact that I am horrible at job interviews. Simply horrible. I get so nervous that I come across as not confident and therefor not good at what I do. In reality, I'm skilled at what I do, but for some reason I always choke …
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Is a Masters of Accounting worth it (vs a CPA)?
I graduated from undergrad in the late 90's but never took the CPA exam. As I prepare to study for it now, both due to the time I've been out of school as well as changes to GAAP over the last 15+ years, I am feeling vastly under prepared. At this point in time, I don't feel as if there is an adequ…
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Fallout With An Employer Of 8 Years And Moving On
I have had a falling out with my employer of eight years. I honestly do not know what caused the issue, and they will not explain-just a new Director of HR and suddenly I am persona non-grata. How do I move on and look for a new, exciting, challenging position with an 8 year employment gap? I am ov…
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Creating a Career Changing Elevator Pitch
Constructing and refining an elevator pitch are about as much fun as writing a resume, but the risk of not having and delivering one can keep your career on ice. I am asked often how to do it by millenials. I offer the the following are 5 steps anyone can use to create a quality elevator pitch (pro…
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Resignation & incentive bonus payouts
I've seen a couple other topics addressing this but nothing that quite answers my specific situation. I work for a company in CA that does not have an employment contract per se, but does have a document outlining bonus payouts. Document states that you must be employed through the end of the incen…
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Career Consulting & Job Search Firms
I've been approached on several occasions these last few years by Career Consulting & Job Search firms. Simply, I pay them, they "work" with me to develop the "right" resume, interview techniques as well as introduce me to the "non-published" jobs in their marketplace. One of the large "sale" p…
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CPA or CMA for desired career path?
Hello all, I understand this topic has been widely covered here, and I have already read through those discussions. Nearly all discussions I was able to find are a few years old and did not necessarily pertain to my current situation, so please bare with me. I am 4-5 years out of school with a BS i…
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Certifications in "Financial" Management
I find it very interesting and weird that most of the CFOs and others with prestigious designations in financial management have CPA, CMA or CGMA etc etc. All these certifications have the word “accounting” in it. I always wondered why the certification titles don’t include the word “finance” in th…
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Recruiting Worst Practices
We've all been there... rejected by a potential employer... but sometimes you have to scratch your head.... Be the reason real, imagined, correct or with wild abandonment, some of us have gotten the craziest rejection letters. So let's have some levity. What is the craziest rejection letters (nowa…
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Can an employee opt out of W2 status for 1099 status?
An employee would like to opt out of W2 status to become an independent contractor. His job should be classified as a W2 employee according to the standards provided by the IRS. His job also has risks and therefore I feel he needs to be covered under our Worker's Comp policy.
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Can anyone recommend a well respected Finance headhunter/recruiter in the LA area?
I've recently moved back to LA from Honolulu where I've been serving as Director of Finance and Corporate Controller. I am now searching for a Director of Finance position here in the Los Angeles area. Can anyone recommend a headhunter/recruiter that can help me with my job search. Thanks Peter
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Accreditation
Is there a place on the web site that lists who or what Organizations have accredited Proformative? I realize that there is continuing education and Professional Education Credits that are earned. I realize that in order to achieve a unit of CPE or CPD, there must be some guarantee that certain edu…
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