“Clever girls” is a popular, music-focused Bay Area Facebook group that was started by a Facebook user known as “Concert Raptor” who wanted to bring people together and give away tickets to shows. Courtesy of Ari the Raptor Just before the 2015 edition of San Francisco’s Outside Lands music festival, a mysterious Facebook user who […]

Why do people resist change? That’s easy: It’s only natural to resist something we believe may negatively impact our jobs or careers. We also fear failing at change. However, company leaders need the courage to do what’s best even if it’s scary. In past blogs, I’ve talked about our journey to cloud-based software and have […]

Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China, speaks on the second day of the 56th Munich Security Conference. Tobias Hase | Picture Alliance via Getty Images MUNICH — China’s Foreign Minister said Saturday that the Chinese economy — the second-largest in the world — will emerge stronger from the deadly coronavirus outbreak, even as confirmed cases […]

Attorney General William Barr listens as President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks and signs the Operation Lady Justice Executive Order to address the issue of missing and murdered Native Americans in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images […]

Everyone wants to know how they’re doing. As a small business owner, this is critical to your survival. Because franchises often operate on tighter margins, knowing where to pull back on certain expenses (for example, marketing) or where to negotiate harder (for example, leasing property) or where to invest (buying new equipment) matters. If you’re […]

Members of media gather at the Diamond Princess cruise ship, operated by Carnival Corp., docked in Yokohama, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Toru Hanai | Bloomberg Getty Images Japanese health officials are allowing the most vulnerable guests quarantined on the Diamond Princess docked just off of Yokohama to leave the cruise ship and complete […]

For many businesses, their bookkeeping causes a lot of pain. However, when handled correctly, there are many pains that proper bookkeeping can remedy. Common reasons that bookkeeping causes pain are: it is intimidating, people don’t like it, and it’s often way behind because it gets pushed to the back burner.  It is crucial to keep […]

The IRS proposed new regulations (REG-132741-17) for withholding on individuals’ wages to reflect the statutory changes in the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, P.L. 115-97, including the elimination of the personal exemption. The proposed rules and the new Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Certificate (formerly titled Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate) no longer […]

Patrick Harker, President of Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, during the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole symposium in Wyoming. Gerard Miller | CNBC Interest rates should stay where they are as the economy grows and the consumer continues to be in good shape, Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said Wednesday. A voter this year on the […]

The Federal Reserve is “closely monitoring” the coronavirus, its impact on China and the effect that it could have on global economic growth, Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday. In his semiannual testimony before Congress, Powell said the new threat comes just as trade uncertainties have diminished, though the U.S. economy appears “resilient” to global headwinds. […]