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 How to Increase Accountabilty in Your Firm

January 2, 2014 

How to Increase Accountabilty in Your Firm

From top to bottom, firms continually struggle with accountability. Partners face challenges holding one another accountable. With junior staff, managers too often focus on the wrong things: Whether an employee put in enough hours or whether an employee checked Facebook during business hours, for instance.

Jim Boomer

 St. Louis Accounting Firms to Merge, Will Become Largest Local Firm in Metro

January 2, 2014 

St. Louis Accounting Firms to Merge, Will Become Largest Local Firm in Metro

Two St. Louis accounting firms, Scheffel & Company, PC and J.W. Boyle & Co., LTD, have announced that they will finalize a merger of the two practices effective January 1, 2014. The new firm will be named Scheffel Boyle. Both firms have a long established metro St. Louis presence and serve specialized practice areas.

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January 1, 2014 

Making Workflow Management Easier for Small Firms

Improving workflow by streamlining engagements and following best practices is a continuing effort for successful accounting firms, but implementing workflow management solutions has often been a challenge for smaller firms. This is because they often lack the internal resources and staff to perform and manage the implementation process.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 N.J. Minimum Wage Increases by $1.00

January 1, 2014 

N.J. Minimum Wage Increases by $1.00

Effective January 1, 2014, New Jersey's minimum wage will rise by $1 to $8.25 an hour, boosting the paychecks of more than 250,000 New Jerseyans and bumping up costs for businesses with low-wage workers.

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January 1, 2014 

How to Run Small Business Payroll in 5 Minutes

Intuit Payroll review with Kristen from GoodOnYa Deli on how Intuit Full Service Payroll helps her run payroll in five minutes. "If I could describe Intuit Payroll in one word, it would be easy." Learn more at http://payroll.intuit.com/

 San Jose Minimum Wage Rises to $10.15 Per Hour

January 1, 2014 

San Jose Minimum Wage Rises to $10.15 Per Hour

Even as California and the rest of the nation move toward raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour, San Jose's lowest-paid workers are about to get even bigger paychecks and should continue to earn more than their peers for years to come.

 Long-Term Unemployment Benefits End

January 1, 2014 

Long-Term Unemployment Benefits End

All extended federal benefits ended last week because the budget deal reached by U.S. Senate and House negotiators didn't include extension of the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. The added benefits were authorized in 2008 and extended 11 times as the recession and its effects dragged on.