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Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement

Duct Tape Marketing

16:22]What guidelines do you have concerning labor and productivity costs? [17:55] One is you should have an outside, I mean, obviously there are a lot of people that hire CPA, but they really just say, here's my stuff for the taxes in a lot of cases. 19:55] Where can individuals connect with you to explore more about your work?

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. Richard: I went to school for accounting and followed a path after graduation that those of us in that major typically follow: I started working for a CPA firm in Miami. 74 on Inc.

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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

That’s when, Stephens’ mentor and CPA introduced her to the concept of a captive. In 2015 Proje Inc. If a business owner is faced with an issue like a natural disaster, employee injury or even a lawsuit, they’ll have to cover the costs themselves out of pocket. Increasing health care costs. Do a Cost-Benefit Analysis.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

Even if your company is large enough to justify it, with health insurance costs today exceeding profits for many companies, it’s rare that the CEO and CFO of a Fortune 500 company don’t spend many hours managing their health benefits program,” notes Lindquist. Losing group health insurance clients due to cost or participation requirements?

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

Those of you that have had the opportunity to go to college, I am quite sure that you probably know someone who is a CPA and someone who is a lawyer and you want to add those two people to this kitchen cabinet as well because you need professional advice. Now what are your basic startup costs? Sabrina: Great, thank you so much.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

Magda, the new business owner, knows this deli office park business, so she knows more or less to educated guess what it’s going to cost her for each cup of coffee, for each lunch. In the business offering, features and benefits, launches, versions, sourcing, cost, in admin and finance, are we raising money? Are we recruiting?

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