| Aug 23 | How to Calculate Employee Fringe Benefits Accounting and payroll are complex whether your company has five employees or 500. Sometimes, it’s obvious what counts as taxable compensation, and other times, it’s not. Fringe expenses fall into the latter, more obscure category. |
| Aug 22 | How to Create a Startup Operations Budget Few experiences in life can match starting a business: the passion for your work, late nights, the excitement of seeing your first few sales. While managing finances and budgeting might not top the list for the most exciting aspects of starting a ... |
| Aug 22 | Managing Mileage Logs Using an Excel Template Vehicle costs account for about 14% of total business expenses incurred by small businesses. While the law entitles you to a mileage deduction for business-related vehicle costs, mileage write-offs are among the most audit-prone deductions in a ta... |
| Aug 22 | How to Determine your Employee Meal Allowance According to conservative estimates by Gallup , employee turnover costs companies one-and-a-half to two times an employee’s annual salary. So, anytime your company loses an employee who earns $75,000, it will spend between $112,500 and $150,000 on... |
| Jul 20 | How to Choose the Best Fleet Fuel Card Managing finances for a business fleet can be a tall order: you’re typically tasked with maintaining vehicles, managing drivers, negotiating with suppliers, and overseeing every other facet of your fleet operations to ensure it runs like a well-oi... |
| Jul 14 | 3 Essential Budget Management Skills For Managers Trying to Get Mor... You know how to spend money. But do you know how to get it? Most managers get hung-up just tracking their expenses. You don't spend enough time making a case for more budget. Here are 3 budget management skills that will help you get enough budget... |
| Jul 8 | The Most Important Budget Management Skill Every New Manager Should... How do you ask for budget? It’s not something they teach in school. But it’s the most important part of your job. Even the best managers can’t hit goals if they don’t have enough resources in the first place. Here are some tricks I’ve picked up th... |
| Jul 4 | How to Create an Expense Report in 6 Steps Expense reports are often associated with hunting down missing receipts and hours of mind-numbing data entry. In many organizations, they have become a dreaded but necessary process. |
| Jul 1 | A Complete Guide on Company Car Allowances You may decide to offer an auto allowance benefit if you have employees who need to travel by car for work, such as salespeople who spend a lot of time on the road to see potential clients and regional managers who constantly move between branches. |
| Jul 1 | How to Implement a Company Card Program Sooner or later, a startup reaches a point at which it can no longer rely on employees sharing one corporate card or reimbursing team members for business purchases they’ve made out of pocket. |