by Leif Jensen | Jun 22, 2022 | Rant |
I knew the number was low, but I was surprised that only 15% of discarded textiles was recycled or reused, while the rest is sent to landfills or incinerators. Which always makes taking a high value on donated goods difficult. Shipping overstock overseas I knew...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 21, 2022 | Rant |
With the planned proliferation of electric vehicles coming onto the market by the end of the decade, how are they all going to be charged? Throughout the US we have electric grid reliability issues. Adverse weather conditions in the central U.S. will be 1.7% higher...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 20, 2022 | Rant |
States are introducing bans on ransomware payments by public agencies that get hit by this increasingly common cyberattack. This is an attempt to remove the low hanging fruit, typically municipalities have limited and poor security, which have made them easy targets....
by Leif Jensen | Jun 16, 2022 | Running a Business |
Leadership is complex because it operates on many levels. Articles to this point have focused on Individual Leadership, i.e., the traits and practices of a leader for being effective on a one-to-one basis with others. We only scratched the surface so far, but at least...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 15, 2022 | Rant |
We picked up a new client this year that will not be returning next year, he isn’t even a real client this year. We did not submit his tax returns. This gentleman gave us his documents and we prepared financials for him. He did not like the results, he made money, a...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 14, 2022 | Rant, Running a Business |
This last tax season we picked up a new client that is running an e-commerce business similar to my own. I have to admit that I was jealous. They run theirs better than I do mine. As business has picked up on the CPA side a couple of my side businesses have...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 13, 2022 | Rant |
This last tax season was unusual, but I expect it to be more of the norm moving forward. We had clients who were missing 1099-R’s. They have been coming so regularly that people didn’t know who to call about the missing one. The prior year’s report never has a phone...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 9, 2022 | Running a Business |
Being an effective leader happens by design, no chance. Every action you take as a leader should be purposeful, including the informal daily communications you have with members of your team. In the last three articles, we looked at specific actions for building...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 6, 2022 | Investing |
Cryptocurrencies are seemingly moving more closely with the other financial markets at this point. The correlation between bitcoin and the stock market is hitting multiyear highs. A measure of the correlation between bitcoin and the Nasdaq Composite suggests that the...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 2, 2022 | Running a Business |
By Dr. Ray Benedetto, DM, LFACHE, Colonel, USAF, MSC (Ret), Co-founder of GuideStar, Inc. and Co-author of It’s My Company Too! How Entangled Companies Move Beyond Employee Engagement for Remarkable Results The last two blogposts focused on four actions of an...
