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Willfullness

In the past I have had to fire clients for “willfulness”.  That is paying other creditors with available funds and not making the timely payroll taxes which is an example of what the IRS terms as willfulness. There is no defense against willfulness. Not paying payroll...

Ransomware Statistics

There were over 7,600 ransomware attacks reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) between 2005 and March 2016.  The cost of these attacks exceeded $1.6 million. However the Kasperski Lab believes that the reported ransomware is much smaller than the...

Business Cards

I was at a networking meeting and collected a batch of business cards. When we went to add them to the newsletter list, we found numerous misspellings of e-mail addresses (2 out of 16) and at least one business card with no name or contact information on them.  Just...

Planning ahead

With all of the recent hurricanes, some companies have been better positioned to make money and take market share from others by planning ahead. It seems that having fully functioning facilities when everyone else is closed can really boost the bottom line. Who would...

The Financial Regulators

All of the good news coming for the large companies has the financial regulators scrutinizing how public firms are reporting their earnings. All companies publically traded must use generally accepted accounting principles for their financial reports.  But under...

Commercials with stories

There is a new trend in commercials that has caught my wife’s attention. These commercials tell quick stories with the product being nearly invisible. But the quality of the story is enough to keep her attention and stop to watch them. This is a unique idea, and will...

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