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Rossel | December 11, 2013

Year-end Business Financial Planning

Just because the year is almost over does not mean that you should sit back and watch all the results of your efforts during the year come flowing in. Things will not fall into place all by themselves. Running a business involves keeping an eye on all aspects of your operations no matter what time of the year it is. Lest you be mistaken in thinking that the year end is time to wind down, it’s actually one of the busiest times of the year when it comes to our business financial planning.

It might be wise for you to start advancing your
payments now so you can enjoy savings on
your year-end business financial planning.

Whether or not you meet all the goals you set out for your business at the start of the year, you have to sit down and start pushing your year-end figures. It’s too late to reforecast your production or sales goals. It’s not too late, however, to look for ways to improve your bottomline and to minimize your tax accountability. If you don’t have a financial expert on-board, it’s time for you to hire a good accountant and financial analyst to help you close your year’s books and project your next year’s cash flow.

The most urgent concern now should be your year-end taxes for both your business and personal returns. You have to be responsible enough to pay your taxes, but you don’t have to pay more than you actually have to. There are legal ways of reducing the amount of taxes that you pay so that you can put more of your money into your business. Some of the things you should consider in your year-end business financial planning include:

Capital Expenditures – you can draw money from your books for capital expenditures like equipment purchase and software upgrades. You can continue to amortize such an expense in the coming year. In the meantime, you prevent the money from being eroded by taxes by pulling the expense forward when you purchase the equipment and software that you need before the end of the year.

Employee Benefits and Bonuses – giving money away to your employees will considerably bring down your taxes since you can log it as expense. Also in the same category are health and life insurance contributions, giving meal and transportation subsidies, moving expense benefits, and employee loans. These can all go down as fringe benefits on your W-2s and will thus not be computed as part of your taxable income.

Advance Payments – looking at your payables once the New Year rolls in should give you a chance to get a little more money out of your taxable income. You’re going to pay for them anyway, it might be wise for you to start advancing your payments now so you can enjoy savings on your year-end business financial planning.

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Rossel | December 11, 2013

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Connect with Employers and Clients Through Online Resume

Building a resume is one of the most essential tasks any professional needs to do. In order to be marketable, every professional needs to craft a finely written and structured resume that tells a future employer basic and unique information about the professional. This is often a hard balance to strike; on the one hand, one needs to put down general information on a resume like education, but on the other hand, the resume must leap out and grab the attention of the human resources worker. That is where the work of resume website companies come into play.

When applying to jobs or networking themselves,
a professional can always link to their online
resume for potential employers or clients.

Online Resume Companies
Companies like Resume.com are hosting websites where professionals can create and post their resumes online. In addition, users at most of these websites can search for job opportunities through online job postings. Although users can build their own resumes on these websites, professionals can create or upload their resumes so employers can search and review the resume. These websites allow all resumes to be viewable and printable on any device an employer might have. This helps a professional network their resume to thousands of potential employers or clients.

The Building Process
Professionals can post their existing resume onto a profile they set-up with the website or the professional can create the resume from scratch on several templates the resume websites provide. In addition, professionals can always edit and re-arrange their resume as they see fit. When applying to jobs or networking themselves, a professional can always link to their online resume for potential employers or clients.

Job Postings and Searches
Employers can also use these resume websites to post job listings across several economic sectors. Companies can create a profile where they can post jobs and what the ideal candidate they are looking for. This helps target the job to appropriate website users who may have the keywords or attributes listed, such as education or professional experience. Companies can always edit their job postings to refine who they are looking for. Website users can search for jobs available in their geographic area or within their industry, such as finance.

Why These Websites Are For All Professionals
One does not need to be looking for a job in order to have an online resume. These websites build upon the social media market by allowing professionals to network themselves within an interactive online environment. Even seasoned and highly skilled professionals with current occupations can have a website profile to network. One example is CEO David Kiger resume. David Kiger of Worldwide Express has several online profiles with different resume-based websites. One most of these websites, there is information concerning Kiger’s professional title and relevant social media links. These websites will usually have a summary section where the person’s professional history is laid out with details of what a person like Kiger has done at all of his jobs. An objectives section would detail what Kiger wants for himself professionally, which can be summarized by the goals he has for Worldwide Express. The website would then include small sections devoted to other attributes of the person’s life, such as their education, work history, professional skills, and their hobbies and interests. Although one might wonder why a person like David Kiger would want to have a resume-based website profile, it shows that these websites have become a premier social networking website for all professionals. Seeing how the top experts and business leaders organize their profiles on these websites can be helpful for new users who want to create a finely crafted resume. It is also a good way to see and connect with some of the top business leaders in the country.

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Rossel | December 5, 2013

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The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility

The season of giving is here and everyone is busy shopping for gifts. Even businesses are most likely in the middle of preparing their corporate gift lists for their valued clients, business associates, partners, and employees. Giving, however, does not have to be limited to a particular season. It can be done the whole year round. Businesses have to recognize the value of corporate social responsibility as a way of giving back to the community where they operate. Companies and businesses today are actually expected to be more conscious of the way that their operations impact the people around them and their environment.

Businesses have to recognize the value of
corporate social responsibility as a way of giving
back to the community where they operate.

Customers today are more drawn to companies and businesses that are associated with particular causes. Brands that support non-profit organizations and charities often make it to the top of the list when it comes to the customer’s purchase decision. There are surveys that show that consumers are willing to pay more and exert more effort to purchase products or avail of services from companies with a strong corporate social responsibility program. They feel better when they know that their money is actually being used for something more significant and meaningful than simply boosting the company’s revenues.

Internally, having a corporate social responsibility program also has benefits in the way the employees regard their employer. Socially responsible companies and businesses are more likely to keep their employees for a longer time. The good deeds of the companies also cascade to their employees, boosting employee morale and making the employees proud of the companies they work for.

The size of the company does not matter at all when it comes to being socially responsible. Even smaller companies can choose to support causes or charities. They can even set up their own foundation that will take care of looking for funding sources or organizing fund raising activities for the company’s beneficiaries. Allocating a portion of revenues for purchases of specific items for the charities is one idea that you can consider. Donating goods and services to your chosen charities is also a common way of showing corporate social responsibility. Keep in mind, however, that being socially responsible should be a sincere act of giving back rather than merely a pretentious act meant only to build a reputation. Having a good image as a corporate citizen is achieved with genuine expression of social responsibility.

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