Are your employees working too much overtime? Who needs a raise? Are you spending too much money on a department? To get answers to these types of questions, analyze your payroll data. Use payroll analytics to make decisions, avoid overspending on payroll, and verify the accuracy of your payroll.
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Guide for Reporting Workplace Incidents Under OSHA (With Example)
Despite your best efforts, accidents can happen in the workplace. When they do, you must fill out a workplace incident report.
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Payroll Forecasting: Strategies for Predicting Employee Expenses
Payroll is arguably a business’s biggest expense. Between taxes and benefits, an employee costs up to 32% more than their wages. To accurately budget for your payroll-related expenses, try payroll forecasting.
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Strategies for Minimizing Data Entry Errors in Accounting
Mistakes happen all the time—just look at your phone the next time you’re texting someone or putting in your password. Entering numbers in your books is no different. Data entry errors are common, but unchecked mistakes can quickly tank the accuracy of your books.
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How to Calculate a Raise Percentage for Your Employees
Fewer employers plan to give pay raises in 2024 than in 2023, according to SHRM. Even so, 79% of businesses plan to dole out pay raises. To avoid losing your top employees, you might consider offering pay raises. Learn about criteria for raises, when to give salary raises, and how to calculate a raise percentage.
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Understanding Final Paycheck Laws by State (+ Ultimate Chart!)
Did an employee leave your business? It’s time to whip out your employee termination checklist to see what you need to do. And one of the responsibilities on said checklist is giving terminated employees their final paycheck. But, how soon do you need to pay their final paycheck? Cue final paycheck laws by state.
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PTO Payout Laws by State: Is Your Use-it-or-lose-it Policy Breaking the Rules?
Deciding whether you want to provide paid time off (PTO) is something you need to do before you hire an employee. Offering PTO also requires you to craft a PTO policy that explains how your business treats accrued PTO. But, PTO payout laws by state may restrict whether you can establish a use-it-or-lose-it policy. Sure, […]
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What Are the Types of Revenue Small Business Owners Need to Know?
To keep business operations running smoothly, you need incoming money. When you make a sale or earn money from another activity, you need to record it. Learn how to record the types of revenue in different accounts. That way, you can keep your accounting books updated, organized, and legal.
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How to Calculate Payroll Taxes: A Look at Social Security and Medicare Tax Calculations
Having employees is an amazing feeling. But learning the responsibilities of being an employer can be daunting. One responsibility you have once you hire employees is learning how to calculate payroll taxes and withholding taxes from their paychecks. For accurate withholding, learn how to calculate payroll taxes here.
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The Average Cost of Living by State, and Why Ignoring it Could Sink Your Business
You hear about it all the time in the news—Cost of living rising! Maybe you think about it on a daily basis—Do I earn enough to cover my standard of living in my state?
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