May 11, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

Home sweet home! It may have just gotten a little sweeter for employees, thanks to a new proposed rule out of IRS.
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Tags: IRS rule, Local Lodging Expenses, Publication 15, Safe harbor qualifications, T&E
May 4, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

From Direct Deposit to your 401(k) to cafeteria plans, there are tons of Finance programs that depend on employee participation to be successful. Some new research on employee attitudes toward money just may be your ticket to getting more of it across the board.
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Tags: AICPA, Basic living expenses, Direct deposit, Employee intel
April 27, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

You’d think the $3,200 employees of the GSA spent on a mind reader could have told them this business trip wasn’t a good idea!
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Tags: Contracting policies, GSA, T&E bill, T&E Scandal, Unallowable expenses
April 20, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

It’s Administrative Professionals Week! What better time to take a tip from these masters of organization?
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Tags: Administrative Professionals Week, Cross-index, Documents, Filing, Questions
April 13, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

So Rick Santorum bowed out of the race for the presidency last week. Do you know which of your staffers were disappointed and which were elated?
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Tags: CareerBuilder, Politics, Presidential, Rick Santorum, Taboo topic
April 6, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

In grade school you may have been told “never mind what your neighbor is doing,” but smart finance pros know that keeping an eye on what their peers are doing is smart business.
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Tags: Benchmarking the Finance Function 2012, Finance benchmarks, Finance staffing, Robert Half International, Smart business
March 30, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

Only check messages twice a day; get off as many mailing lists as possible. Valid tips for email management, but — yawn – you’ve heard them all before. You probably haven’t heard these.
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Tags: Auto reply, Email tricks, Frequently emailed people, P.O. box, Shortcut
March 23, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

So it may not be the best tool … but it’s probably the one you and your finance staffers lean most heavily on.
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Tags: downtime, Entire row, Excel, Trick, Value of cells
March 15, 2012 by Jared Bilski

Here’s some very expensive proof that “soft” issues like employee morale can have a very hard impact on your company’s bottom line.
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Tags: Disgruntled employee, Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, Muppetgate, New York Times
March 9, 2012 by Jennifer Azara

Finance deals in numbers all day. But how often are you generating numbers to find out how efficient your finance team is?
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Tags: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Finance, metrics, Payroll