Employee New Hire Information & Checklist

Employee New Hire Information & Checklist

Business Productivity Tips & Training
An employee new hire information and checklist will help you to gather all the information your need about an employee once you have made a hiring decision. Congratulations, you've decided to hire your first employee or perhaps your business is growing and you are hiring additional employees. In either case, there is so much more to hiring an employee than putting an ad in the newspaper and arranging for interviews - even though these are both very important. Once you have gone through the interview process with everyone who has applied and you make a hiring decision; you find yourself with a lot of additional information that you need to have keep on file about the employee that you just hired. All of a sudden you are subject to Federal…
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eBook: Payroll Mistakes. It’s Not As Easy as 1-2-3!

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  Payroll is an essential part of your business – not just a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly annoyance. Payroll is the primary way that employees are rewarded for good job performance and retained. If you are issuing late or incorrect paychecks, it can lead to dissatisfied, unmotivated workers – or worse. It’s hard to keep good employees when a company gets the paychecks wrong. The relationship between employees and employers is highly regulated by the government and many of these regulations involve payroll. There are literally hundreds of things that you have to know, as well as, hundreds of mistakes that you can make. As a result, the process is much more complicated than anyone who has never done it can possibly know. The consequences of some mistakes can be…
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VIDEO: Worker’s Comp & Payroll Tax Strategies for Public Works Contractors

VIDEO: Worker’s Comp & Payroll Tax Strategies for Public Works Contractors

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  Worker's Comp and payroll taxes take a huge bite out of a contractors profit when working on Public Works construction projects - especially if the contractor is paying the full fringe benefit rate of the prevailing wage to the employee in cash and not to the Union Hall or into bona-fide plans.  Contractors in California will soon be faced with yet another increase in Worker's Compensation premiums. [caption id="attachment_112" align="alignright" width="164" caption="Money doesn't grow on trees!"][/caption] Public Works Construction and Prevailing Wage projects require advanced financial planning methods and tools along with an understanding of the ever-changing compliance requirements -- so that you can reduce your overhead and get paid on time. Join Tim Blackwell of InsuranceDude.com, Steve Kuzmack of Fringe Benefit Experts, Bruce McFarland of L & R…
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ARTICLE:  What to Look for in a Construction CPA

ARTICLE: What to Look for in a Construction CPA

Business Productivity Tips & Training
  Hiring a CPA or tax accountant for you construction business is as critical as hiring a supervisor on the job site.  Not all CPA's or tax preparers understand construction and when they don't your books could be in as much of a mess as your job site would be if you hired a supervisor with no experience! In that perfect world, your company wouldn’t need a CPA.  We would all just pack up our adding machines, green eyeshades, and armbands and move on to other professions. But, that isn’t going to happen, is it? In fact, the regulatory environment is headed in the other direction.  States are looking for revenue, there are three or four new federal tax acts each year, and GAAP is going global.  These current and…
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VIDEO: Batch Timesheet Entry in QuickBooks 2012

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  Need a productivity boost?  Try the Batch Timesheet Entry feature in QuickBooks 2012 to enter hours for multiple employees (or Vendors) at the same time. Entering employee time in the Weekly Timesheet in QuickBooks is a painstakingly slow process, especially if you have a lot of employees - QuickBooks 2012 solves "some" of that with the new Batch Timesheet Entry feature, but it's still not perfect or very flexible. Entering timesheets for multiple employees or vendors all at the same time will be a huge productivity booster for some companies - but only in very specific situations. All employees {or Vendors} must: Work on the same Job Be costed to the same Service Item Be paid under the same Payroll Item Work the same hours each day These requirements…
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eBook: Hiring a Bookkeeper for your construction biz-Test their skills

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Hiring a bookkeeper for your construction business is a big step - make sure that you are hiring the right person by testing their skills with our Construction Bookkeeper Test. As a busy owner of a construction company, your time is best spent in the field and staying on top of what's going on with your various projects rather than spending hours in the office performing bookkeeping tasks. There comes a time when it just makes sense to hire a bookkeeper to handle the day-to-day data entry tasks, but you also need to make sure that they are familiar with QuickBooks® and the construction industry and the only way to do this is by testing their skills.  Hiring some one who seems to have a strong bookkeeping background from their…
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VIDEO:  QuickBooks Setting up/Creating a Scheduled Payroll Liability

VIDEO: QuickBooks Setting up/Creating a Scheduled Payroll Liability

QuickBooks Training
Setting up/Creating a scheduled Payroll Liability will help you keep track of when your payroll liabilities are due to be paid. However, it is often the step that we skip. Payroll taxes, child support deductions, union dues deductions, health insurance - both employee deductions and company contributions are just a few of the items that are run through the QuickBooks payroll feature.  The money for these items must be sent to a 3rd party on behalf of the company or the employee and they all have a different date that they must be paid by. The QuickBooks Payroll Center provides you with a "Pay Scheduled Liabilities" section to help you keep track of these important due date - but what if it's not showing anything there?  It could be that…
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