3 Areas of Fraud-Proofing to Focus on For Construction
As the economy continues to challenge everyone, the motivation for some employees to steal isn’t hard to understand. Although the term “fraud-proof” may be a bit hyperbolic, it doesn’t hurt to shoot for the stars when trying to safeguard your revenue and assets. One way to divide and potentially conquer fraudsters is to focus on [...]
10 Tips For Keeping Volunteers
It’s easy to take your volunteers for granted — until they quit. Now, more than ever, short-staffed nonprofits rely on volunteer labor to pick up the slack. To help ensure you’re doing everything you can to engage and retain unpaid workers for the long term, consider the following 10 tips: 1. Build a program. [...]
How Secure is Your Password?
Everyone knows it's bad to use the same password for different sites. But we do it anyway because remembering different passwords is annoying. Remembering different, difficult passwords is even more bothersome! Generally, we choose a readable word as a base for the password. Then, when pressed to, we add a numeral or symbol to make [...]
What You Should Know About Social Security
About 150 million people contribute and 55 million collect Average monthly benefit: retired worker = $1,200; retired couple = $1,900 Social Security benefits are calculated using the highest 35 years of earnings 62 is the earliest you can receive benefits–most people start at 62 and 95% start by 66 Every month you delay after full [...]
Avoiding a Tax Audit
Even though the Internal Revenue Service likes to present a “kinder, friendlier” image to the public, you better believe that they are not slacking off in the collection of taxes. After all, their job is to raise money for the federal government. IRS staff has actually decreased, but more sophisticated computer programs cross check items [...]
