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How to Find the Right Accountant for You

Success

Although some of the things you do to keep your business running are interesting, the day-to-day tasks like bookkeeping and business strategy are often not very exciting. Starting your own business can be an exciting adventure full of possibilities. Determine what your business needs.

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6 myth-busting facts about entrepreneurship and poverty

Work Life

Fact 4: Off-the-books businesses have value for society Poor entrepreneurs often start what economists call “informal” businesses – enterprises that aren’t registered with the government and that operate under the radar. These often attract criticism.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

When I read it in 2015, I was working both a full-time government job and launching a side business that would eventually eat up 80 hours of my week. You can’t handle the website, sales and marketing, customer service, bookkeeping and taxes, build partnerships, and grow the business by yourself. Bookkeeping and some accounting.

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does my boss want to have an affair with me, I feel guilty about resigning, and more

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My father depends on her totally to run the office, dispatch employees, and handle all bookkeeping. She’d still need to be paid overtime if she’s in a role that the government categorizes as non-exempt — regardless of whether she’s salaried.). He has an office manager who runs the day to day business.

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my company wants to stop me from discussing my salary with coworkers

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So your coworker can tell you how much she makes, but getting the bookkeeper to tell you how much a coworker is making wouldn’t be protected by the law. * The law doesn’t apply to government employees, agricultural laborers, domestic workers in a home, people employed by a parent or spouse, or independent contractors.

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a volunteer group I founded years ago is devouring my life

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Because my job gives me significant exposure to bookkeeping and accounting, and because I felt I couldn’t leave a giant mess for someone else to clean up, I agreed to develop a new accounting system and use my institutional memory to reconstruct years of old financial records.

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sending a group photo to a grieving coworker, using a portfolio at an interview, and more

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I’m going to bet this is linked to the excessively rigid hiring practices that you often see in government, where they have weird ideas about what constitutes a fair shake. I’ve done everything from academic research for a book she was writing to bookkeeping for her business, marketing, and website management. ” 5.