Are you onboarding new hires for success?

Onboarding. The word is reminiscent of the golden days of train travel. But it’s also the current shorthand for new employee orientation. The Society for Human Resource Management defines onboarding as “the process by which new hires get adjusted to the social and...

How to maximize your office space

Running out of space in your office? You may not need to move. Instead, consider ways to maximize the space you have. For help, you can hire a professional office space designer, interact with a computer program or create your own simple hand-drawn floor plan....

Are you wasting your time? Here’s help

Time is a precious and perishable resource. It is, perhaps, the most perishable resource on the planet. Each second that passes is the destruction of an asset – the asset of time. We can’t save it to use later, we can’t recycle it, and we can’t reclaim it once it has...

Collusion: When it’s a team effort to defraud

Collusion – a secret agreement between two or more individuals for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose – is one of the most difficult types of fraud to expose. Auditors routinely excuse themselves from the responsibility of detecting fraud, collusion in particular. It...

Don’t be naive about employee expenses

A yearly audit from your CPA cannot – and should not – be replaced by internal auditing. But during the year, keep a trained eye on your company’s expense accounts. That’s an important step that can avert problems and bring savings to your company. After all, there is...

New managers need grooming to succeed

The job of recruiting new managers does not end with the new hire – or the promotion from within. It begins there. It is now up to you to groom your new manager for success. Grooming managers is a hands-on, proactive process. Kicking back will not get the job done. In...