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		<title>Quick Storage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was telling a business friend about my love affair with Smart Vault.  Smart Vault is an online data storage provider with a very slick interface to Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners.  I love both companies.  The Fujitsu scanners scan both sides of a piece of paper at once and come in a variety of prices [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=99&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no absolute statements that can be made about sales tax&#8211;well, except that it is a tax collected on the sale of something. Because it is a state and local tax, the differences in law are endless. If you are doing business in a state without sales tax, congratulations! Programming your sales system is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=97&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dress for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[build out]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My personal opinion is that brand new retail businesses, and restaurants in particular, often obsessively overdo the initial concept build out.  A great deal of time, energy, and money is spent coming up with the ideal design and décor, equipment configuration, and workflow.   Detailed budgets are written and then broken as new ideas and construction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=93&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gap Accounting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Statements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accruals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adjusting journal entries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you know that you have expenses that are not on the books yet?  It is time to produce financials (end of month, end of period, end of quarter, end of year) and yet there are some costs missing.  How do you fill in the gap? It could be that a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=91&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Can&#8217;t Believe it!  Charlie Was Our BEST Employee.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Controls]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Staffing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[background checks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embezzlement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee dishonesty insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you shaken your head after reading a news article about embezzlement, sure that it would not happen at your business?  You would know if $100,000 disappeared from your bank account.  You have good people working for you and you trust them.  It would never happen to you.  Right?   Actually that attitude [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=86&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Hide the Good Stuff</title>
		<link>http://accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/dont-hide-the-good-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[leases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prepaid Expenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital leases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital files]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lease deposit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operating leases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate leases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many businesses, you probably lease space or equipment.    Are you in the habit of filing lease documents in a permanent file and sharing them with your bookkeeper/accountant?   These documents are part of &#8220;the good stuff&#8221; that you need to keep permanently.  There are so many different ways that leases impact your general ledger that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=83&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well-Scrubbed Payables</title>
		<link>http://accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/well-scrubbed-payables/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Payables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staffing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounts Payable]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How “clean” are your payables?  Do you constantly have to straighten out what you owe each vendor?  Are you paying regularly and still getting calls from vendors about skipped invoices or even overpayments?   If this is happening frequently, you and your accounting staff need to sit down and come up with better procedures.  If it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=81&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Happening Behind the Curtain?</title>
		<link>http://accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/what-is-happening-behind-the-curtain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NCCI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers comp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This isn’t really an accounting issue, but often the bookkeeper/accountant ends up filing out the insurance applications and claims.  Monitoring claims correctly can save you money.  We all know that insurance companies are basically betting against the possibility of our businesses having losses, but the rest is much like that curtain and the big voice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=78&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Bill, Twice the Fun</title>
		<link>http://accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/one-bill-twice-the-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you sit down with my friend Lori, your insurance broker, and get a great bid on your insurance renewal.  You increase coverage for the new catering kitchen expansion, add coverage for the three new delivery vans, and are delighted to find out that your efforts at safety have paid off and your workers’ comp [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=76&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Are a User, You Need to Pay</title>
		<link>http://accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/if-you-are-a-user-you-need-to-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Ormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inventory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fixed assets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online purchases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever looked at your sales tax form or gone on the state tax website and noticed that the term is “Sales and Use Tax” rather than just “Sales Tax?”  I’ll bet you have wondered (but only briefly, I’m sure) what sort of archaic tax that “Use” refers to.   You may be more familiar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=accountsandaccountability.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25143960&amp;post=73&amp;subd=accountsandaccountability&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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