With a persistent new strain of flu affecting workers nationwide, employers may need to be more assertive to help keep the workplace healthy at the height of flu season, according to CCH, a leading provider of human resources and employment law information and services and a part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.Based on a CCH Survey, about half of employers (54 percent) send workers back home if they show up for work sick.

By Lynn Sheehan Building online communities for stakeholders including employees, staff, customers, and partners to increase communication, collaboration, and learning is a crucial strategic program to attract and retain the next generation of employees. Generally, it takes a catalyst to push stakeholders to interact online—especially the over-30 crowd.

A lot of rules have been added since the Venetian monk Luca Pacioli published the first accounting textbook in 1494, introducing double-entry bookkeeping. Unfortunately, one could also make the argument that it was the last revolutionary idea to come from the accounting profession. The balance sheet dates from 1868; the income statement from before World War II. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) fits an industrial enterprise, not an intellectual one. Currently, GAAP measures the cost of everything, and knows the value of nothing.

Can you name the top two key factors to an accounting firm's success? If you said Employee Satisfaction and Client Satisfaction, then you are exactly right.

Brains trump brawn. According to The New York Times, Merv Griffin has made "close to $70 million to $80 million" in royalties from the "Jeopardy!" theme song, which he wrote in less than a minute. One of Japan's largest export industries, reaching an astounding $80 billion in 2004, is animation. Not even two years old, with no profits, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion. Disney's Snow White video release generated $800 million in revenue, $500 million to the bottom line, from a movie made in the 1930s.

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Online press releases offer the ability to speak directly to a large audience that includes your best prospects and the media. The days of solely reaching the media alone via press release are over - press releases now have an extensive reach worldwide. Our featured guest in this episode of Small Business Trends Radio is Joe Beaulaurier, Interactive Marketing Manager, PRWeb. Joe discusses the benefits of using press releases to reach your best prospects. For instance, did you know that:Bloggers are - the new media.

It is a classic debate in CPA firms. Are events worth it? Are they an investment or just an expense? Consider the debate settled: They are an investment and they work as a business development and retention tool. Accept it. Now that you've accepted that events work, truly embrace the idea and approach creating an event strategically and purposefully to serve your firm's business development needs. First, set goals for your event.

Reduce labor. Reduce time. Reduce costs.Time vs. MoneyAs with most business decisions, there are often two prominent variables in wage reporting: time and money.There are many software programs that will help you increase efficiency and decrease time this tax season, but what are the tradeoffs? Is it worth a few extra dollars to keep your sanity intact? With the hectic pace of business today, can you afford not to reduce the time you spend on tedious tasks? These are good questions that deserve some attention.