A quick glance is all you need to check your fuel gauge, speed limit, engine temperature, and RPM when you’re driving down the road. Your car’s dashboard is designed to focus you on what’s important and what you need to know to have a safe trip. Your car’s dashboard items, if they applied to business, would be called key performance indicators or KPIs. Unlike a car’s, the KPIs of your business vary depending on your…
Read MoreIf you have employees, you have the distinct honor once per year of being part of a worker’s compensation audit. You likely receive a form in the mail, an email request, or a phone call that will ask you about your payroll numbers and employees for the prior year. Worker’s compensation is an insurance program that covers employees in the case they get hurt on the job. Each employee receives a classification code that describes…
Read MoreFixed assets are special kind of assets in your business. They include land, buildings, equipment, furniture, and vehicles that your company owns. While we frequently look at expenses to cut costs, fixed asset management is another place we can look to find ways to better utilize our resources and, in some cases, improve our profits. Fixed asset management is a discipline that requires keeping good records of the assets a company owns. In the case…
Read MoreThis was my first DattoCon. For the past 10 years, I have attended Autotask Community Live. This year, due to the merger of Datto and Autotask, the two events were combined into DattoCon. Autotask played a very small part in DattoCon. If you didn’t know Autotask was included before attending, you wouldn’t have known once you got there. This was especially evident by the incredibly small break-out rooms for the PSA track. After the first…
Read MoreSocial security is one of those topics that seems to be minimized by statements like, “You can’t count on it,” and “By the time you reach retirement age, it won’t matter.” Those statements are not only incorrect; they contribute toward a lack of education on what’s possible. Social security is still a large part of how most seniors will be able to fund their final 20 to 30 years of life. The options we take…
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