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Are the expenses paid with company's credit card taxable compensation if documented later than 60 days?
The company has a credit card policy which is not enforced. Actually it does not mention who has to enforce it. Constantly, the employees submit their expense reports and receipts later than 60-90 days after amounts paid with credit cards. Sometimes, they use the cards for personal, but they pay ba…
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Can anyone tell me about Microsoft Dynamics AX?
I want to implement an Order Management system. We are primarily an engineering, creative, ID/PD company that manufactures overseas by outsourcing. We do not manufacturer. Many of our products are off the shelf or semi custom. Most of the things we do is procurement of finished goods in the US of g…
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Does anyone know of an Excel model that computes the fair value of a preferred stock ratchet provision?
ASC 815 40 (aka EITF 07-05) requires that the anti-dilution provision for down round price ratchets be fair valued and recorded as a derivative liability. Is anyone aware of an Excel model or "add in" that can perform the necessary computations?
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Sample Business Plan for Equipment Financing/Leasing field office Southwest market
Does anyone have a sample business/marketing plan to share that would be applicable for a Sales Manager for an Equipment Financing/:Leasing small company that has CA HQ and this Sales manager is tasked with getting Southwest field office up and running from one person to four person team. Thanks…
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Chart of Account for nightclub, dinner and bar - and software recomendation
I'm working with a couple that just bought a club. They have no financial acumen, and I'm not an accountant .. but have enough knowledge to get them going. Anything they use will be better than what they think they can do. Coming from an analysis background I could get into great detail. But I'm lo…
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Has any one compared Concur, Expensify and Nexonia?
We are a small IT company ($20M revenue). Looking for a Travel and Expense management software. Unable to project or control Sales team's spending across the globe.
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Boutique Investment Bank in Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area)
I'm used to working with the bulge-bracket banks, so I'm not as familiar with the small, specialty firms. I'm consulting some high tech start ups and one of them would like to retain a boutique bank to help market/manage an asset sale. This involves Silicon IP, so firms that have connections with t…
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What kind of thresholds are you folks using for CapEx, Prepaids, PO's?
Hi folks, Just curious what kind of thresholds your companies use - to decide whether to capitalize an asset or not - record a prepaid expense - force a PO to be created vs charged on a card or submitted as a T&E expense Trying to standardize how we treat these items here. I know every industry…
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Practical Advice for an Initial External Audit
The Board of Directors at my company has requested a comprehensive external audit of our company. Does anyone have any tips for preparation? Any free resources you can share for common audit findings? As background, we are a technology company and our revenues are approaching $10 MM.
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What happens to an employee's stock options when he converts to consultant status ?
An employee has ISO options that are partially vested. The employee voluntarily terminated regular employment but decided to stay on as an "on-call" consultant. The employee prefers stock compensation vs. cash compensation. Can he keep his ISO options and extend the vesting until the consulting …
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What is the most time draining activity that you do that prevents you focusing on high value output?
In preparation for a webinar on Finance Productivity Hacks, I’m doing research on some of the low value add activities that are draining our precious time as Finance professionals. We hear the expression: “doing more with less”, but it isn’t always that easy – what are some of the activities that y…
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Classification of Recruiting Expenses
We are hiring about 50 + across the country and are flying in candidates to our Boston HQ. The cost is starting to be material. I go back and forth with putting all of the expense to to G&A or allocating it to the actual department related to the candidate. I was wondering what others are doing…
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Why does your company use sales quota's, are they effective or do they just cause more strife with the sales team?
We are considering implementing a sales quota system. I'm concerned as I've heard many negative comments regarding quota systems; the targets are unrealistic, people just "game" the system, we lost to many well trained sales reps because of the quota system, it's a paper chase. I don't need to impl…
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Looking for an adviser to help raise capital
We are a SaaS Security company and want to raise equity to further fuel our growth. Any recommendations for boutique capital advisers with connections to private equity companies?
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First time for me, need advice on whats fair for a return investment of investor?
Ok so I'm in the restaurant industry and ready to pursue my dreams on owning my own establishment. I have looked into leasing which would cost roughly 7k per month which is 6% of my projected sales which is fine. However, I really don't want lease and have found a location for 150k that would need …
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What are the phrases you are most tired of hearing at work?
I am just tired of hearing a few "catch phrases" and about a few topics at work and I wanted to see if others were having the same experience and/or had other phrases that "get on their nerves" they would like to share. A few that are getting like nails on a chalkboard for me are: "customer centric…
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Credit Card Receipts
I am looking for suggestions on how others handle a situation where an employee has charged something to their corporate card but does not have a receipt (it was lost, not obtained, etc.). My recruiters all have corporate cards with small limits so they can take prospects to lunch or coffee but do …
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May you have consultant managing full time employees
We are a small start up and want to hire a consultant to manage a team of full time employees.
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How To Get A Meeting With Potential Investors
"How do you go about to get a meeting with an Angel or VC?" This question was asked at a recent webinar, now available on-demand: "Creating a Winning Pitch for Venture Capital Investors" Please add your thoughts about it below. Thanks!
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