An Accountemps survey has found that employers are increasingly receptive to remote work arrangements such as telecommuting and employees working from satellite offices. One third of chief financial officers surveyed said such arrangement have increased at their companies over the last three years while only 5 percent reported a decrease. The survey is based on telephone interviews with 1,400 CFOs in the United States. Read more...

Having completed five mergers while the managing partner of my firm, I learned many lessons along the way and have some of the scars to prove it. There is no question that I was smarter on number five than on the first one. Regardless of whether you are the buyer or the seller, here are few tips that will help you find and seal the right deal. Read more...

"If you give it away they won't value it." Really? Isn't that what we've always heard? This admonition gets applied in many areas of our personal and professional life and in some cases it is the truth. However, when it comes to professional relationships, I would like to offer up an alternative admonition, "Focus on the relationship and the fees will follow." Read more...

The choices in payroll used to be very simple. There were companies that wanted to calculate payroll and take the duties off their clients' hands. And then there were those organizations that sold software to their customers so that the latter could perform processing themselves. But increasingly, vendors providing payroll services offer a spectrum that range between doing it yourself and handing off all the tasks to another company.

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