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Looking to add a junior level accountant to our finance group but don't have any comparable positions currently.

I want to open a sqlite database (filetype is .db) in Microsoft SQL Server Management studio.

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My company recently introduced a long term incentive plan for managers at my level. It just sounds like a deferred bonus program. How are they suppose to wo...

We typically use auto-renewing contracts for a long term supply agreements. However, we are looking at using evergreen contracts for a few contracts. I'd like t...

I'm just wondering... Do you need a degree to work as a SEO specialist?

I am involved in a startup that is discussing whether to form a C Corporation or an LLC. I have some experience with a capitalization table (cap table) but...

We are a small software company that has recently starting getting traction in the enterprise market. Our price point is modest relative to other applications. ...

I'm evaluating the strength of the tenant in a building I want to buy.

Working on justifying some additional resources for the training group.

My boss asked me to come up with an independent estimate of the timeline for a large project that involves several departments and outside contractors.

What can I do to make my shop appeasing to the customers even though I' m selling old stuffs.

The contract is a 3 year contract with 3 one-year automatic renewals - payment for a full year due at the beginning of each year of the contract. The renewal pe...

Our company entered into a forbearance agreement with a lender and I am wondering how this will impact us.

I own a small business with no employees and have been using various contractors for sales and IT work over the last few years.

We are revising our software licenses to be "all-inclusive," meaning there is one price for a term that includes the license, maintenance, and services. Mos...

We are looking at a lot of investment and acquisition opportunities, including a mix of established and new businesses. Many of them have revenue "hockey st...

We want to make our contracts more useful to managers throughout the company. Full text search of contract files does not actually help them get what they n...

Our corporate bylaws include the following: At any time or times that the corporation is subject to Section 2115(b) of the California General Corporation La...

A larger competitor has been in the news because of an FTC investigation into their advertising practices.

Launching a new website and looking at using Google Adsense for advertising. Company is based in Texas.

I need an easy way to use some Windows software in our Linux environment.

I am new to contract management. Most of our contracts have fixed terms. But I've just learned that contract "auto-renewed" without anyone on our team knowing a...

I've always considered LLC's to be for small personal businesses such as software consultancies, design agencies and so on. But there are large companies I'd ha...

We have a few vendors and consultants how are sole proprietors or part of small firms, where one person is critical to the service they provide. In one case the...

We are in the process of improving our procurement department procedures. We want to validate the identity of each company we do business with.

We are opening a facility in California and understand that non-competes are effectively illegal there.

Thinking through choice of legal entity for a startup.

Social media marketing is so new, there are no seasoned professionals. How can I tell if a consultant is any good before hiring him?

As a sizeable health care company, we have lots of contracts. Some are in paper; some are electronic. For compliance and business reasons the organizaion will s...

I am an author who sells small quantities of my books at presentations to groups. Am I responsible for collecting and filing state and local sales taxes at ...

Our IT department is looking at increasing our investments in open source solutions like Linux, because they want more control. We are performance a financi...

We have an internal software development team. They develop new products, but they also maintain existing products. What costs get capitalized? Does all de...

More particularly, when is IFRS used for accounting guidance and when is GAAP used? What are the regulatory implications?

We have traditionally used a direct sales model. But our company is exploring the idea of using distributors or alliance partners to resell our products. Ho...

The founders of a startup business want to discuss the idea in more detail, so they need a business plan. Most business plans are too complex for this early...

What is best application for UI design?

I am part of a start up looking to raise some early money. Most of the investors we talk to want to give us a convertible note. We were expecting to defend ...

These would be afterschool and/or weekend instruction--specifically in speech and debate.

List of recommended books for career development

We are currently using ECWID and are adding a new product to our online store. We are limited as to how we can customize our shipping tables and as a resu...

how can I measure social media effectiveness?

We have contracts with regulated companies (health care). The contracts require us as a vendor to monitor and comply with laws that cover our work with our ...

I work for a small non-profit organization. The husband of one of our board members purchased a domain name for our organization (not at our request). Se...

We provide services to customers using a product sold by a company we are partnering with. We negotiated a contract where we provide those services at a red...

We are a small but growing company. We have not provided any health insurance for our employees, but are now looking at options. There are a host of options...

I want to get IBM C4040-129 certification. Please help where to find reliable resources for studying. Any help appreciated.

With so many lease agreements for different pieces of equipment, it does not make sense to track our "lease agreements," because that is too general. We wou...

We have looked at a variety of contract management software solutions. We are specifically focused on post-execution management of the contracts. So we need...

We have a small consulting business. Our clients pay upfront for our services and we provide those services at the clients request sometimes in the same mon...

We are reviewing a proposal from a vendor to build a web application and they have proposed using a NoSQL database as the backend for our application. I am ...

Clients have been asking about what corporate forms are common. It is more important to assess their tax and financial objectives, but I would be interested...

Working with a new startup management team. We are wondering what is the most common structure for a new entity.

Several influential people in my company keep pushing us to buy other companies. They say that we should look a building solutions internally and partnershi...

Our software development team complains a lot about the requirements we received from product management. In theory we use an agile development methodology but ...

Our company does not have internal IT resources and we are looking to outsource some development work. We want to be sure that the work is completed with common...

We send email messages to our customers regularly and need to determine which messages should get approval from legal before going out.

I recently left my job as a compliance officer at a financial services firm to join a compliance software company as a domain expert. The jump is larger than I ...

The company is based in California and has some remote employees in New York.

Working on an analysis of alternative marketing strategies for attracting customers to a retail website.

I'm having a hard time getting people to "see" themselves as others see them. As an Human Resources generalist, I deal with many leadership, team building, comp...

Non-monetary sales incentives specifically

Working on valuing a business with big variations in working capital during the year, so how do I deal with the possibility that the transaction closes at a tim...

Private company with some new investors looking for concise quarterly snapshot of business health.

We rely on overall customer satisfaction scores to measure customer service performance and are looking for a more detailed set of metrics to help identify impr...

The company is starting a newsletter mailing and I am working on the budget.

Opening a Houston office and getting ready to make some initial hires.

We get I-9, W-2, and W-4 from new employees, but is there something similar we are supposed to be doing at state level?

Considering an across the board 10% price increase and need to assess what impact it will have on volumes.

One of our websites has been running on a server without a SSL certificate, we have installed the SSL certificate and are planning to 301 redirect the http to h...

We are a small software provider and a prospect is asking us to provide a SAS 70 report or equivalent information about our information security.

Trying to determine whether or not our ad designs are more or less effective than similar ads in our industry.

Specifically the trend in board structure of mid-cap private companies where the Sales and Ops Directors are also shareholders?

This is a 9-person group, diverse in gender, age, management level, and company experience. The off-site meeting is primarily for strategic planning.

We are negotiating is a description license to Enterprise software. The agreement includes both of the license and support for the product. The vendor defines s...

Our company is an established printer with a long history. We are quite profitable relative to our peers. It is obvious, however, that the printing industry in ...

I received permission to use a registered trademark with modification to identify my service. Where and how do I need to acknowledge that I have permission fro...

Selling annual software subscriptions. Customer pays full year upfront - subscription revenue recognized ratably over the year. Sales rep gets paid within 30 da...

The business has grown from 3 to 10 employees over the last year and not sure what we are required to do as far as offering health benefits or providing health ...

The company frequently issue press releases related to product announcements, new customers, and events, but we don't have a method to track whether or not pres...

I work for an established software company in operations, which means that I do not have any role in product management or developement. I want to pitch an soft...

My new manager is pushing for Six Sigma practices, so I am trying to understand the real benefits of what sounds like a big implementation effort.

Reviewing the budget for employee incentives and rewards and trying to determine whether or not the spend is justified.

I am tasked with formalizing our strategic planning process and my boss keeps referencing Hoshin Planning.

We sell SaaS software subscriptions to customers across the United States and do not charge sales tax. I recently heard that regulations have changed in New Yor...

Not currently offering any employee retirement plan but looking at options appropriate for a small business with less than 20 employees.

People with the job titles "investment banker" and "business broker" seem to serve the same function. Both help business owners sell their business. Both al...

I am doing a research paper on ExxonMobil and the methods their managers use for product costing. On ExxonMobil's SEC filings, they use Absorption costin...

I have been running a small wholesale distribution business (drop ship) for the last 18 months or so. This is work I've been doing in my spare time on the s...

We are reviewing our strategic plan as an independent business unit in a larger organization. We are debating whether to ask for a substantial increase in our s...

Do companies reflect the market value of their assets on the balance sheet? If not, how are asset values shown on a company's balance sheet determined?

We recently hosted a conference where for our (very) small non-profit organization. Two deaf conference attendees requested ASL interpreters. We had not b...

We have found that messages are being sent from fake addresses using our domain, but are not sure what is happening or how to stop it.

We are developing a list of potential acquisition targets in our industry. We have existing alliance or joint venture agreements with some of these companies. W...

Want to redirect traffic to a rebranded website at a new domain without rewinding SEO progress made on old site.

We are setting up a new start up company. The bylaws cover board of directors votes on corporate questions. Decisions include things like routine operationa...

I am looking into a job opportunity with a software company that describes themselves as a "startup studio". What do they mean?

We are trying to figure out what portion of the capital raise will go to the bankers.

I am a domain expert working on a due diligence team as part of a corporate acquisition. The term "proprietary deal flow" came up and I would like to know what ...