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I am reviewing financial projects from a technology start up. They show the gross profit margin as high as 118%. In some years it is less than 100%. Is the...

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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?

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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...

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The disadvantages seem obvious! but some employers continue to use this system. Why?

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

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D&B reports show relative comparisons to the region and industry of the business but we would like a more general point of reference to use in evaluating potent...

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

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

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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...

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...

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

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...

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

Specifically, what the accounting requirements for research and development (R&D tax credits) for software companies? Are there any reasons not to claim R&D...

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I am evaluating Career Services Management platforms available in US for one of my clients which is a large university. Came across a few, Cynaptx is impressive...

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

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

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...

Thinking through choice of legal entity for a startup.

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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?

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...

We are a small non-profit company that provides health care in the urban core of our city. A much larger non-profit that is also in health care has approach...

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

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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.

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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...

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...

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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.

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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 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...

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

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

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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...

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...

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

A large shareholder would like to meet with management, but we are concerned about the disclosure requirements related to such a meeting.

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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...

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

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I just started a job at a company that loves to use acronyms. I have been here just one day and keep hearing the term "NDA". What does it stand for?

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

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

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Looking for benchmarks on employer vs employee cost of health insurance as we assess our health benefits.

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...

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

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...

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...

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