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Creating a strong survey: Choosing the right questions
When creating a good survey, there are a number of major components that are needed to solicit accurate responses, including the layout, using a physical or digital format, and effective survey questions. Not only are there different types of questions that can be used – multiple choice, ranking or open-ended – but coming up with…
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Determining between manual or automatic data entry
When businesses are transferring their many paper documents to a digital format, there are different ways of processing the data – manually or automatically. Both come with their own advantages and disadvantages, and, for that reason, most businesses use a combination of automatic and manual data entry depending on the type of information that is…
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Benefits of outsourcing to a document scanning service
For many businesses that have high volumes of paper and are looking to go electronic, document scanning services can help digitize paper quickly and efficiently. Scanning business documents often helps customers save money, since spending time or hiring new employees for this process would be more expensive. There are many reasons that businesses choose to outsource their…
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How strong is your document capture service?
For document capture services that handle large numbers of documents, it's easy to get caught up in the daily needs of your business when completing tasks. However, services also need to remember that taking a step back every once in a while and examining how a service is run is vital to a business. Specifically, one…
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Preparing for a document scanning project
For paper-heavy offices interested in becoming a digital office, document scanning services can efficiently scan documents so businesses don’t have to, making the transition quick and easy. But before this happens here are some tips to make the document scanning and storage process even faster. Purge This one seems obvious, but it’s necessary – go…
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Landlords: 1099 or not to 1099?
Now that the deadline for those filing their taxes electronically is approaching – those filling on paper should have already mailed the forms in by now – employees may be sitting down to complete the dreaded files. But for freelancers and contractors, as well as those that employ them, this is often a bit more complicated.…
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On tax forms, here’s what’s most important
For those filing their tax forms electronically – the deadline for paper has officially passed – mistakes and miscalculations can cause penalties and missed deductions, as well as an audit that may only find more issues with tax forms. While it’s important to check everything when filling out tax forms, there are some areas that require…
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Worried about an audit? Make sure all income is included
In the past few years, the IRS has been cracking down especially on tax mistakes for a number of reasons. After the financial recession, many businesses chose to hire freelancers and contractors to avoid paying full-time benefits, causing an increase in the number of 1099 forms sent out, and since many families were struggling with…
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How to correct a 1099 mistake
Now that tax season is well underway, 1099 and W-2 recipients will be receiving the appropriate tax forms, since most were required to be post-marked by January 31. However, as with any situation, there are always potential mistakes when it comes to these forms, and two tax experts explain how to correct a 1099 form.…