Most closely held business owners want to know the value of their investments, especially if they are going to sell or gift shares to family members or charities. Valuing a...
Three Approaches to Valuing a Business
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Business Strategies
Monitor Overtime Pay for Your Remote Workers: DOL Guidance
Paying your employees for hours that you know they've worked is straightforward enough. But what if they're doing more work than you think they are — or more than you've asked...
Paying for Group Health Plan Administrative Expenses
Here's a question from an employer about paying the administrative expenses of a group health plan. Q. Due to declining health care spending during the COVID-19 pandemic, we...
Managing Risk for Remote Workforces in a Post-COVID-19 World
Pundits are predicting that even after the COVID-19 pandemic is ultimately brought under control — which might not occur for many more months — work-at-home arrangements...
Valuations in Shareholder Disputes
Shareholder disputes are common occurrences in today's complex business world. These disputes can often be divisive, long-lasting and expensive. They can arise in almost any...
5 Mid-Year Tax Planning Ideas for Small Business Owners
The second half of 2020 has begun. What steps can small business owners take today to lower taxes for the current tax year? Alternatively, would it make more sense...
HIPAA Special Enrollment during the COVID-19 Emergency
Here's a HIPAA-related question from one employer. Q. How long are the extended HIPAA special enrollment periods during the COVID-19 emergency? A. In response to the...
Employees Working at Home? Rethink Your Space Needs
For some employees, working from home is a personally liberating experience that contributes to greater productivity. For others, not so much. By now, if you have had a...
Limit the Impact of E-Mail in Court
You just finished typing a draft of an aggressive e-mail message explaining why you think your company's strategic plan can — and will — destroy the competition. Later, you think...
Consider Another Way to Calculate Overtime Pay
After decades in limbo, regulations that clarify certain overtime pay practices have been released by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The newly finalized rules explain how to...