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The protection is real, considerably narrower than most owners assume, and easier to lose than anybody expects. The rest of the decision is bookkeeping and habits.
Holiday coverage takes an hour to arrange and is remembered for a year. Staff read the schedule as a statement about how the place is actually run.
A probationary period nobody manages is just three months of hoping. It is meant to be a structure with dates attached, and it runs in both directions.
Continue reading Ninety Days With Dates on It: How a Probation Period Is Actually Meant to Run
Forty applications and nobody hireable means the advertisement did its job badly. The purpose of the writing is to help the wrong people decide against you.
Continue reading A Job Posting That Filters Honestly Will Bring Fewer Applicants and Better Ones
The month closed with more revenue than costs and the checking account still went down. Both facts are usually true at once, and the reason is almost never an error.
Continue reading Profitable on Paper and Empty in the Bank? The Questions a Bookkeeper Opens With
An invoice mailed in early October can sit until Thanksgiving without anybody deciding it should. The sequence that gets it paid is mostly settled before the job starts.
Continue reading The Quarter Everyone Manages Cash: Why Invoices Slip in Fall and What Recovers Them