Choosing a Private Practitioner? The Business Office Decides More Than the Exam Room Does
Solo, group, or management-backed: the three shapes private practice comes in now, and how a first visit reveals which one you have walked into.
Twenty Minutes and Six Questions: How to Tell Whether a Preparer Is Right for You
A first meeting with an accountant is a two way interview and most people treat it as an application. Six questions settle it in about twenty minutes.
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Does a Raise Keep Somebody Longer Than a Better Schedule or Better Tools?
Retention money usually gets spent on whichever lever is easiest to pull. The options differ enormously in how long the effect lasts and what it actually costs.
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Most People Settle a Dispute Far Too Late, and the Reason Is Rarely the Money
The offer refused in month two is often better than the outcome reached in month fourteen, once somebody counts what the intervening year actually took out of them.
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Spring Job Gone Wrong? Several of the Useful Remedies Cost Nothing at All
Spring brings the largest volume of home improvement work and the largest volume of arguments about it. Some of the effective routes are free and rarely used.
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Waiting on a Death Certificate? The Six Desks It Crosses, and Which One Moves Fastest
A funeral in the first week runs on other people's signatures. Here is who signs what, in what order, and how electronic filing changed the wait.