Effective filing systems for the office make your business run more functionally. You can find papers easier and save time looking for them. To keep effective filing systems in your office, try these tasks and share them with everyone in your office to keep the system going consistently. Steps to make a filing system more functional Determine how you want to retrieve the files. Do you want the files to be sorted by event, topic, or speaking engagement? Label each hanging and manila folders. … [Read more...] about 6 Tips for Keeping Effective Filing Systems in the Office
Small Business Paper Management Tips Archive Page
Welcome to our Small Business Paper Management Tips Archive Page to help you and your business streamline processes. Read the archive posts for tips to use in your business.
8 Important Documents Every Small Business Owner Needs to Find Easily
Let me ask you this question, do you know where all your important documents are? If you don't, check out the important personal documents post I wrote on Sabrina's Organizing. These relevant documents should be placed in a fireproof safe place. Remember, that you have valuable records for your small business as well. These documents must also have a place in your safe. Here is a list of 8 important documents every small business owner needs to find easily: All payroll related documents … [Read more...] about 8 Important Documents Every Small Business Owner Needs to Find Easily
How To Organize Employee Records in Your Small Business
How do you keep your employee's paperwork? Do you have one folder for each employee? Or, are they all in one folder? Do you know where all your employee paperwork is? Do you have subcontractors? Where are all the sensitive W-9 and W-2 paperwork? Are they in a secure place? Every small business needs to keep employee records. I have found that several small businesses do not know where all their paperwork is. And, if this information falls into the wrong hands, you could be creating undue … [Read more...] about How To Organize Employee Records in Your Small Business
Tips To Be Better Prepared for EOY Tax Return
Each year, we need to go through paperwork and create some order so we can give it to our accountant, right. We may have to go through piles and piles of neglected papers and receipts to find those tax deductible gold copies that will help us. We all gather these receipts each year, but we don't have to spend a lot of time doing this task. I swear we don't have to spend a lot of time at all. Here are my favorite tips to help be better prepared for the end of year business … [Read more...] about Tips To Be Better Prepared for EOY Tax Return
New Year Goals
Welcome to the new year! Can't believe the holidays are over and we are starting back to work to focus on this year's goals. This year, I have decided to rotate through several topics. Here is a list of topics (New Year Goals) I plan on visiting throughout the year. Bookkeeping/Money Management - these posts will involve tips about QuickBooks or Quicken and other ways to save money in your small business. Office desk organizing - These posts will be about ways to declutter and determine … [Read more...] about New Year Goals
Important Tips to Organize Office Files – So Anyone Can Find Them
With small business offices, there are usually one or two people who know how the office files are organized. Which results in those people being interrupted several times throughout the day with questions on where paper files are in the archives. And when that person who knows the organize office files information leaves or they work part-time, there can be major upset and upheaval with office productivity. Ask yourself these questions: Will the new part-timers know where everything is? … [Read more...] about Important Tips to Organize Office Files – So Anyone Can Find Them
Simple Tips to Organize Your Invoice Process
Recently, I was working with a client helping her set up an invoice system to speed up the invoice process she needed to do each month and dreaded it so much. She would procrastinate for days. This client has about 15 recurring clients that she was necessary to bill random work hours at different rates from the previous month. She would write all her invoices by hand and then write the envelope by hand. It would take her hours, maybe even days to do all the invoices. We had an … [Read more...] about Simple Tips to Organize Your Invoice Process
