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Benefits and Drawbacks of Payroll Software

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By Daniel Bailey

(For Financial Independence Hub)

Payroll software eliminates the need to calculate payroll for your team manually. It also helps you track tax laws and deductions automatically. Look for a system with a simple interface and clear, contextual feature hints for non-technical staff. It should also provide secure integrations with HR and accounting platforms to bring these three departments under one roof.

Time-Saving

Payroll software can save your company a lot of time and money. For example, it eliminates the need to print paper timesheets and payslips for every employee. It reduces the amount of storage needed in your office and allows you to customize the payroll data for each employee. In addition, payroll software can also automatically send payments to employees, government agencies, and benefits providers. It can also file payroll taxes and handle end-of-year tax forms for employees. It will reduce your accounting department’s time running payroll and allow them to focus on more important tasks.

Additionally, payroll systems can store all your data in a single digital system, making it easy to access and analyze at the end of each pay period. You can use this information to plan future staff costs and budgets more accurately. Additionally, these systems can help you improve project returns by analyzing the number of hours your employees work. However, it is important to remember the costs associated with implementing payroll software. These costs can be recurring or one-time and include the cost of the software itself, plus ongoing maintenance. Some vendors offer a monthly subscription for a fixed number of users, while others charge a per-employee fee or a one-time purchase price.

Security

When a company chooses the right payroll management software, it’s crucial to consider security. Ensure that the solution offers data encryption and other protective features. It is especially important if you’re dealing with sensitive employee information. It will protect the organization’s employees from hackers and ensure no one can access private information that shouldn’t be shared. A decent payroll system should also provide safe connectors so payroll personnel and employees may use the platform from any location and device. It makes it easier to manage the different teams involved in payroll processing. For example, it should have a feature that allows employees to change their bank account details and other personal information without contacting HR. Continue Reading…

Avoid costly mistakes in penny stocks and venture capital by navigating Speculation Booms

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In the 1990s and early 2000s, many Internet stocks rose to extraordinary heights based on the number of visits to their websites, rather than dollars in their bank accounts. Back then, lots of analysts and investors believed that these stocks could go on rising indefinitely. Instead, the Internet stock boom ended suddenly, like almost every speculation boom does. Most of the top Internet stocks collapsed and brought huge losses to investors.

Investors need to be wary when the signs of a speculation boom appear, especially in both venture capital and penny stocks. 

Venture capital investing is subject to a speculation boom

We rule out some investment areas regularly when we feel they offer bad odds of making a gain. For example, venture capital investing is always highly volatile. What’s more, high management and other fees tend to offset lots of gains in good years, and eat up a lot of your capital in bad ones.

Now is a particularly bad time for individual investors to delve into venture capital. That’s because a number of highly innovative technology investments have done remarkably well, and this has helped spark an enormous boom in the field. Money has been flooding into venture capital investments in recent years. In speculation boom, a flood of money tends to bid up the prices of all opportunities, good and bad.

Note, however, that many of today’s venture-capital success stories have yet to reach profitability. They are taking in ever-larger amounts of money from outside investors, and expanding their revenues by using these incoming funds to finance negative cash flow.

Even the most promising opportunities can fail to make the transition from exciting start-up to self-sustaining, profitable company.

You run into the same problem in venture capital investing as in penny-stock investing: It’s easier to launch a venture-capital deal or a stock promotion than it is to create a profitable business.

If you profit during a speculation boom, consider the “sell-half” rule for your speculative stocks

Selling half of hot stocks that surge helps you guard your profits. But apply this rule only to more aggressive stocks, and not to the well-established stocks that may surprise you by going a lot higher in the long run.

Knowing when to sell a stock is one of the most important factors in successful investing: it’s almost as important as knowing when not to sell. That’s why we advise investors to follow a key rule when it comes to rising stocks.

Whether your approach to investing is conservative or aggressive, the quality of your investments matters much more than your skill at selling. Continue Reading…

Is Venture Capitalism right for your Business?

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By Daniel Bailey

For the Financial Independence Hub

Launching a startup is a daunting challenge. Not only do you need to have an innovative idea for a product or service, but you need to secure funding to support the company until it begins to turn a profit. There are many options for funding and you may try to obtain a bank loan, angel investor or venture capitalist to help your business thrive. In many cases, a venture capitalist will be the most beneficial as you can receive managerial and technical advice in addition to financial assistance. Venture capital is not the right solution for every startup, however, so make sure you can answer these five questions to determine if it is the best option for your business.

Do you have a Prototype or Business Model ready?

It is not enough to simply have an idea for a great new product if you want to attract investors. You need to have a prototype to showcase during your pitches for financial assistance. Not only just you have a working prototype, but it needs to be refined so investors can see that you have already assessed it and accounted for minor problems in the design. Your final prototype will likely look much different than the initial one, so it is crucial to have performed the necessary construction and made changes before approaching potential investors. If you do not have a prototype or a solid business model in place, your company is not ready for the growth a venture capitalist usually brings.

Is it the right time to seek an investor?

Seeking an investor out immediately after you have an idea for a new business is a mistake. If you want your company to be successful, you must perform a few critical steps before searching for an investor, especially if you intend to seek out a venture capitalist. Venture capitalists such as Mark Stevens, the managing partner of S-Cubed Capital, look for startups with limited revenue and potential for explosive growth. You should work to get your company’s name out to customers so you can build a solid customer base and establish a solid projection for future profits so you can meet these criteria and attract investors.

Are you willing to share equity in your company?

Unlike traditional bank loans or angel investors that simply offer financial backing, venture capitalists often take a stake in the company’s equity in exchange for their expertise. T Continue Reading…