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How the Bank Crisis Affects Orange County Business Owners

How the Bank Crisis Affects Orange County Business Owners

Now, I know that I recently started talking about the new FinCEN reporting requirement and promised a part two… which I’ll absolutely get to in an upcoming blog.But this time I wanted to take the opportunity to speak about the banking “crisis” that has a lot of Orange...

Sawyer’s Best Practices for Terminating an Employee

Sawyer’s Best Practices for Terminating an Employee

We’ve all got a bit of FOMO about FOMC’s (Federal Open Market Committee’s) big meeting this week, waiting to see if yet another interest rate hike will be coming. Most indicators say likely.Since March 2022, there have been NINE such increases to interest rates...

Keeping Tax Records: Orange County Small Biz Edition

Keeping Tax Records: Orange County Small Biz Edition

If you’re doing the books, juggling the hiring, navigating supply problems, delivering work to clients, and thinking about big-picture items for the year … you might be a small business owner.If you’ve got a lot on your mind and more gets added daily? You might be a...

Leadership Development in Your Orange County Business

Leadership Development in Your Orange County Business

 Unless you’ve been living in a cave like this woman, you know that business ownership is a tough gig right now — it’s nearly an Olympic sport to keep things running and moving ahead. But, despite all that, being a business owner is also pretty great....

Making a Plan to Reskill and Upskill Your Staff

Making a Plan to Reskill and Upskill Your Staff

Well, here we are — just like that, we find ourselves already a quarter of the way through 2023. While people all across Orange County are breaking out the deep cleaning sprays and scrub brushes to get a little springtime sparkle, you might want to be thinking about a...

How a Continuous Audit Helps Your Orange County Business

How a Continuous Audit Helps Your Orange County Business

My quick take on SVB: Don’t let it rob you of your focus for building the business under YOUR control.In other words, let noise be noise … and focus on what’s most important: your immediate world.But I will say that this crisis is a perfect example of why you should...