Here’s a statistic that wouldn’t surprise many of your colleagues: 49% of US workers are living paycheck to paycheck, according to this year’s MetLife survey on trends in employee benefits. Given that pressure...

The payment method employees use when traveling can have a major impact on your T&E process – for better or for worse. And in 2019, employees are still using personal credit cards (65%) more than company credit cards (37%) for travel expenses, according to a new survey from Wex and MasterCard. What gives personal cards such staying power? For some companies...

GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. hosted an outlook meeting with analysts and investors today. He walked them through the company’s plans to deliver on its strategic priorities of improving its financial position and strengthening its businesses in 2019 and beyond. As part of the guidance for 2019...

Imagine you're the proud owner of Los Pollos Hermanos, a fast-food empire with 14 locations in the American southwest that you've built on the twin pillars of perfectly seasoned fried chicken and meticulously maintained restaurants. The year is 2018, and...

Recent reports on payment trends have called out the negative impacts of a cashless society. Whilst it seems that we are rapidly moving towards this trend universally, there is some cause for concern on what this means for the many millions of people that rely on cash. So how do we get to a cashless society that is responsible, informative and inclusive?...

As the net worth of the five richest American company founders has more than doubled over five years, the personal security costs to their companies have not grown at the same rate—with the exception of Mark Zuckerberg. The billionaire Facebook founder draws...

Sitting in a modest room in New York’s ­immodest Peninsula Hotel, the richest person in the world for most of the past 20 years ponders an existential question suddenly in vogue among the left’s confiscatory set...

It’s finally here! After years of waiting and more than 200,000 public comments, the Department of Labor (DOL) just released the proposed rules overhauling the federal overtime system. The new overtime threshold will be...

Most days you may feel like employees’ cell phones are surgically attached to their hands – at their desks, in meetings, even in the company restroom! But beware: Those little devices can saddle you with a big legal bill. How big? Try $5.4 million...

You know it’s a great one-two punch for containing healthcare costs: Pair a high deductible health plan (HDHP) with a health savings account (HSA). These days...

To cut costs whenever and wherever possible, your finance staffers must be able to recognize purchases that qualify for sales and use tax exemptions. But that’s easier said than done.   Even B.J. Pritchett, president of Pritchett Sales & Use Tax Consulting, admits that...

CollegeWise is the leading college admissions agency in the world. It scores in the 99th percentile in Gallup engagement surveys. And for the past four years, it has had a near 0 percent turnover rate. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) puts the annual turnover rate for companies at around...

The CIO role continues to grow, thanks in large part to digital transformation, with IT executives adding new responsibilities, ranging from data analytics to product development, according to our 2019 State of the CIO. To meet these goals and continue to innovate...

The U.S. trade deficit widened in 2018 to a 10-year high of $621 billion, bucking President Donald Trump’s pledges to reduce it, as tax cuts boosted domestic demand for imports while the strong dollar and retaliatory tariffs weighed on exports. The annual deficit in goods and services increased by...

The U.S. is giving American exporters a sizable tax break on the goods and services they sell overseas. But the benefit might not be enough to convince Corporate America to expand its U.S. operations beyond what it was already planning. Instead...

Warren Buffett has a hot tip for you. A sure thing. Really, Warren Buffett is telling you how exactly to make lots of money without being, well, Warren Buffett. Here’s the nugget...

Drivers on Interstate 25 in Colorado have been speculating about the fate of hundreds of Volkswagen cars sitting in a lot near Pikes Peak International Raceway. It’s one of...