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Employers

Employers have a responsibility to complete specific tasks related to the wages paid to employees. Most of these tasks have a deadline attached. Different types of companies may need more forms. It is always best to confirm your requirements with the IRS. In January, the first month of the year, employers will be ending the previous year of aspects related to the information. Employers are to be presented, with the IRS, the previous year’s 4th quarter form 941 / 943 or.

Determine if the withholding tax (Federal, Social Security and/or Medicare) rates have changed since the previous year. If the rates have changed, you must have the necessary changes. For employers who use automated payroll software these tax rates shall be adjusted for you. The deadline for the issuance of the W2 forms to employees, also come to the end of the month. Employers have the obligation to issue copies W2 B, C, and exemplary n 2 of the State to its employees. With the second month of the year come a little more tasks. This is the deadline to submit a copy of forms W2 and W3 with the Social Security Administration. Take the time to make the form 941 B and / or 943 match totals and the W3 form information.

In February, employers in food service with more than 10 employees, must submit a Form 8027 for employees who receive tips. Employees will not be presenting a new W4 form, but will be claiming exemptions, will need to retain a rate without exemptions. Throughout the year the Social Security Administration can request W2 forms of identity data corrections. The second quarter of the fiscal year begins in April. You will need to archive the 1st trimester 941 form the last day of the month of April. In the second trimester, the form 941 is due the last day of the month of July, which includes payroll from April 1 to June 30. In October, the third trimester, the form 941 is due, including periods of July through September payroll. If It will generate the forms W2 and W3, October is a good time of year to make supply orders. In November it has to request publication 393, MMREF Social Security Administration (SSA) or internal tax services (IRS), if you have not received it. If employers have the plan to submit electronically the W2 information, must update their password with Social security or services of internal taxes (IRS) on-line. Before end of the year, employees should update their W-5 and W-4 forms for next year. Petitioners must prove its process for next year although submitted it electronically or in the form of impression. This can include testing payroll software in its way of printing or electronic submission of the Accuwage test files. To avoid a fine, you have to remember that everything in end of term of service of internal taxes (IRS) is fulfilled. For extensive instructions on the forms, publications and deadlines, you may contact the IRS by phone or on-line. The beginning of the new year’s taxes, can be an excellent time to invest in Payroll Mate software. A full program of payroll can save you money and time to users and, at the same time can avoid costly errors in the forms of payroll calculation. For a free trial of the software Payroll Mate follow this link: payroll software download original author and source of the article

Family Foundation Invests

Asset forest at family foundations increasingly popular American Family Foundation acquired from ForestFinance an own bigger Finca as a sustainable property investment. The sustainable forest management for a rotational period is included in the purchase price. A particularly environmentally-friendly management of the surfaces of the investing Family Foundation was very important. So, including over 20 per cent of the total area of the management are excluded. They serve as a retreat area for rare animal and plant species. Also the farmed land are certified sustainably farmed.

A study awarded by the “Munich forest science company” recently demonstrated that biodiversity in ForestFinance is significantly higher than in monoculture forests. Up to 50 different trees and plants make up a new species-rich forest permanently, because no clear-cutting is operated during the harvest. Forest investments Wertstabil and yield strong: tropical forest investments are due to their low volatility and relatively high average returns particularly suitable for family foundations as a diversification investment. So forest investment index in the United States completed only once NCREIF during the decades with a loss for the year. Because the biological value of the trees balances short-term price declines.

The average annual return of the forest investment index amounted to over 14 per cent and cut better than all known equity indices. “Just for sustainable and long-term thinking investors tropical forest is an increasingly selected investment form”, so Harry Aboagye, Managing Director of the ForestFinance group. “Because forest – especially sustainably managed tropical forests is an for decades proven instrument for safeguarding assets for responsibly investing family foundations.” Asset protection by asset value forest: in times of the financial crisis investors more value put on asset protection, so that it comes to a change of in investment strategy. “Increasingly large private pulling money out of conventional financial products and” invest in real assets, such as for example tropical forests”, explains Harry Assenmacher.

Marketing Seminar

In the trade fair city of Hanover, Fundamentals of marketing meet considering the question of how to create successful marketing is not only for professionals in the field of sales management increasingly the diversity of today’s advertising opportunities. Essential core elements of marketing remain indispensable despite growing media diversity. The procurement of all relevant information include (screening) on the market, as well as the release of matching advertisements (signalling). Screening and signalling screening for example means, to be informed about the needs of the target group of the own product or know the differences of similar products when compared to their own. Best practices for the procurement of information in marketing are for example market research, product-related benchmarking or surveys of customer satisfaction. In the subsequent signalling, information about the invariant properties of the own product in a well recognizable core message are emitted through the marketing. While it depends on the To make to fit to the own product advertising and also to the needs of the intended target group identified in the screening. The fair trade as a marketing tool is a particularly expressive tool in the marketing mix, because it allows direct communication with customers, suppliers and competitors.

At the presentation of their products at a trade fair which takes place screening and signaling in a sort of microcosm in a limited time in a small space. So, visit a trade fair offers the chance to inform compact space about the latest products of the major competitors. In addition to these excellent possibilities for screening, signalling is the main goal at a trade fair, for example the CEBIT in Hannover. Opportunities at the Produktpasentation take advantage of signalling on the fair means to present the customers life their own products and their benefits. Thus the advantage to get feedback on its products in dialogue with clients immediately connects for the provider.

This is the easiest way to get suggestions for improving future product. In the conversation with customers, prospective customers, but also competitors the Exhibitor WINS at the same time valuable insights about the target audience and the competitors. Learn fundamentals of marketing in the trade fair city of Hanover as the acquisition and transmission of information can be made, explains the experienced marketing expert Gunther Wolf in two seminars in Hanover. Both seminars provide an overview of all the important basics of marketing. The seminar “basics marketing” at the 16th and 17.08.2011 particularly suitable for new recruits or career changers in marketing, which would acquire profound basic knowledge. In this two-day seminar in the trade fair city of Hanover, the participants can deepen theoretical knowledge with practical examples and discuss their own experiences. Crash-course marketing staff from sales and sales, as well as executives from other areas can alternatively, located in the one-day intensive course on the 18.08.2011 compact theoretical basic knowledge in marketing to acquire.

Attitude Towards Life

For a long time I was very dissatisfied with my life, I always felt cheated that I was always upset because of the fact that I do not have those things that I wanted to have, I have not the environment that I would like to have, and so etc. Because the fact that I did not have all this, I always put aside their lives for later. I always thought: That's when I had it all appears, then I'll have fun and start to live fully! But not today, today it is not an appropriate day! Passed few years, and in my life, nothing has changed, I also displeased. From my grudges, nothing has changed, all the same. I began to think: what am I doing wrong? Gradually began to come answer my question, it turned out much easier than I could ever imagine! It was necessary, just change my attitude to life. My main mistake was that I always lived somehow, the future or the past, I was worried about those things that once made, or that what will be my future. But the past can not go back, back there somewhere, behind, the only thing you can do is learn from past mistakes.

And the future in general is so unpredictable, that today you live in one place, and Tomorrow you may be in another, the future can only plan. But we can not know what tomorrow will bring, we have only today. Today is the perfect time to live and enjoy life, not yesterday, not tomorrow, but it is today. Dear reader, if you live in the past or the future, then begin to live today. My second mistake was that I did nothing, I did not have a favorite or interesting to do, I always do, what to do, not what want, though by nature I am a talented person. In this life we must find ourselves a lesson that will be fun. This can be anything, for someone to paint a picture, for another to collect stamps.

Yes, all that anything to it gave pleasure. In this life, everyone is talented in his own way. Dear reader, if you're not doing an interesting thing to you, then they start to engage as soon as possible! The following error is not my appreciative attitude toward life. I was so stupid that they always pay attention not to what I have, but on what is not. I realized that I should be glad that there is, because if it is good you look closely, you can see so much good things in life. Representing the mentally imagine the scale and weighed them, all that is and what is not, it will be immediately obvious that we have a lot more! We can see, hear, walk, and this is already done. Shelves in stores tumbled from eating, and in during the war people had nothing to eat. We must be content with what you have today, we must be grateful. And our lives can change only if we change the attitude towards it! So, dear reader, Begin to rejoice that you have, and I know you've got a lot!

Thomas Mann

But since when are there cards at all? They were never really out and just relive a revival: business cards convey a touch of individual value, no matter how functional real-time mode can beat in the age of the Smartphone and Facebook. Has brought his business card, not just at the main station from the machine, but is carefully thought made about paper quality, type and significance, it is always something permanent to. When you give away something of themselves, that the contact even long preserve can. How fast is deleted an email, a text message or a contact profile a business card is durable and resistant. Visit racks make easy also it companies, in shops and offices, to make advertising at stands or at the PoS for and offer a personal touch to take.

But since when present we us business cards actually? From the pyramids to China, historians believe, that high officials in the ancient Egypt at inaugural visit and important meetings presented described pieces of Papyrus, which emphasized the status of the owner. There are no artifacts but. Just as little as from century of 15th China, where you should have maintained the same custom. Sure is if you stay in this culture that, at least in Japan the meishi, called business card has always been is extremely important. Provides information about it, such as the name of their holder correctly written is a sheer necessity due to the variety of similarly outspoken characters.

And how she so above is achieved, that outer shape and face are preserved, is accurately determined: the younger or lower rank interlocutor passes it a bow with both hands. This is by no means, like us, immediately stowed in any bag, but respectfully taken note and a while remains visible to the new owner. As if it were a part of the soul of the cardholder obliges them to wisely use and must therefore put away, for example, never in the back pocket be. Only in the larger style when it comes to service contact or trade fair appearance, Japanese use business card holders as we. At the Court of the Sun King, the first actually detectable cards came up during the reign of Louis XIV in Europe. Own master of ceremonies, who took the artfully printed and decorated tiles in reception served as business card holder at the time a well-trained servants, with major festivities. Made a visit or you received at certain times, as it is in the society until the 20th century custom was. As a visitor of a superscript, renowned House you had to login to the servant and gave to his business card. And it was worn on a silver platter in the Grand Salon. Many great novels very vividly depict such scenes. Based on the business card brought the decision was made then again with the servant as mid whether the visit was ever desired. Thomas Mann and the brown bear to carefully establish contacts, it was quite customary to leave his business card and to go home. The presented map was no compulsion, but a potential contact, that you could use, but didn’t have to. This business card is gradually for anyone easily, status-oriented and still as individual as ever and ever. One of the imaginative business card holder of the past is a stuffed brown bear with a tray in the paws and formerly part of the noble household of the Prince of poets Thomas Mann to visit Munich literature Cafe.

Business Communication

Documents from SAP ERP by mail send to the Institute for Business Informatics of the Leibniz University of Hanover around six billion invoices in the classic post shipped in Germany. Mailing costs money the documents by mail instead of sending e-mail is time-consuming and expensive: the documents must printed, are folded, envelopes, the envelopes sealed and stamped. The postage for a standard letter is currently 58 cents. The cost of consumable items such as stationery, envelopes and toner to be added. Also going to the post office is to take into account.

Faster, more economical and easier business communication via E-mail – runs no matter what industry. The E-Mail in terms of cost and speed is superior to the fax. m/s/s mail Center for SAP – that time – and cost-saving solution to many companies that use SAP ERP, customers, prospects, suppliers and partners to business communication to necessary SAP documents still in paper form. But why not SAP ERP to use to deliver business mail email? Easier said than done, because ERP standard offers a convenient tool of SAP for email traffic. So, the standard has deficits on important issues such as receiver determination, mail processing, management of file attachments and email design.

Companies that want to use SAP ERP and send SAP documents quickly and efficiently via email, need an IT solution, which seamlessly into the SAP system is involved, can be flexibly adapted to the respective business process and with the emails directly into the ERP back-end creates, edits and sent be can. GmbH meets these and still more the m/s/s mail center of munich enterprise software. The Add-On was developed on the basis of ABAP using ABAP Objects as an object-oriented extension and can ERP be embedded without making any changes and release safely in SAP. Outlook is bound using the OLE technology (object linking and embedding) via an own button in the user interface. The solution provides a integrated IT support for emailing of various business documents directly from SAP ERP and shortens the communication channels to customers, prospects and partners. The Add-On is easy to use and adapt flexibly to the different needs in terms of mail design of sales, purchasing or shipping. Faster ROI by using the E-Mail dispatch of documents from SAP ERP to SAP customers save time and money. The munich enterprise software GmbH offers the SAP Add-On “m/e/s mail center” for this purpose, the appropriate tool. Also the ROI can be seen: as far more than just shipping costs be saved through the use of the solution, whose introduction in many cases pays for itself in less than a year.

Business Climate

Energy consensus climate: Academy offers fourth and fifth module in February 2014 on organic products and the themes of the fourth and fifth module of the energy consensus climate is a climate-friendly procurement: Academy. The seminar of product integration of the market of the future is green”on February 6 leads the expert for the assessment of products under environmental and sustainability aspects, Dr. Ulrike Ebele. On 27 February, the event sustainable supply chain follows climate-friendly procurement”, which Martin Staheli, Division Director for supply chain management at BSD consulting Switzerland, performs. Both modules take place in Bremen, Germany. Interested parties can register now at. The energy consensus climate: Academy is part of the pilot project funded by the Federal Ministry of the environment green transformation.

Initiator is the nonprofit and independent climate protection agency energy consensus. Sustainable innovation as a growth strategy is the model company BASF it: In the fourth module the participants, such as the chemical company information internal climate protection goals specifically refers to its products. “There is climate: corsus corporate sustainability Academy lecturer Dr. Ulrike Eberle, founder of the consulting and Research Centre for sustainability”, at. It introduces the participants in the life cycle assessment of products and ways of ecological design.

Martin Staheli explains how companies can support their existing suppliers in terms of climate protection and what criteria they consider when choosing new suppliers. The speaker of the fifth module advises companies as Director for sustainable supply chain management at BSD consulting worldwide. The participants of the climate benefit from his knowledge of meaningful standards and audits now: Academy. The exchange of experiences and the discussion of individual approaches with other company representatives are in the foreground. Both modules are limited to 20 participants and can be booked online. The cost including catering for 250 euros each. The Bremen energy consensus GmbH is a non-profit society, which is therefore Amount according to 4 No. 22a UStG exempt from sales tax. The event will take place in the rooms of the art and culture of Justice crane Holm in Bremen. For more information see. About green transformation and energy consensus green transformation is a unique Germany-wide training and consulting services for efficient use of resources in terms of entrepreneurial climate on process and product level. Pilot project funded by the national climate protection initiative of the Federal Ministry for environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety is performed by the Bremen air protection agency, nonprofit and independent energy consensus and intended for forward-thinking companies that wish to develop a strategic approach for climate protection. Part of the green transformation is the energy consensus climate: Academy. It encourages a new generation of executives and companies that benefit from in-depth, interdisciplinary process knowledge, enables the climate right to successful action. The pilot project is funded until March 2015. For further information see. The climate protection agency energy consensus works primarily in the State of Bremen, as well as in the regions of Elbe-Weser and Weser-EMS. It initiates and promotes energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy projects, organises information campaigns, builds networks and knowledge to professionals and consumers. You also provides advice on funding and organizes seminars and conferences. Energy consensus was established in 1997 as a public-private partnership. Shareholders are the swb AG, the EWE VERTRIEB GmbH, as well as the free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

Boston Consulting Group China

Asia-Pacific Management GmbH presents itself and the company – and Asia-Pacific management consulting GmbH (APMC) in the exhibition area provides its services at the Hannover Fair from April 8-12 global business & markets”at the Hannover trade fair in Hall 13, booth E20 their services before and offers free initial consultation by appointment through their Asia experts. The APMC’s Managing Director, Dr. Kuang-hua Lin, one of the leading Asia experts in Germany, will be European intercultural communication (CEIC) also on the EU-China economic cooperation (EUCEC) Forum of 2013, as well as the Chinese seminar 2013, both of which take place within the framework of the Hanover Trade fair, various lectures and practical hints, tips and tricks and do BBs and Don type ts to business success in Asia. The EUCEC Forum 2013 takes place on Thursday, the 11th of April in Hall 13, business forum 2. 17:30, Dr.

Lin is aimed with his presentation of M & A in Germany what Chinese investor must know”to Chinese investors, the with help of M & A in Germany secure market entry or would acquire technology know-how. At the CEIC seminar, Dr. Lin is on Friday, April 12, from 10: 00 (“Hall 13, Business Forum 1 in the presentation, do BBs and Don ts in HR management for European companies in China” including the methods of more effective recruitment of employees of different levels of management, employee retention programs, as well as intercultural aspects of HR management respond.) Companies that plan to expand in China through M & A activities get in the paper cultural challenges in M & A projects in China”sound as they overcome cultural obstacles, find an appropriate acquisition and JV partners and what you should pay attention particularly in an M & A project involving Chinese information from practice. In his last speech of the cultural challenge factory in the establishment in China of what foreign investors must know to ensure the success of the projects”, is Dr. Lin all companies who plan its own production in China or already set up. When its own production in China makes sense, with many practical examples demonstrates what hurdles is to be expected and which errors are preventable, is to quickly and cost effectively to be able to set up a production. We ask interested companies with meeting request at the fair to an appointment under the telephone number + 49-211-828942-20. About APMC Asia-Pacific management consulting GmbH (APMC), a company specializing in Asia and human resources consulting is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Since 1997, supported APMC with numerous branches, as well as qualified German and Asian employees about 400 German and European companies in their expansion in Asia and has successfully implemented numerous projects throughout Asia. The performance spectrum of APMC in addition to the classical fields of management consulting (strategy consulting, market research) also recruitment, M & A, creation (plants and offices), crisis management, including in diverse industries. APMC has also intercultural training sessions and seminars to Asia, in particular China and India, at. About Dr. Kuang-hua Lin Dr. rer. pol. Kuang-hua Lin is Director and sole shareholder of APMC. Before founding APMC in 1997, he worked as a consultant at the international consulting firm the Boston Consulting Group in Dusseldorf and advised numerous companies in Germany and Asia. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and graduated as Diplom-Volkswirt at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg i. br., Germany, where he also gained his doctorate.

Internet Auctions

Today almost every user with the experience of surfing the Internet more than a week already aware of the existence of online auctions. Brands such as eBay.com and Molotok.ru not remain in the shadow of obscurity, and attract hundreds of thousands of visitors the opportunity to save on purchases, and earn on sales. But if the first auction – Molotok.ru more familiar with it Russian-speaking audience, the latter has long been won worldwide recognition as the largest auction Internet. Conceptual ideas that were used specifically for creating and promoting eBay auction later formed the basis for the development of the Internet auction business worldwide. That auction eBay.com laid the first brick in the foundation for a multi-billion auction industry. But what determined its success and continuing growth of its popularity? What is the basis constant growth stock auction eBay? Let's try to find the answer in the dungeons of history an eBay auction was Founded in September 1995, American Pierre Omidyar.

At that time it was the first such site of its kind in the world. Code to it when Pierre Omidyar wrote for one weekend, but now over the maintenance of the site runs the army programmers. The first thing sold on eBay.com has become a broken laser pointer for $ 14, which belonged to the founder of the auction. As can be seen, a great success began with small acts. Literally in a few weeks, the site became to gain popularity, it began to flock to visitors from different countries.

Chief Executive Microsoft UK

US investigating authorities can access data stored in the cloud. This Specter is taking shape through European studies. But where and under what conditions the data stored are really concerned? A European Government has in principle, however, expressed, to use American cloud services: the Netherlands are the ones which have opted for this absolute path. The local Minister for security and justice, Ivo Opstelten, would like to prevent that US authorities have access to sensitive data on Dutch citizens. Cause for this decisive step is the United States PATRIOT Act (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act), which obligates all companies that have their headquarters in the United States, to cooperate with the investigating authorities, all preceded the FBI. That means basically that companies from the United States of such offers and contracts are closed out,”replied Minister Ivo Opstelten on a parliamentary inquiry on the subject (zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl… ). Also if the United States PATRIOT in force is Act since October 2001, on the occasion of the Office 365-presentation in London was attention in June 2011 more on: on the question of whether Microsoft can guarantee that data from EU customers, who are located in EU based data centers, leave the European economic area under any circumstances even if a prompt under the PATRIOT Act”, said Gordon Frazer, Chief Executive Microsoft UK: Microsoft can not provide such guarantees, other companies can’t do this.” “The independent Centre for data protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) explained the results of his demand for company (www.datenschutzzentrum.de/ ..patriot act.html): this issue applies not only for companies, whose group mothers have their headquarters in the United States, but also for German companies with other group ties in the United States.” For that the existence of an independent U.S.

Office not once is necessary. It could not Guarantee provided, not issued in case of a US-arrangement-European data.” Comes the Faculty of law of the University of Amsterdam, in a recent study (Cloud_Computing_Patriot_Act_2012.pdf) to the same conclusion and added that it is sufficient for a direct access in the US investigating authorities, if a provider has its headquarters across the Atlantic as it is Apple, Google or Microsoft of the case from Amazon, or systematically conducts business in the United States. It is a misconception that data directly on servers located in the United States would have to be stored. It continues in the study, that European privacy laws offer no protection against the application of U.S. law and their application cannot be used from also through contractual agreements with the cloud provider. Because the data from non-U.S. citizens are not protected by the US Constitution. In this light, the first harsh published Dutch decision is comprehensible and understandable.

That is why it offers Transmitted AG out of conviction and to protect of your data according to the Federal Data Protection Act (www.gesetze-im-internet.de/…) only to services that are not the United States PATROIT Act. The transmitted servers are spread across two data centers in Frankfurt am Main, which are connected by an own fiber ring. In addition to resilience through different power grids and two locations we provide this security by redundant construction, active access controls and personalized security key.