
Have you ever wondered how the government provides us with this information, when we know friends, family, colleagues who have been out of work for a couple years, or not receiving unemployment benefits anymore? Are they included in the numbers reported? The Dept. of Labor compiles the numbers from an array of sources. There are [...]

$37,677,677.00 of Rockingham County’s 2009 Expenses recorded as “Other or Other Operating”???

Fiscal year 2009 reporting information is available online at the North Carolina Department of Treasury website. The total expenditures for fiscal year 2009 were $112,795,738.00 according to the filings pursuant to the Annual Financial Report guidelines. Of this amount, 33% of the budget was spent on the categories – Other Operating and Other. Per capita [...]

Website connects important information about our local government entities

The Section 9006 Healthcare Bill is 2,409 pages long. Near the end of the bill there is a provision dealing with 1099 reporting. The new mandate states that all companies are mandated to send 1099 tax forms not just for contract workers but to any individual or corporation from which the buy more than $600.00 [...]

Recently I read the report “The Impact of Regulatory Cost on Small Firms” from the SBA Office of Advocacy and was not surprised at the information.

In today’s world, business owners can no longer encapsulate themselves in a closed environment. The world has gotten smaller, the competition has gotten larger; all of this due to technology. You are no longer just competing with your neighbor down the road or the “big boxes”, you are competing with the internet and the comfort [...]