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Grow (or Empower) Your People

What Employee Engagement Means And Why It Matters

Employee engagement is key for successful small businesses.

Companies Are Tracking Employees to Nab Traitors

Companies are tracking and analyzing employee behavior to protect sensitive company data.

Why It's So Hard to Fill Sales Jobs

The difficulties businesses face in filling sales jobs.

6 Key Steps to Influencing Effective Knowledge Transfer in Your Business

Transferring business operational knowledge to multiple employees avoids problems if a key employee should leave.

3 "Simple" Business Decisions That Impact The Future Of Your Employee's Work

Engaging and retaining employees is key to a successful business.

CFO Advice

The Future of the CFO

CEOs expect CFOs to see more big-picture, strategic thinking from their CFOs according to a survey from Forbes Insights and KPMG.

CFOs: You Don't Need All The Answers, Just The Right Questions

CFOs linking their strategy to sales will ensure company growth.

Don't Make Financial Supply Chain Management an Afterthought

There are several steps you can take to ensure you are managing your financial supply chain effectively.

Can a Commercial Card Program Bring Greater Savings and Efficiency to Your Payables Process?

There are several ways in which a Commercial Card Program can improve the payables process.

5 Areas of Your Treasury Operation That Might Benefit from Improvement

Achieve greater operational efficiency through evaluating five areas of your treasury operations.

What's New In Cash Flow Technology?

Cash flow technology can help businesses safeguard themselves against fraud.

Why an Effective Working Capital Management Strategy Matters

To achieve working capital management goals there are solutions to address accounts receivable and payments efficiency.

Partnering Across Your Organization: Why Effective Working Capital Management Takes a Village

This article details the value and benefits of engaging the entire organization, educating them on what working capital means and how non-treasury areas can actively participate in efforts that will impact the bottom line.

Improved Cash Flow: A Hidden Source of Self-Financing

This article shows how implementing an effective cash management program allows treasurers to manage their working capital more effectively, optimizing cash flow and uncovering a hidden source of capital.

Give Your Working Capital Plan an Annual Physical: How Treasury Can Sustain Cash Flow Improvements

The dynamic nature of business necessitates conducting periodic "health checks" in order to evaluate the vital signs of your treasury organization. Learn best practices for conducting a yearly checkup of your working capital management plan.

Define, Develop, Execute: Putting Together an Effective Working Capital Management Plan

Cash flow is the lifeblood of your business. This article walks you through a strategic approach to managing working capital, allowing you to free cash flow and maintain a healthy financial state.

Minimize (or Manage) Risks

Are You Ready For The Huge Liability Facing U.S. Merchants in 2015?

Merchants will be affected by upcoming EMV chips embedded in credit cards

Protect Your Ideas: How to Stay Away From Trademark Infringement.

Protecting assets and the brand of your small business is important.

Best Practices in Fraud Prevention

Explore how you can help protect your organization from fraud by implementing these best practices.

Protect Yourself Against Malware

Find out how Malware works and what you can do to protect yourself and your business.

Act on the Economy

The unbalanced global economy: American Shopper

The world is once again relying too much on American consumers to power growth

How Merging Companies Can Beat The Synergy Odds

Synergy strategies for companies merging into one.

Deflation: Feeling Down

How deflation affects your business.

Act on Your Industry

Era of Business Disruption-Why C-Suite Needs To Focus On An Organic Growth Strategy

Collaboration amongst key C-suite members to make evidence-based decisions regarding corporate strategy.

Hospital Profits Soar As Obamacare Prescribes More Paying Patients

Obamacare leads to hospitals receiving more payments for patient treatment.

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2015 Tax Planning Guide

Fifth Third Bank prepared the 2015 Tax Planning Guide to simplify the complexities of changing tax provisions in 2015.

2015 Charitable Giving Guide

Fifth Third Bank's 2015 Charitable Giving Guide offers key considerations for creating a gifting strategy that helps maximize impact with the causes that mean the most to you.

Understanding Participant Loan Limits

As a plan sponsor, you are not required to offer plan loans. Many employers make this feature available, however, to encourage participation. The reasoning is that if your employees — particularly younger, lower paid employees — know they can access the money in their plan accounts, they'll be more comfortable contributing to your plan.

Recent Developments

Catch up on the latest developments in the retirement plan industry.

Hardship Distribution and Loan Documentation

The April 2, 2015, edition of the IRS newsletter for plan sponsors (Employer Plan News) contained an important reminder: Plan sponsors that permit hardship distributions or participant loans should review their current practices to ensure they are operating in compliance with IRS requirements.

EPCRS Revised

On March 27, 2015, the IRS published Revenue Procedure 2015-27. The new guidance revises certain correction methods under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) and makes changes to Revenue Procedure 2013-12, the current version of EPCRS.

Smart Beta – The Latest Passive Investment Trend

Passive investing is the investment of assets into an investment vehicle designed and mandated to track a particular index. The most tracked index in the world in terms of assets and investment product offerings is, of course, the S&P 500 Index. Other examples could be the Russell 2000 Index (small cap domestic equity), the Barclays Aggregate Index (total domestic fixed income), or the MSCI EAFE Index, which is the standard institutional international equity index.

Oil: Searching for a Bottom

After years of crude oil above $100 per barrel, intensive capital investment in energy extraction and rising production caused an imbalance in demand and supply. Extensive supply led to a precipitous decline in oil prices globally, which has pressured some exploration and production to reassess future production plans and to determine whether further extraction could be formidable going forward.

Implications of Federal Reserve Policy

The market reaction to an eventual increase in the Federal Funds Rate has wide implications going forward. Loose monetary policy from the Federal Reserve helped stimulate the economy at the beginning stages of the recovery, although it has lost significance as the economy returns to normalcy. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members recognize this, but would rather wait for clarity before modifying monetary policy.

A Case for Small &s; Mid Caps

Passive investing is the investment of assets into an investment vehicle designed and mandated to track a particular index. The most tracked index in the world in terms of assets and investment product offerings is, of course, the S&P 500 Index. Other examples could be the Russell 2000 Index (small cap domestic equity), the Barclays Aggregate Index (total domestic fixed income), or the MSCI EAFE Index, which is the standard institutional international equity index.

The 5 Most Common Frustrations of an Entrepreneur

Small business survey results to help with informed business decisions

Small Business Report Offers Findings for Informed Business Decisions

Small business survey results to help with informed business decisions

5 Digital Marketing Rules Every Small Business Needs to Know

Helpful tips for digital marketing your small business.

How to Improve Your Sales Team's Performance

Helpful tips for digital marketing your small business.

Employee Retention 101: How to Keep a Talented Team Intact

Helpful tips for businesses to retain top talent employees

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