Property Crimes

The South Jersey chicken man has just shown up with a handful of non negotiable checks, nine cases of raw wings for the Schmekelman's reception and refuses to deliver unless you hand over...

You know by now that your credit score is a rather important number. It takes your entire financial history and condenses it down into one number. (Read about how your FICO score is...

Social Computing:  An Amusing Anecdote About Who is Participating We learned something about Wikipedia tonight.  Mariquita was reading an article on Castro on CNN.com entitled "Castro Blames Stress on Surgery" about his...

Well, if you thought Phil Mickelson had a bad day on Sunday when he blew the lead in the US Open , how would you like to be in charge of public relations...

Believe it or not, many companies provide credit cards to employees and then never monitor what is being charged. I know this because I was an accountant working for a couple of those...

Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Really smart people learn from other people's mistakes. And boy, we can all get a graduate based on the boneheaded blunders made by the Veterans Administration...

How comfortable are your employees in dealing with customers who come from different backgrounds and cultures? For those of you in retail, the holiday season is upon us unleashing a flood of new...

A great deal of my background is in accounting and I am very passionate about the work that I do for my clients. It is my belief that business owners need to focus...

It only takes one equipment melt-down, computer theft, hurricane, landslide, or fire to immediately see the value of data protection. And yet, three out of five small to mid-sized businesses still do not...

The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a Web site — StopFakes -- dedicated to small businesses and protecting their intellectual property (IP), both in the U.S....

When I'm frustrated by mistreatment in a retail purchase transaction, I usually state, calmly, that "I'm just trying to be a customer." Mistreatment to me is when staff (or owner) does not seem...