2009 BR in review

Wow! Business Ready manages to make it through another year and it is all thanks to you!  It’s crazy to think that without any marketing we have:

been visited by folks in over 167 countries (top 5 being Canada, US, UK, Australia and India);
we have grown our unique visitors from approx. 3K/month to 7K/month;
we continue [...]

aaaaaaand, we’re back!

What an unbelievable turn around in September!  Almost all of my portfolio companies experienced an incredible uptick in sales in the last three weeks of the quarter.  Are we finally in the recovery period?  Has the bleeding finally stopped?
I believe there is an overall sentiment of optimism on the rise that is somewhat supported by [...]

time to update travel guidelines!

Happy New Year!  You’re back in the office, you are potentially trying to close the books but you are also trying to update all the expense guidelines for 2009.  If you have purchased the Travel Guidelines that we created, you will need to update the following:
2009 Mileage Rates: in Canada, per CRA, it is still [...]

payroll deduction changes in 2009

Continuing our theme of processing payroll for year end and preparing for 2009 I thought I would post a quick reminder to review payroll source deduction limits.
What’s new in Canada payroll per Canada Revenue Agency (”CRA”)?
Annual employment insurance to be deducted from employee pay is $731.79 in 2009 (up from $711 in 2008) and the [...]