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Whose responsibility is it to maintain employee relations?

Is it management or the employees responsibility is it to maintain employee relations?

Each company requires a balance of both positions. However, being a leader involves more than simply guiding people. Just as the top of the company needs balance, so do the employees reporting to management. Employee relations refer to the company’s efforts to maintain positive relationships with its employees.

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Preparing your business for Fiscal Year End

The financial year end of a company (also known as Fiscal Year End or FYE) is undoubtedly the busiest period of a business’s year.
Essentially, it is the wrapping up of the company’s accounts for the business year. This assists all key stakeholders assess the company’s profits, losses and overall financial performance for the year that was.

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Handling your Debtors and Creditors in December

Proper planning of cash flow should be done to ensure that earlier release of monthly expense obligations or preloaded payments will be authorised before the office shutdown period, given that most administrative staff members will be on leave at month end in December. It is never pleasant to start the new year with overdue and unpaid accounts.

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Measuring Output Vs Input

While management may know what time should be spent on a project, there are several variables that affect the time spent on the project by staff. Variables like, rest, personal issues, time of the day, distractions, politics in the office, internet speed etc all have an impact on the time spent on completing the project.

Any manager in the service industry will tell you that it is almost impossible for staff to meet all their time budgets on their projects.

So instead of measuring the input that your team is putting into each project rather focus on the output that you expect from each team member to meet their salary costs each month.

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The Statement of Financial Position: Assets

The statement of financial position which is also known as the balance sheet, is a financial statement that reports the assets, liabilities and equity of a company at a particular date.

The statement shows what a company owns (assets), how much it owes (liabilities), and the value that would be returned to the investors if the company was liquidated (equity).

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