What You Need to Know to Be a Tax Preparer
While some jobs come and go, tax preparation is one that’s here to stay. Since everyone has to pay taxes, tax preparers will always be in high demand. Not to mention, tax law can get a little confusing for the average person. That’s why more than half of Americans hire a professional tax preparer to…
Read MoreWhat is Liability Insurance for Bookkeepers?
As a bookkeeper, whether you own a bookkeeping business or offer your services as a freelancer, you’re someone who provides an essential and professional service for other individuals and businesses. The work you do to prepare and maintain others’ records goes a long way toward ensuring their security and prosperity. Any one individual’s or business’s…
Read MoreInside the Hacker’s Mind – Social Engineering
Inside the Hacker’s Mind – Social Engineering Dr Jack Wadey What is it? Social engineering is a method employed by bad actors or “hackers” to manipulate or deceive individuals to share personal or confidential information. A social engineering attack does not necessarily have to include computers. Have you ever held a door open into the…
Read MoreShould Your Company Work From Home During the Coronavirus Outbreak
In this new, cloudy age of quarantine, people wake up, shower, and commute to the kitchen table. Spouses and children (and pets) have become coworkers and coworkers have become penpals. Thanks to COVID-19, companies have been forced to make decisions fast about whether to institute work-from-home policies. Unless your line of work relies on hands-on…
Read MoreWhat Does Professional Liability Insurance Cover?
Some people endure a setback and immediately look for someone to blame. And if you’re a physician, attorney, accountant, real estate broker or anyone who served as a consultant to such a person, they’re likely to point the first finger at you, and perhaps even file a lawsuit against you. That’s where professional liability insurance…
Read MorePotential Small Business Risks
In some ways, owning a business is like being a parent. There’s the joy of training your employees to perform in ways that help your business flourish. But there’s a distinct downside, namely that opening any business is flooded with managing risk, specifically liability risks. In the same way that parents end up having to…
Read MoreBenefits of Professional Liability Insurance
If you’re in a service business, you work with customers on a constant basis. While you want to provide the very best possible service, guaranteeing it is an impossible feat; no matter how much you plan, there will inevitably be human errors, mistakes, or slip-ups that occur in the line of duty. While the vast…
Read MoreCyber Insurance 101: Why You Need It
Your business is a ship. A fine, sea-hardened vessel with a hard-won reputation for providing safe passage to all aboard and timely delivery of cargo. Pre-digital revolution your greatest worry? Weather and piracy. Now, in this day and age, cyberattacks on your, your employees’ and your clients’ sensitive data are like an infestation of plague…
Read MoreErrors and Omissions Coverage: What Is It & How Does it Work?
Each and every project or professional relationship begins with a vision of perfection and mutually beneficial symbiotic bliss by both client and provider. However, then realities set in. Hardships arise and, more often than not, both parties are happy if the resulting product even comes close to the dream imagined at the start. Errors and…
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