In September I wrote a post about the IRS raising the standard mileage rate for the second half of 2008 by 8 cents to 58.5 cents per mile.  As an update to that post, the IRS has announced that the standard mileage rate beginning January 1, 2009 will be 55 cents a mile for business [...]

I am an accounting nerd.  I know it and I admit it.  That is why I subscribe to several e-newsletters from the IRS.  I recently received one of these newsletters that released statistics from the past few tax filing seasons.  I decided to share some of the more interesting stats (at least to me).  Take a moment to not just [...]

Let’s start with some statistics about Americans age 25 to 34 (a group to which I belong):

Between 1985 and 2005, this group saw its median debt rise by 44%.
For every dollar of assets, this group is carrying 70 cents in debt, more than double the amount carried by older age groups.
The median net worth for this group [...]

Although I am a CPA by training and with ten years of experience in public accounting I am more comfortable talking audits and taxes than I am talking employee benefits and job interviews, my position at Primum allows me to dabble in human resources too.  As such, I have attended two seminars on the topic [...]

If you have read the Primum. Get a Lot. blog, you have heard us sing the praises of social networking time and time again.  But is the message getting through?  A recent survey of HR execs by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global outplacement and business coaching consultant, shows that it might not be.
When asked “Does [...]

It is, according to respondents to a new survey of employees performed by the National University of Singapore Business School.  Cyberloafing is the non-work related use of an employee’s workplace computer.  According to the study, employees in Singapore spend about 51 minutes each day cyberloafing.
The study also showed that men (61 minutes) cyberloaf more than [...]

That sounds like a lot of money doesn’t it.  Now what if I told you it was actually a pretty good deal.  You would probably say I was crazy and would be happy that I’m not your accountant.  But as it turns out, $1,153,566 in player salaries for each Brewers win ranks as the best [...]

Many of us sit at a desk all day and the only exercise we get is pushing our computer mouse around.  That’s not exactly the healthy lifestyle that our high school health teachers were trying to tell us about. 
Fortunately, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has created a list of steps that employers [...]

If you are a baseball fan like I am, you’ve probably heard of the Red Sox and the Curse of the Bambino, the Cubs and the Curse of the Billy Goat, and the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx.  While I’m not very superstitious, and I’m not sure I believe in any of these curses, I don’t know how [...]

If you have ever purchased an item - who hasn’t, right? - you have dealt with Wisconsin Sales Tax.  It seems pretty straight forward.  You take the total cost of your purchase, multiply it by the sales tax rate, and voila, you have the amount of sales tax owed.  Well if it is so simple then [...]