In Small Independent Businesses: Women Are Like Cats—Men Are Like Dogs

By Ted Carlson

Many years ago, I built houses and light-manufacturing buildings. When I got an audit letter from the Department of Labor, I asked my accountant why he did not tell me about compliance reporting. He said it was not his job. That advice cost me five thousand dollars. The sad part is that I could have appealed and gotten the penalties reduced by half. I just did not know how. Now you can use what I learned in your small family business and replace your bookkeeper and avoid audits.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524599867

Ted Carlson

Ted Carlson is a certified fraud examiner with Liberty Bay Consultants specializing in workers’ compensation external audits and compliance programs. He worked six years with the Labor and Industries Workers’ Compensation Department in Washington as a field auditor and trained field auditors and managers in business industry methods of operations.

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IN SMALL INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES,

WOMEN ARE LIKE CATS—MEN ARE LIKE DOGS

A Guide to Simplify, Capture, and Compile the Small-Business Reports to States and Workers’ Compensation Insurance Companies Using Work Hours and Rates of Pay for Calculations in Washington, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont

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TED CARLSON, BBA, ADP, CFE

Copyright © 2017 by Ted Carlson, CFE. 755899

ISBN:       EBook       978-1-5245-9986-7

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 03/23/2017

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DEDICATION

This resource guide is dedicated to all the small independent businesses, building contractors, and specialty manufacturers who have to be responsible for compliance reporting to avoid predatory audits. Bookkeepers and accountants are not going to pay for any assessments. You are.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Dogfight

Catfight

How Cat and Dog Employers Get in Trouble with Record Keeping

Top-Down Self-Auditing

Assault on the Dog’s Independent Contractors

Are Cats Being Overcharged?

Annual Examinations

Free Compliance Programs That Work for Cats

Benefits of Using Compliance Software on the Cloud