{"id":909,"date":"2012-10-10T14:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=909"},"modified":"2012-10-08T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:41:05","slug":"start-your-year-end-tasks-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/start-your-year-end-tasks-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Your Year-End Tasks Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make 2013 the year your business gets organized? Start now!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few ways to make the new year a little less cluttered;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scan your receipts and invoices<\/strong> and electronically file them by month. Some office programs even allow the electronic copy to be attached to the item.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get rid of old files no longer needed<\/strong>. Just make sure you understand how long you are required to keep old records. You may be able to scan them for space saving issues.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Businesses\/Small-Businesses-&amp;-Self-Employed\/How-long-should-I-keep-records%3F\"> IRS recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Color code physical files for quick recognition<\/strong>. Making all financial records green and customer files red, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Review your contracts<\/strong> and identify which are near end. You may be able to save money by renegotiating before it is too late.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update all staff files<\/strong>. Make sure everyone has all the correct paperwork needed for their position and tax purposes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update your procedure<\/strong>s for changes and additions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scan all the business cards<\/strong> you have collected and finally put them into a database.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Starting on the end of the year activities now can help save you time, and make your new year a little easier. Happy Organizing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make 2013 the year your business gets organized? Start now! Here are a few ways to make the new year a little less cluttered; Scan your receipts and invoices and electronically file them by month. Some office programs even allow the electronic copy to be attached to the item. Get rid of old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-improvement","category-goals","category-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}