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You’ve had numerous conversations about your ROI – the return on investment – your company achieves. But what about your RROI – the redefined reality on investment – you achieve? Think of your RROI as what’s different – new and improved – about your business and lifestyle since you started your company. If you previously worked for someone else, what’s better now that you own a business? Full Story 

We live in an electronic society. Virtually all transactions and all records are electronic. Our business and personal conversations are increasingly electronic. There is an electronic trail to almost everything. All organizations are now required to have a process to categorize, preserve, and be able to produce electronic records in litigation. Sometimes, years later. Full Story 

As the U.S. economy continued its slow march toward recovery and Europe managed to fight off the threat of a Greek default on key bond payments, even higher gas prices couldn't stop equities from powering upward. The S&P 500 registered its best first-quarter performance since 1998, the Nasdaq managed to surpass its October 2007 high, and the Russell 2000 was only 15 points from accomplishing the same thing. Full Story 

Foreign bank accounts are much more common in today’s world. Such accounts may be legally opened and used by persons at all income levels who live, work, conduct business, own real estate, study, or play abroad (not just alleged “tax cheats”) – especially in a culturally diverse state such as Wisconsin. Nevertheless, a new reporting requirement that takes effect this tax season and a number of recent local, high-profile criminal prosecutions serve as timely reminders of the high priority that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has placed on the timely and proper reporting of foreign bank accounts and assets. Full Story