Reduce Verizon Costs – Bring Savings to Light
Verizon Costs Too High? Reduce Verizon Costs today with a telecommunications audit. Telecom audits also find savings with AT&T, Sprint, Qwest, and other telecommunication carriers 80% of the time. Your IT department is focused on mission critical issues – and taking the time to do a deep-dive audit of the myriad possible
Enterprise Zone Tax Credits
Enterprise Zone Tax Credits are easily misunderstood and lost. "Tom" is an employer who lost $200,000 in California enterprise zone credits because of bad information. For the longest time, the redevelopment people told Tom he was outside the eligible zone. They even convinced his CPA that Tom was not eligible. The CPA convinced
CAM Refunds from CAM Audits
CAM refunds CAM refunds are very common for companies with large lease expense. CAM (Common Area Maintenance) reconciliation statements that you get each year are impossible to keep free of errors and the errors are so subtle as to be undetectable. Because a multi-page lease agreement allows for miscalculations and mistakes in
Print Expense | Meet the Press Costing You $$$
Print Expense. It's a phantom expense in most companies with printed material in all forms forming 3% to 5% of non-payroll spend and over 20% of marketing costs. You can save money on print costs and DCI can show you how much. The goal of any good print analysis is to save money so your marketing dollars go farther and give you
Tax Refunds: Check’s in the mail.
Tax Refunds are generated in multiple ways when DCI does its multi-state tax credit review. For one multi-state dairy, a multi-state tax credit review, combined with an apportionment study produced sizable tax refunds. Although your accountants are strong assets, they are not you only asset. These days, you need every possible
AP Audits – The Error-Free Era
AP Audits give You Critical Visibility into 28 Types of Vendor Payment Errors Number of Errors Total Dollars Overpaid Reason for Error 12 $12,505.18 1-Vendor setup twice within the same AP System. 5 $5,493.25 2-Two different vendor locations. 21 $9,277.20 3-Wrong
Reduce Waste Costs | Keeping Waste Dollars vs. Keep Wasting Dollars
Reduce waste costs and you will be keeping waste dollars. The alternative, to keep wasting dollars, is not intentionally made but most of the time it happens because business leaders don't tend to think about trash. A serious audit looks at the bill and then audits the site for simple changes that take little thought but result in
LTL Freight Expense | 20% – 40% reduction
Cut LTL freight expense quickly and without changing vendors using DCI's LTL freight expense analysis. DCI cuts LTL freight expense for almost every client - a 20% to 40% reduction without changing vendors is often possible if the tariff analysis is done correctly. We reverse engineer your tariff and show you what your LTL freight
Bonus Depreciation and Tax
New lighting retrofits do NOT qualify for bonus depreciation, are you at risk? Many companies take their new lighting retrofits as bonus depreciation; in 2011 that meant taking the entire cost as one year’s depreciation. However doing so is a mistake and a misinterpretation of the rules. The rules for “bonus depreciation”
Reduce ADP Costs | Payroll Processing Fees Cut!
Reduce ADP costs. Payroll processing fees from ADP, Ceridian, and Paychex can be analyzed and reduced! Not only can you reduce payroll processing fees and stay with your vendor (ADP or Ceridian or Paychex or) you can do it with little time and stress - by using DCI Solutions bench-marking and negotiating. In a recent survey just 6%
Sales Tax Refunds
Do you see what's wrong with this utility bill? Sales tax. Most companies must pay sales tax on their energy consumption, but not all companies. In certain cases a company can reduce or even eliminate all the sales tax it pays on its utility consumption. Could you be owed a sales tax refund and not know it? Each state has its
Cut Health Care Costs | 8 Ways to First
Cut Health Care Costs! This goal is reachable and there are 8 ways to get there without cutting benefits - just like there are 8 ways to get to first in baseball without getting a base hit. Do you know all eight? Let's review and then check the answer key at the bottom if you want the answers to your baseball quiz as well. 1. Tax
Reduce Bank Fees | Cut B of A and Wells Fargo Charges
Let's reduce bank fees. The past couple years have been tough on every bank's profitability. In response, major banks are trying to make up for lost revenue by coming up with new fees to charge clients. In fact, some of the biggest banks have already begun to do so. Yet from a client perspective, there is something amiss with this
The Speed of Business
"Astounding Speed" is when you steal home - 27 times. - Just four speedsters have achieved this. Just four factors create astounding speed in business cost reduction - can you list those, too? Let’s review. Factor #1 Objectivity: All your company's employees - including you- lost something the day they were hired - objectivity.
Business License Tax
The Business License Tax in Los Angeles is 1% of gross receipts. You may be owed a reduction or even a refund, especially if you can demonstrate that portions of your company income were earned in adjoining cities (Hollywood, Santa Monica) or in different cities where your company has other offices (ex. many law firms have
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