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Incentive To Be Green When you have a goal in mind, visible improvement is a great incentive to keep going. So, here’s some great news about green initiatives. The earth is getting greener. There is five percent more foliage than 20 years ago, as a direct result of human influence. This insight was made possible…

It was a Bright and Sunny Day Every Thursday, at precisely three thirty in the afternoon, a uniformed man walks past my office door pulling an empty, locked shred collection bin behind him to the copy room. A minute later, he walks past my office again, pulling the full container that had been sitting in…

Origin of the Motorized Shredder The first machine-run shredder was created by Adolf Ehinger in 1935. Ehinger was printing anti-Nazi materials and realized he needed a means of disposing of them to protect himself from being identified. Inspired by a hand-cranked pasta maker, he created a hand-cranked paper shredder, later adding a motor to drive…

August 14th is National Financial Awareness Day You likely had no idea that this day existed. The purpose of it is to help Americans take note of their finances and know more about how to create and maintain a healthy, balanced, and sustainable financial life by making informed decisions with their existing resources. One often-overlooked…

I Prefer to Do It Myself I’m the type of person who will not call a repair person or any kind of reno company unless it is either beyond my skills or I’ve started something I can’t finish. I am not paying for someone to do something I can do myself or look up on…

Take the Test Do you have an area in your business facility that stores replaced, out-of-date, or damaged hard drives of any kind because you’re unsure of what to do with them? Do you have extra, unused USB drives that are collecting dust? Do you have discarded company cell phones, fax machines, tablets, PDAs, PCs,…

“The Camping Trip” Blaze: (unloading boxes from the trunk) This is going to be the best camping weekend we’ve ever had. When are the rest of the guys getting here? Pete: In about an hour. You know we’re just here for the weekend, right? You didn’t need to bring that much wood. Blaze: Pete my…

POV: Medical Practice Office Manager We have a local college student doing her medical administrative placement with us. She is absolutely wonderful. She is motivated, inquisitive, teachable and a quick learner. One of her most recent learning experiences occurred when I saw her tearing up medical documents she had just printed and was tossing them…

One day I was sorting through the mail when I noticed that one envelope was from the shredding company that regularly destroys all our documents. I’ve just recently started working here, so when I pulled out a document that had “Certificate of Destruction” written across the top of it, I was intrigued but confused. What…

Business mentor and author, Jana Kingsford, said, “Balance is not something you find. It’s something you create.” Balance helps to keep you and everything you do in equilibrium. I would imagine that, as an accountant, understanding the necessity and value of balance comes easier because balance is everything in your job. The books must always…

The Canopy Project™ is an initiative of EarthDay.org™ and improves our shared environment by planting trees across the globe. Since 2010, they have planted tens of millions of trees worldwide. What a fantastic way to strengthen communities! And do you know what works hand-in-hand with planting trees? Responsible and secure paper shredding to make the…

What are you doing with your personal receipts, past bank statements, tax records, and medical documents? If you’re throwing them into the garbage or recycling bin, you have dramatically increased your likelihood of having your identity stolen, bank accounts compromised, and credit cards hijacked. You are placing your personal information in the most ideal location…