subject: Small Business Survival Tip: Payroll [print this page] Small Business Survival Tip: Payroll Small Business Survival Tip: Payroll
The biggest reality for businesses today is that margins are smaller. Businesses today can't rely on a captive market' to continue on earning significant margins. Competition has been blown open, widely open. Not only will businesses have to compete with those in the same area as their businesses are located in, but technology has opened the market even to those businesses outside the area of competition.
Businesses, especially the small ones, really need to get down to basics. Those truisms taught in business schools apply more now than ever before. Think of economies of scale when producing or marketing. Think of cost-benefit when analyzing options in manufacture. Rationalize resources.
It is one of the hardest thing for a small business to do, this rationalizing resources concept. A small business owner thinks that all the expenses he makes are a step towards expanding the business. But as many large businesses have learned, it sometimes is a matter of what a business does best. Sometimes a business department gets to be so good at what it does that it makes more sense for the parent business to spin off the department into another business that will be a new source of revenue for the parent.
Such is the idea behind business support enterprises. It is necessary for small businesses to have departments' similar to that of large businesses, so that there is a smoothness to the flow of processes and procedures. Payroll can mean a significant drain on a small business, so it makes more sense to farm it out to a payroll processing service.
Providers of a payroll processing service ensure that a small business would be able to comply with all the nuances of payroll. Payroll has become complex undertaking even for a big business, requiring a lot of manpower, especially those of specialists.
Payroll processing service providers leverage economies of scale, with a number of small businesses as clients, they can attend to all the payroll issues of their clients, since they only need a small portion of their time to use their field of expertise in attending to each client's specific needs.
