Field Guides
A document only works if it records the right thing. These pieces cover the rules that decide what the right thing is: how federal overtime is counted, what California adds on top, how long each record has to survive, and which of the three transaction documents you owe the other party. One of them is our own analysis of what people are searching for.
Start With the Question
Each guide exists to answer one question that comes up before or after a document gets printed. Find yours here rather than reading down the list.
| Why is so much small-business paperwork still done by hand? | Read it → |
| Do 45 hours one week and 35 the next owe any overtime? | Read it → |
| When does overtime start in California? | Read it → |
| How long do I have to keep this document? | Read it → |
| Which of the three transaction documents do I owe right now? | Read it → |
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We pulled and clustered thousands of real U.S. search queries for business documents. The result maps an economy of paperwork that accounting software never absorbed, and explains who is still doing admin by hand.
45 hours one week and 35 the next is five hours of overtime, even though it averages to 40. The FLSA computes overtime per workweek, and most biweekly timesheets silently break the rule. With the DOL's own worked example.
Five overtime triggers instead of the federal one: time and a half after 8 hours in a day, double time after 12, and the seventh-day rules. With a worked example showing a 38-hour week that still owes overtime.
Every retention rule is an audit window in disguise. The federal minimums in one table (3 years, 6 in edge cases, 4 for employment tax, 2 for timecards), with the statute behind each and the one-line policy that satisfies them all.
The PO authorizes, the invoice demands, the receipt proves. Three documents, three jobs, one paper trail, and a plain-language walkthrough of which one you owe the other party at each step of a transaction.
After the Reading
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