Effective Records Retention Practices for Businesses
By Paul Ursich
Remember how things used to be? You’d carefully store all business contracts, insurance policies, tax records, purchase orders, invoices, banking statements and correspondence with vendors, customers and prospects. When your filing cabinets filled to capacity you’d buy more, move boxes of paperwork to a lonely storeroom or make a U-Haul delivery to off-site storage, never to be seen again.
Things are better in the electronic age—supposedly. Now you can fill hard drives...