As the year winds down, it’s time for small businesses to wrap up the end-of-year tasks and prepare for tax season. While many important reports and documentation won’t be ready until the actual end of the year, you should start planning now. If your business uses a good document management system, your year-end work should go smoothly and your tax preparation team will love how easy you make filing your taxes for them. Be sure you have your accounting ducks in a row with the following checklist.

Demographically, the oldest Millennial (a.k.a. Gen Y) is 36 this year. The youngest is about 20. These are the adults for whom digital technology is a given, not the dream-under-construction as it was for Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers at the same life stage. At 35, this group is of the age and level of prosperity to now take over the department management reins as the Boomers age out and the Xers step off the elevator into the C suite.

The move toward paperless offices has made document management that much more important, and Millennials are often the ones driving that business decision. You might be surprised to find that far from dismissing print, Millennials tend to print as much or more than individuals age 36 and up. While these digital natives are a very mobile-centric demographic, they still tend to enjoy the printed page, even going so far as to print documents from home.

Strong partnerships are what make businesses thrive and continue to grow year after year, and when partners go out of their way to recognize your excellent work, that’s the kind of good news that you want to share with the world. At EDGE Business Systems, we are delighted to announce that we are once again Xerox’s Partner of the Year for Document Management Solutions.

Today, businesses find themselves standing at a crossroads facing a critical decision. With some markets shrinking and others exploding, change is in the air. One constant element within every business, no matter how small or how large, how old or how new, is document management. With efficient systems in place, a constricting market can be endured until economic activity rebounds, but with old, paper-laden structures, growing businesses can’t make the most of a bountiful business uptick.