If you believe every commercial you see on TV, you can run a wildly successful small business out of your garage. You can do all the work without help, and you can become an overnight success. All you have to do is download the right bookkeeping app on your...
When you go into business, you expect to do more than your share of the work. That’s what business owners do to get their operations up and running. When you're cutting back on expenses, it makes sense to perform the tasks you already know how to do. It probably won't...
As the owner of a small to medium-sized business, you learn that consistency is essential to keeping your business moving forward. You set your goals. You open up on time every day. To top it off you respond when the phone rings, and you greet your customers and...
If you’ve made the giant leap from paper to digital, you probably still have paper bookkeeping documents everywhere. If you’re like many businesses trying to make a digital transition, you still have file cabinets full of bookkeeping papers and other stacks of paper...
As a business owner, you've had a long, challenging year. Until you get through the 2021 tax season, it's not quite over yet. If you're like many businesses, your 2020 was all about lockdowns, layoffs, financial difficulties, reopening, sanitizing, and other...
Of course, you haven’t had time to think about the Taxpayer First Act. If you’re like most business owners, you’ve been busy trying to make sure your business stays up and running. The good news is that the TFA didn’t include any sweeping economic changes like the Tax...
If you work at home or you were one of many business owners to run your business from home during the pandemic, you’re probably counting on a home-office tax break next January. It probably won’t work out that way. Changes implemented by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
As a business owner, you’ve endured your share of economic upheaval over the past months. In late March, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid Relief & Economic Security Act to provide emergency financial relief. Complying with CARES Act requirements has been...
If you received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, you probably didn’t need help with PPP compliance. The program was a Cares Act provision. The application process was designed to respond as quickly as possible. You didn’t have to provide collateral or personal...
If you’ve always run your business on a cash-only basis, now is a good time to rethink your options. Like all local business owners, you’ve probably been working through some pretty tough times. If you’re up and running, that means you’ve made the necessary changes to...