Starting out in your first small business can be an exciting and rewarding journey. As many seasoned small business operators know, the multi-faceted role of a small business [...]
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This is a guest article written by Michael Dolen, the president of Credit Card Forum. During this time every year, I always get asked by a good number of visitors on my site [...]
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The Subprime Mortgage Crisis that brought the global economy to the brink of disaster in the fall of 2008 has led to millions of foreclosures over the last 3 years. Due to t [...]
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QuickBooks Tip: Unless and until your business is swimming in cash, there will come a time that you have to make a big purchase and *gasp* get a loan. The horror. So now tha [...]
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QuickBooks Tip: Admit it. Bouncing a check is annoying and embarrassing. The bank charges a fee for every bounce, you rack up the fees and you have to tell people when to [...]
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It’s such an easy thing to do and yet our pride steps in and makes asking a simple question seem like lifting a 2 ton brick. Can you help me? I love when people ask me for he [...]
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At this point we have completed the initial review of the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss statements in QuickBooks. So now it is a matter of double checking things from a d [...]
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- Balance Sheet and P&L Now that you have allowed yourself the time, you can take your time reviewing your Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, and even your Statement Of Cash [...]
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The biggest problem we all face when it comes to QuickBooks and tax planning is waiting until the last minute. There are so many obvious reasons why it is better to do it e [...]
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E~file Your 2011 Tax Return: How to E~file Your Taxes Tax season is upon us. This means that you are either preparing a tax return by yourself or hiring a tax preparer to do [...]
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E~file Your 2011 Tax Return: How to E~file Your Taxes Tax season is upon us. This means that you are either preparing a tax return by yourself or hiring a tax preparer to do it for you. For years you may have prepared and filed your returns on paper, the traditional method. You may have [...]
. . . it’s tax time! This year, do you want your refund faster? Have it deposited directly into your bank account. More taxpayers are choosing direct deposit as the way to receive their federal tax refunds. More than 61 million people had their tax refunds deposited directly into their bank accounts last year. It’s [...]
THE NEW E-FILE MANDATE – “. . . An individual or couple may engage a tax professional, such as me, to prepare the federal income tax return that he/she/they is/are required to file. While, as is the case with just about every situation where a person or company provides goods or services for compensation, the [...]
Today I received notices from my local IRS Sr. Stakeholder Liaison. In his bulletin I found attached three documents/fliers on different things. The two that bother me are bulleted below. Preparer e-File Mandate: Paid tax return preparers that prepare 100 or more individual or trust returns in 2011 will be required to e-file. That number [...]
Get Your Refund Faster – Choose Direct Deposit If you want to get your refund as quickly as possible, just tell the IRS to deposit your refund directly into your bank account. By choosing Direct Deposit, you can get your refund much sooner than if you chose to have a paper check mailed to you. [...]
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