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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New PTIN System Set in Motion by IRS – On Tuesday, the IRS officially implemented its new Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN) system. From now on, all tax preparers will have to be issued PTIN (even if they already have one) in order to be qualified to prepare and submit tax returns for their clients [...]
There comes a time in every small business owner’s life when they start thinking about moving payroll from their living room computer into the hands of a hired professional. Shopping for a payroll professional, as well as anything else, requires a little research. Having just moved my company largely online with on line everything (including [...]
The IRS has been making changes to the Electronic Filing Mandate that originated in H.R. 3548 as predicted when it first came out. At this point in time they are saying for this next tax season they “anticipate” asking requiring preparers who do 100 or more returns to file electronically and then lower that threshold [...]
Earlier this past week I noticed a post(1) from a blogging colleague. I mention this as although his said intentions were set and designed to inform taxpayers, I found not only a few things wrong with the post, but also felt like the post was an attack. The attack was not to just a [...]
by Nick Hodges The Internet super-highway opens up marvelous opportunities for you to harvest tax advice and information from some of the greatest minds at reasonable prices from anywhere in the world. But it also emphasizes a crucial question: How do you know whom to trust? Sharing your intimate, personal financial information with a [...]
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