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10 Questions To Ask Your CPA

If you are hiring an accounting or tax and business firm, it should go without saying that you have a CPA involved in looking over all of the work. However, not all accounting firms are created e…

Is Hiring a CPA Worth it? 5 Tips for Getting Your Money’s Worth

Often when people find out I’m a tax accountant, I get asked, “How much does a CPA cost?” It’s like me asking “How much does a home cost?” We all understand that a 1,000 square-foot home in Kansas has a different cost than a 1,000 square-foot penthouse condo in New...

Annual Meeting Minutes Can Save You During an Audit or Lawsuit

“Why does the IRS care about my minutes?” Stephanie asked. She was a new consultation and we were coming into an IRS inquiry rather late in the game. She had received a letter from the IRS and had immediately called the name on the form. It took several hours of waiting, but she finally got […]

How to View Transaction Changes in Quickbooks Using Audit History

As a business owner, it’s important that you monitor your business’s financial transactions on a regular basis. If you don’t know where your money is going, or where it’s coming from, you won’t be able to optimize your business’s operations to achieve the highest possible profits. Using Quickbooks, however, you can easy view transaction changes using the accounting software’s Audit HistoryWhat Is Audit HistoryAudit…

Tax Deductions You Won't Believe

Here are some examples of deductions from the IRS that were permitted and some that were, uh, too creative.

Here’s why your tax return may be flagged by the IRS

There are several reasons why your tax return may get flagged or audited by the IRS. Here’s how to avoid IRS scrutiny and processing delays.

Private tour guide can be a business traveler's best friend

While planning a trip to London in 2010, I worked with a travel planner for the first time. And she suggested something odd. Or at least I thought it was odd at the time.

3 Strategies for Increasing Cleaning Business Profit Margin

Unless you’re running a charity, your primary objective as a cleaning business owner is profitability. Without it, your company will not survive. It’s no surprise that one of the questions we get most often from BSCs is, how do I increase my profit margin?- There are three basic strategies for increasing profit margin for your cleaning business: lower your costs, sell more services, and/or raise prices.

SIZE DOES MATTER: the next BIG thing is SMALL group travel

Bigger is not always better when it comes to group travel, a smaller group means you can see more, learn more and travel further. The key to making sure a group tour feels special is to keep the numbers down. A small group means you can stay in boutique accommodation, get to more remote areas …

Remember Older Persons Action Group when filing for your PFD

You may file for your 2016 Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend today. If you choose, you can designate a portion of your PFD to support non-profit organizations in Alaska who are eligible for the Pick.Click.Give. program. This year, Older Persons Action Group is eligible and will appreciate all Pick.Click.Give. donations, which will help us continue our...

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Boulder-area oral surgeons see success with new nonopioid strategies

Boulder and Lafayette oral surgeons who started using a new a strategy to sedate and treat pain in patients to reduce their use of opioids say it has been successful so far.

Playmobil has been updated in the STN database!

Playmobil is a proud partner of Specialty Toys Network (STN) and works hard to provide their retailers with the best information and images for promoting their products.

Boost Retention with These Strategies l Kinsa Group

The Kinsa Group, one of America’s top food and beverage executive recruiting firms, provides strategies for boosting retention.

10 Small Group Strategy Assumptions

Identifying the right question is a critical skill. And that caused me to reflect on my small group strategy assumptions.

Should Your CX Strategies Differ Between Age Groups?

You might have a killer CX strategy, but will it affect all generations the same? Probably not. Learn how to branch the CX gap and speak to all age groups.

Adventures in Non-Profit Logo Design

Non-profits have a different style of communicating. Their language of compelling donations and recruiting volunteers is vastly different from the language of metrics and hard numbers spoken by advertising.