The best Christmas present for your accountant is organized records. Follow these simple steps and you’ll feel the love all the way through 2019. Use Quickbooks to help: Reconcile your bank and credit card accounts up to December 31, 2018. Print the reconciliations...
Advertising is communicating with customers in an attempt to influence their buying behavior by conveying a persuasive message about your products or services. Although we may not recognize it, businesses around the world use every media outlet possible to advertise...
Exit Planning – It might not be what you think There’s a sign outside our office that lets the public know that our Firm assists in exit planning. Unfortunately it seems that a lot of people think this is a plan to exit the world of the living. Not so. A good...
For businesses that are preparing year-end payroll and information returns from Quickbooks, the following tips are helpful in order to avoid the most common mistakes: Budget ample time and set aside uninterrupted time to prepare year-end tax forms such as W-2s, W-3,...
Periodically we will highlight a ratio or benchmark and demonstrate how you can use it to better understand your business The disclaimer: Benchmarks and ratios, blindly applied, can be dangerous. Benchmarks can be useful in understanding areas to investigate, but it’s...
One of the most important aspects of maintaining a healthy business is ensuring that the business has strong cash flows. The cash conversion cycle (CCC) is the time span between a business disbursing and receiving cash. The cycle can begin in a variety of ways...
