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| Smart Business Tax Planning for an Obama Presidency Whether or not you agree with Barack Obama, if you're a successful business owner, you need to plan now to minimize the tax increases an Obama administration seems sure to implement. Why? A bit of upfront planning could easily save you tens of... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
| Starting Your Business on a Budget Starting a new entrepreneurial venture, even a tiny one, requires money. You need working capital just to operate, of course. And you may need capital for fixtures, equipment and machinery. Not surprisingly, then, finding this startup cash becomes... ( added 17 days 3 hours ago.) |
| Starting a Business in a Bad Economy Starting a small business requires gumption and guts. The decision demands that the entrepreneur to show courage, think clearly and assume risks. Starting a business in a recession requires double doses of courage, clear thinking and risk taking.... ( added 19 days ago.) |
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| How to Write a Business Plan in a Recession Business planning in a recession sucks. That much is obvious. What maybe isn't so obvious is this: The business planning process also works differently during a recession. One needs to go to extra work and effort to avoid certain types of errors... ( added 24 days 2 hours ago.) |
| How Not to Write a Business Plan I stumbled onto an online donnybrook at one of those entrepreneurs' online discussion boards yesterday. And I just had to smile. People were going just nuts about whether a business plan is needed, what a business plan even is, who should write... ( added 25 days 13 hours ago.) |
| CPA Reasons You Shouldn't Extend Your Tax Return Extend your tax return to October 15th and you've got good company. Roughly forty percent of taxpayers extend their tax returns. (Anyone can extend by completing the very simple, 4868 form, which is available from the www.irs.gov web site.) But in... ( added 46 days 18 hours ago.) |
| Embarassing Business Bookkeeping Blunders As the end of year approaches, many small business CPAs and bookkeepers find their stress levels rising. In only a few short weeks, these accountants know they'll see silly bookkeeping errors in many of their small business clients' books--errors... ( added 46 days 18 hours ago.) |
| CPA Tips for Simpler Small Business Bookkeeping If you operate a small business, you know that you need a decent, working accounting system, right? Decent accounting and bookkeeping means you know whether or not you're making a profit. And such a system lets you make better decisions about the... ( added 79 days 13 hours ago.) |
| Using S Corporations for Real Estate Investment Some accountants like to say there's an eleventh commandment, "Thou shall not hold real estate inside a corporation." And, in general, this rule holds true. Inside a corporation, real estate loses many of its tax benefits. In a handful of cases... ( added 82 days 7 hours ago.) |
| CPA Tips for Firing a Financial Planner Have you tired of paying thousands of dollars a year for run-of-the-mill financial planning and investment advice? You should consider employing a do-it-yourself approach to financial planning. By following a handful of steps, you can actually... ( added 88 days 4 hours ago.) |
| Professional's Guide to Business Incorporation Incorporation offers small businesses and their owners a slick way to reduce both legal liability and income taxes. But the rules for incorporating a professional practice can be tricky. Fortunately, one can make incorporating a profession easier... ( added 93 days 6 hours ago.) |
| Five Tips for Picking a CPA for your New Business Are you beginning a new entrepreneurial venture? Or are you a business owner who needs to find a better accountant? Choosing a CPA is easier when you employ the five following tips: Determine Whether You'll Outsource Your Bookkeeping Some... ( added 105 days 5 hours ago.) |
| A CPA's Accounting & Tax Tips for New Small Businesses Starting a new entrepreneurial venture? As you may already know, you have all sorts of ways that you can complicate your taxes and bookkeeping. But if you want to keep your finances lean, clean and low-cost, consider five easy tips: Accounting Tip... ( added 111 days 23 hours ago.) |
| The Successful C Corporation Owner's Tax Blunder Business owners often assume that a traditional corporation, or "C corporation," provides a good platform for saving money and growing wealth. As a result, these individuals do their investing inside their C corporations. Superficially, this... ( added 115 days 6 hours ago.) |
| Seven Helpful Tips for Incorporating in Nevada Considering Nevada incorporation for your new business or venture? You'll probably want to ponder the following seven tips to ease and expedite the process. Tip #1: Don't choose Nevada unless you operate in Nevada Let's get this first tip out of... ( added 124 days 23 hours ago.) |
| Tips for Florida Incorporation New small business owners often want to consider the incorporation option. And that's logical. Incorporating a small business usually reduces the business owners legal liability. And incorporating also often saves the business owner and any... ( added 127 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Skip These Business Incorporation Scams Incorporating a small business often makes good legal and accounting sense. Without question. But new entrepreneurs need to know that a handful of incorporation scams often ensnare small businesses. And that is truly unfortunate. Getting entangled... ( added 134 days 3 hours ago.) |
| Protecting Your Business with a Limited Liability Company Business owners and investors often worry about protecting assets from creditors and lawsuits. Of course, sometimes, people worry too much. And careful management of a business or investment coupled with up-to-date liability insurance policies may... ( added 141 days 21 hours ago.) |
| Paying the Shareholders of a Limited Liability Corporation One of the more common questions that new limited liability company owners (or their bookkeepers) have concerns how to pay the owners for their work. Are amounts paid to the owner wages? A draw on profits? Something else? Limited liability... ( added 146 days 6 hours ago.) |
| Can Your Business Operate as an S Corporation? Almost four million small businesses have elected to be treated as S corporations for tax accounting purposes. And for simple reasons. An S corporation doesn't pay corporate income taxes. And an S corporation often saves shareholder-employees... ( added 147 days 10 hours ago.) |
| Naming the New Limited Liability Company Business Starting a new business as an LLC, or limited liability company? Predictably, you want to identify a great name. Unfortunately, the process is trickier than you might realize in today's business environment. You've got legal, marketing and even... ( added 154 days 4 hours ago.) |
| Starting Up Microsoft's Small Business Accounting Software for an Limited Liability Company If you own and operate a limited liability corporation, you may already know that setting up Microsoft's Small Business Accounting software can be sort of confusing in your situation. But,good news, you can employ some accounting tips and tricks... ( added 155 days 9 hours ago.) |
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| How to Set Up QuickBooks for a Limited Liability Company Starting up business as a limited liability company or LLC? As you might guess, installing the QuickBooks accounting program correctly in an LLC situation can be tricky. Why? The tax accounting flexibility that the LLC option provides. Fortunately... ( added 161 days 7 hours ago.) |
| When C Corporations Save Your Business Taxes Small businesses often save taxes by operating as a sole proprietorship, partnership or S corporation--or operating as a limited liability company taxed as a sole proprietorship, partnership or S corporation. However, even though C corporations... ( added 166 days 13 hours ago.) |
| When You Should Not Incorporate a Business Incorporating a small business sometimes delivers big benefits. Liability always gets limited at least a little bit. And often times, incorporating means the business reduces its income taxes or the payroll taxes or both. But incorporating creates... ( added 173 days 6 hours ago.) |
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