This month, we’ve spent a lot of time looking at ways to put more money back in your pocket or to keep more money in your pocket. Everybody wants that, right? Yes, yes, yes! Now, our newsletter was filled with some ideas, but we’ve heard from readers, friends, and clients a host of other ways.…
Here we are, in the middle of football season, and no matter if you love the sport, hate the sport, or fall somewhere in the middle, there’s no denying one thing: watch a close game from a well-coached team, and when the fourth quarter starts, you’ll see players on the sidelines holding up four fingers…
There’s a ton of information – most of it wrong – available about how your credit score is calculated and – even worse – how it is impacted by you simply being a consumer. Let’s look a few of these and try to dispel them. Your score drops if you check your own credit. This…
Much has been written about the struggles business owners face to get paid on time, and how to get clients who are dragging their feet to pay up. Clients stalling on payments, combined with unexpected expenses, can put your business in a cash flow crunch. As the owner of a small business, you probably have…
There’s about one month left in Summer 2018, plenty of time before school shopping or – Heaven forbid – Christmas – to do a little “financial cleansing”. Why? Every once in a while, it’s a good idea to stop and think about how and what you spend your paycheck on and maybe do a little…
Here we are, past the halfway mark of 2018 and guess what? If you’re like a lot of companies I’ve been talking to, you’ve spent too much already this year. Not that you’re not making it back, but the budgets you’ve allocated had some assumptions in them and because you were busy, you never got…
This month, we’ve spent a lot of time developing the ideas of entrepreneurship versus small business ownership and I wanted to ask you to play a little game with me for the next two weeks. It’s really simple and won’t take more than a few minutes each day to do. I want you to track…
If there’s one thing that we’ve learned from tax season, it’s that every year, we see first-time filers struggling with software, tax codes, and sifting through paperwork they aren’t sure they need. With the new “gig centered” economy – Uber, AirBNB, UpWork and many others, “regular” employees often are having to document income from new…
Now that we’ve made it past April 15th, accountants and business owners all over the country are breathing a collective sigh of relief. One thing we run into every year, though, that trips up new entrepreneurs, is handling and accounting for IRS From 940. It’s likely that many of the stereotypes we associate with income…
This month’s newsletter took a deep dive into the new “gig” focused economy that many “regular” wage earners are playing a role in with side jobs in companies like Uber, Lyft, and UpWork. What a lot of folks forget about – until it’s too late – is that this income is taxable and, come April…