by | Apr 14, 2017 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Books, Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Cash Flow, Cost Cutting, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
For 35+ years I have worked with small business owners and watched them. This has allowed me to learn many things that worked and a whole bunch of things that don’t. This is my 20th year running my own CPA firm and I have to confess I have repeated many of the...
by | Apr 3, 2017 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Cost Cutting, Current Affairs, Income Taxes, Personal financial planning, Small Business Owners
Over the years I have spoken to literally hundreds of business owners who have had problems with their bookkeepers. The lucky ones only had incompetent or lazy bookkeepers who only provided financial statements that were so wrong that they were useless as a management...
by | Mar 27, 2017 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Cost Cutting, Current Affairs, Small Business Owners
With the economy and the dynamics of the work world in flux—and the increasing need by many people to get closer to their families, many are opting to start home businesses that will enable them to make a good living while connecting more closely with day-to-day...
by | Mar 22, 2017 | Business Success Series, Cost Cutting, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners
One of the big advantages a CPA has working with small business owners is that we get to learn what makes them profitable and what makes them fail – without losing any of our own funds. On top of that, we too are business owners who face many of the same kinds of...
by | Jan 25, 2017 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Client Question of the Week, Cost Cutting, Income Taxes, Small Business Owners
After all this time it still amazes me that business owners don’t understand the importance of having good records. As often as I have run into it over the last 30+ years, it shouldn’t anymore. They usually hire a bookkeeper and a CPA to do their taxes and then forget...
by | Jan 23, 2017 | Cash Flow, Cost Cutting, Personal financial planning
If you are like most people, you have a lot of very good and very well-intended ideas about maximizing your savings and building up an emergency fund. However, you may also find that at the end of the month there never seems to be any extra money to add to the...
