by | Jan 10, 2018 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Cash Flow, Income Taxes, Personal financial planning, Small Business Owners
It is never too early to start organizing for tax time. If you have a desk, box or simply a folder full of receipts and tax forms, you can develop easy organizational practices or habits to make your life easier and to help your accountant when you actually go to...
by | Jan 8, 2018 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Cash Flow, Cost Cutting, Current Affairs, Income Taxes
Most New Year’s Resolutions fail by the time February and March approach, if not sooner. If you were to ask all of your friends about their New Year's Resolutions, you would probably find that three seem to occur more often than anything else. You may have already...
by | Jan 3, 2018 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Cost Cutting, Current Affairs, Income Taxes, Personal financial planning
While going back to school is an investment in your future or the future of your children, it isn't always an easy option when it comes to your finances. The good news is that there are some tax breaks that students attending college or university can claim. These...
by | Jan 1, 2018 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Cash Flow, Current Affairs, Income Taxes
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 for 2018. However, you may also find that at the end of the month there never seems to be any extra money to add to...
by | Dec 27, 2017 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Cash Flow, Income Taxes, Personal financial planning, Small Business Owners
In my 30+ years working with small business owners, I have found there are two main reasons that a business ends up struggling to survive. The first is a failure to understand that everything the owner hates or is going wrong in their business, they...
by | Dec 25, 2017 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Cash Flow, Cost Cutting, Income Taxes, Personal financial planning, Small Business Owners
Forming a working relationship with your accountant, either as a business owner or as an individual who wants to take control of your financial future, is perhaps one of the most important partnerships you can build. Unfortunately, a lot of people fail to do this and...