by | Jan 15, 2014 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
What Is a Profit-Building Machine? Fundamentally, every business is a system: a set of processes that, working together, reliably produce an intended result. Every business has four main systems: Sales and marketing Production and delivery of the product...
by | Jan 14, 2014 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
I’m a big fan of the Discovery Channel show “How It’s Made”. Since 2001, it has been revealing how everyday items such as bubblegum, engines, guitars, baseballs, and snowboards are manufactured. I am fascinated by the number of steps that must be...
by | Jan 9, 2014 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
One of the big advantages CPAs have 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. Not only that, but we are also business owners. We face many of the...
by | Nov 20, 2013 | Income Taxes, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
3 Steps Guaranteed to Slash Your 2013 Taxes (and Why Your Tax Preparer Is Probably Not Helping You Cut Your Taxes) By Wayne J. Belisle, CPA I’ve had my own business since 1991, and I passed the CPA exam way back in the late 70s. I’ve been...
by | Nov 15, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
The IRS requires that business owners keep mountains of paperwork to prove our deductions. One of the hardest things for business owners to do is keep copies of all the receipts we accumulate throughout our busy day and give them to bookkeeping. ...
by | Nov 12, 2013 | Current Affairs, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Employers still face an October 1st deadline to make sure all employees are given informational notices about the new health benefit exchanges which are scheduled to be online the same day. There are really two notices: The first is a form to be used by employers who...
