If you are like millions of taxpayers trying to make a living running a small business, you know it is tough out there. Here are seven ideas to help your business survive and thrive. Understand your cash flow. One of the biggest causes of business failure is
Read more →Manual, paper-based account reconciliation is a time-intensive, grueling task. Xero’s tools make it easier and faster. There are probably few financial processes that you loathe more than manual account reconciliation. Matching transactions in the checkbook register to the printed bank statement isn’t so difficult, but the ending
Read more →Don’t let this one get out of hand A part of the Affordable Care Act is the enactment of a tax penalty if you or your family does not have qualified health insurance coverage for the entire year. The new tax penalty, called the “shared responsibility
Read more →Getting paid by your customers in a timely fashion is one of the biggest challenges of being a business owner. QuickBooks can help in several ways. You’re meeting your sales goals. Keeping inventory balanced. Making sure that every billable hour gets invoiced. Taking advantage of vendor discounts.
Read more →The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to evolve as the IRS begins to address challenges faced during the past tax season. A recent IRS announcement warns taxpayers who use the Premium Tax Credit to file their 2014 tax return immediately. Failing to do so may cause the
Read more →A multi-user accounting application needs good tools for assigning access permissions. QuickBooks Online has it covered. You trust your employees, or you wouldn’t have hired them. But you also have a grave responsibility to your customers and vendors: to keep their data safe, and to ensure
Read more →Even if you guard that critical 9-digit number carefully, you can still have a fraudulent tax return filed using it. Your first thoughts when you become the victim of a tax identity thief might go along the lines of: Did I click on a link in an
Read more →For millions of working parents the summer comes with the added challenge of finding care for their summer vacation bound kids. School hours need to be replaced with child-care hours.With summer underway, you probably now have the child-care summer gap covered. There is a good chance this
Read more →Reports are the payoff for all of your hard work entering records and transactions. They can help you make better business decisions. Now that you’ve been using QuickBooks Online for your company’s accounting, it’s probably unimaginable to think about going back to manual bookkeeping. Those file folders
Read more →It’s much more gratifying to work with incoming payments, but the money has to go out sometimes, too. Here’s an overview. Xero provides numerous ways to pay for goods and services that your company needs in Xero. How you do so depends on the type of expenditure
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