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March 11th, 2013 - 5:59 am § in business start up, General Info, Off Topic

Guest Post: Check Fraud

The Best Ways to Stop Check Fraud   Check fraud can affect everyone, no matter how careful and diligent. Both companies and individuals can become the victims of such schemes. There are several precautionary measures that can be undertaken to minimize the check fraud risk. Do you know what chec[...]

February 19th, 2013 - 7:15 pm § in General Info, Off Topic, Taxes

SCAM Alerts

Have you received any emails lately about your federal or state tax return being rejected?  Or, attached to an email is your invoice for your payroll?  Seems like harmless emails, right?  Problem is you have not filed your taxes yet, and you don’t have a payroll service! There are a few SCA[...]

January 18th, 2013 - 6:01 pm § in General Info, Off Topic, Social Media

You “Gotta” Have Goals

  A woman from Louisville KY once told me – “You Gotta Have Goals”, shortly thereafter I was laid-off from that job.  I was one of her goals that week,  get rid of that Finance Director and move his department down to Kentucky.   Why do I bring this up you ask?  Becaus[...]

November 12th, 2012 - 6:00 pm § in bookkeeping, business start up, General Info

Calling on your past due Accounts Receivable

Accounts Receivable – How to get PAID   One of the more difficult aspects of my career has been collecting on Accounts Receivable.  Certainly our current economy does not help matters, and being in a recession since 2008 puts a bind on all businesses.  We have all seen in recent years a num[...]

October 26th, 2012 - 8:17 am § in General Info, Off Topic, Taxes

Regardless who wins the election – we will all be paying more in taxes in 2013

Here is a great article a co-worker sent to me that I found most interesting and does a great job of explaining why regardless of who wins the upcoming election, we will all be paying more. This is just one of the ways we will pay more. by Associated Press Published: October 23rd, 2012 By [...][...]

July 9th, 2012 - 9:10 am § in bookkeeping, business start up, General Info

Guest Post: How Accounting Services Prevent Fraud

How Accounting Services Prevent Fraud Description: Article describes the various ways in which the use of third party accounting services helps to decrease the possibility of a business being a victim of fraud. A joke that is very apt in this context goes: A businessman is interviewing several candi[...]

April 6th, 2012 - 5:45 pm § in bookkeeping, business start up, General Info

Form W-4 – Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate

Form W-4  A common practice for bookkeepers, accounting clerks, HR professionals and Controllers such as myself is to advise an employee, friend or relative on how to fill out their form W-4.  This is a mistake!  Unless you are a tax-preparer, you should not be handing out ANY tax advice, includi[...]

January 19th, 2011 - 8:00 pm § in bookkeeping, business start up, General Info

1099 Time

I have had several businesses contact me regarding rumors that they have heard about a new law regarding 1099′s. It’s no rumor, but I’m not getting too excited just yet.  Allow me to explain. Currently, in general, a company must issue a 1099-misc to any company that provides serv[...]

April 27th, 2010 - 11:28 am § in bookkeeping, business start up, General Info

USE Tax

What is USE tax and why do we have to pay it? There is a common misconception in business that when you purchase something and the vendor/supplier does not charge you sales tax for whatever reason, the business is not responsible to pay the sales tax.  They treat it like a discount, a bonus, yippee[...]

April 12th, 2010 - 2:26 pm § in bookkeeping, business start up, General Info

Sales Tax Issues

When business owners start up a new business one of the challenges for them is state sales tax.  What is taxable?  How much do I collect?  When do I have to send the tax into the state?  All good questions that a new business owner will have. Chances are that if you will be selling [...][...]