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The Rise of E-Commerce and the Omnichannel Experience for Small Businesses
According to Statista, global retail e-commerce sales amounted to approximately $5.2 trillion in 2021, and are forecast to grow to $8.1 trillion by 2026. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.2%. For small businesses, e-commerce is even more...
Help Your CPA Help You: Everything to Know About Sales Tax
“Whatever happened to, ‘Hey I have some apples. Would you like to buy them?’ ‘Yes, thank you.’ That’s as complicated as it should be to run a business in this country.” - Ron Swanson, Parks & Recreation Despite the wistfulness of comedy TV’s favorite...
Top 5 Problems CPAs Face with Clients
A popular social media meme for almost any profession is the “what I do meme.” For CPAs that meme might go something like: What my friends think I do—surrounded by books and calculators What society thinks I do—tax forms, tax forms, tax forms What my clients think I...
Training Your Clients: How CPAs Can Get Customers Prepped for Tax Season
If the plethora of emails containing links to documents and ads for tax filing software are anything to go by, it’s tax season again. For CPAs this is an understandably busy time of year. For CPAs with disorganized and unprepared clients, this is a time of year that...
Making Your Side Hustle Your Full Time Gig
You had an idea. A skill, a product, a passion project—something you believed in enough to start a side business. Your idea is taking off and you’re spending all of your spare time (and maybe even some work time… shhh we won’t tell!) making it successful and...
Tax Season: A Checklist for Small Businesses
Most individuals give a small groan when January rolls around. It’s not just the tight clothes from too many Christmas cookies—it’s also the knowledge that taxes are now due, documents will be coming in the mail, notifications will be filling email boxes, and the...