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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...
7 Key Tasks for CEOs to Improve Time Management
In our last blog we talked about what it means to successfully fill the role of CEO in your company. As every solo entrepreneur knows, being the CEO is a bit like being both the conductor and the engineer on a train—at the same time. Managing your time productively is...