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Buying a New Business Vehicle? A Heavy SUV is a Tax-Smart Choice

RogerRossmeisl

If you’re buying or replacing a vehicle that you’ll use in your business, be aware that a heavy SUV may provide a more generous tax break this year than you’d get from a smaller vehicle. The reason has to do with how smaller business cars are depreciated for tax purposes.

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Get to Know TaxConnex: Partner Q&A Series - Jackie Breiter

TaxConnex

Looking to find out more about TaxConnex? What better way than hearing from our founders and partners? Learn from the best by hearing from the ones that built TaxConnex. Over the last few months, we've been highlighting the Partners of TaxConnex.

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QuickBooks Online and Lockstep Inbox: The Perfect Accounting Tools for Small Businesses

Lockstep

s If you’re an accountant, you know that a big part of your job is staying on top of your company’s finances. And if you’re working with a small business, you know that every hour counts when it comes to keeping the books in order.

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The Accountant Shortage is So Bad Anime Waifu Girlfriends Are Taking Up Tax Prep Now

Going Concern

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The Power of Storytelling in Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Karen Hardy, CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

Join this exclusive webinar with Dr. Karen Hardy, where she will explore the power of storytelling in risk communication as a core component of a resilient organization's management framework!

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1099-NEC guidelines for business owners

SMBAccountant

When a new vendor or subcontractor provides a service to your business for the first time, it is important to request a W-9 from them as soon as possible.

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Turn That Fraud Dispute into a Loyalty-Building Opportunity

RogerRossmeisl

If customers report fraud or suspicious charges on their accounts, what might seem like a challenge can actually be an opportunity for your business. Handle these disputes efficiently and you can regain — and even strengthen — customer loyalty.

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Why QuickBooks for Small Businesses works better with Lockstep Inbox

Lockstep

s If you’re an accountant, you know that a big part of your job is staying on top of your company’s finances. And if you’re working with a small business, you know that every hour counts when it comes to keeping the books in order.

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“SOS! Do I Need to Prepare a 1099 for Credit Card Payments I Make to Contractors?”

Patriot Software

Paying a contractor to perform work for your business comes with a little disclaimer: reporting said payments on Form 1099-NEC. But what if you pay your contractor using a credit card? Do you have to prepare a 1099 for credit card payments?

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Friday Footnotes: Disengaged Team? Do This; Deloitte’s Huge India Expansion; Auditors Yelled At…Again | 3.24.23

Going Concern

Reminder: you have until April 17 to weigh in on a proposal to extend the CPA exam window Practice Is it time for firms to transform their business model? Journal of Accountancy ] Pandemic pressures have worn the workforce thin, and the economy is in the thick of rapid, radical change.

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Selling Your Startup: Internal Preparations

BurklandAssociates

The funding market was challenging during the back half of 2022 and expectations are that trend will continue in 2023. With cash running short and funding abundance running dry, there Read More The post Selling Your Startup: Internal Preparations appeared first on Burkland.

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Automating Vendor Bills: Solving Six Major Pain Points for Small Businesses

Small business owners are looking to reduce manual work and manage people more efficiently. Manually keying invoice data, approving invoices and losing or hiring staff are just some of the pain points they experience when managing vendor bills.

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After $3.5 Billion Accounting Error, South Carolina Comptroller Could Be Ousted

CPA Practice

By Joseph Bustos and Javon L. Harris, The State (TNS) After South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom’s office made a multibillion mistake, a panel of Senate budget writers are suggesting the Republican be removed from his position and the office stripped of several responsibilities.

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Construction Business Growth Through Networking And Having A Mentor

Randal DeHart

Most business owners receive plenty of well-intentioned advice and 'helpful opinion' from family and friends. However, good business advice spoken from commercial experience is another matter entirely.

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Xero announces future plans for WorkflowMax

Xero

Over a decade ago, Xero acquired the WorkflowMax (WFM) product to build out Xero’s practice tool offering globally, and ultimately help us to create a more seamless experience for accountants and bookkeepers to run their practice in the cloud.

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ChatGPT Isn’t Terminator for Accountants…Yet

Going Concern

note: the following is a guest post by Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA, who has not yet been replaced by ChatGPT as far as we know. Or has he? Your senior is probably not a synth.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

Join Wayne Spivak, experienced CFO and corporate finance expert, for an insightful discussion on managing cash flow and company profitability.

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Selling Your Startup: External Preparations

BurklandAssociates

In the first installment of our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Considerations series, we discussed internal preparations directly within a company’s control that can contribute to an efficient and effective M&A Read More The post Selling Your Startup: External Preparations appeared first on Burkland. CFO Insights Due Diligence Fundraising

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South Carolina’s Top Accountant to Step Down After $3.5 Billion Error

CPA Practice

By Joseph Bustos, The State (TNS) South Carolina’s top accountant Richard Eckstrom says he will resign effective April 30 after disclosing to state lawmakers that he inflated the state’s cash balances for a decade, eventually reaching about $3.5 billion.

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Avoid this mistake if you want more referrals

Mark Lee

I wonder if you make an all too common mistake. We all hope that clients will want us to provide a range of services to them. And we hope that clients will recommend and refer us to other prospective clients too… But, as I frequently point out, ‘hope’ is not a strategy.

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Work Smarter, Not Harder with Workflow Automation

AccountingDepartment

As we move towards a more technology-driven world, it's important for business owners to adopt a "work smarter, not harder" mentality. One way to achieve this is through workflow automation with ERP software like NetSuite.

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Everything You Need to Know About Crypto

Speaker: Ryan McInerny, CAMS, FRM, MSBA - Principal, Product Strategy

This exclusive webinar with Ryan McInerny will teach you all about cryptocurrency and NFTs! Register to learn more about identifying crypto transactions, crypto asset market trends, managing risk and compliance, and supporting customers and partners using crypto-based payments.

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Busy Season Survival Tip #626: Save Those Paperclips

Going Concern

Accounting OG @twuench took a break from telling interns to get off his lawn and has shared this great busy season survival tip from his former direct report at PwC. Take notes, people. link] IRS employees, y’all are out of luck sorry. Not like you’re allowed to partake anyway.

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KROST is Sponsoring the Restaurant Leadership Conference

KROST

KROST’s Restaurant Practice Leader, Jean Hagan, and Senior Manager, Derek Johnson, are attending the Restaurant Leadership Conference (RLC) on April 16-19, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona at the JW Marriot Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort.

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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

CPA Practice

The Texas Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would lower the eligibility requirement for CPA candidates to sit for the CPA exam from 150 semester credit hours to 120. The bill now advances to the Texas House of Representatives for a vote.

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Financial Management Tools for AE Firms

GrowthForceBlog

9 min read Roughly 1,000 new architecture firms are established every year with a scant 25% three-year survival rate [1]. Profitability & Growth

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Exploring the Overlap: Cost Optimization and Digital Transformation

Speaker: Alex Jiménez, Managing Principal, Financial Service Consulting for EPAM

The largest banks have increased reserves for protection against deteriorating economic conditions. Should banks delay their digital transformation investments and focus on cost reductions? In this webinar, Alex Jiménez will walk us through that question and examine the prudent course of action.

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CFOs Love Outsourced Bookkeeping Services for These 4 Reasons

AccountingDepartment

Outsourced bookkeeping services are here to help CFOs of small to medium-sized businesses optimize their time and offer them a number of benefits!

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TIL EY Has Commoditized Space

Going Concern

Is there any limit to the robust and ever-growing suite of services offered by professional services firms? Apparently not. As we’ll learn in a sec, not even the sky is the limit.

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Don’t get fooled: How to use “quick questions” during tax season to expand your CPA advisory services

ThomsonReuters

It’s probably happened to you before. A client comes in to drop off all their tax prep information and stops to ask you a “quick question.” ” It’s a question that is easy for you to answer, but one that has nothing to do with the work you do for the client.

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Assessing an Accountant’s Suitability for Remote Working

CPA Practice

By Steve Evans. Since the pandemic changed our attitudes towards working from home and accelerated an already growing trend towards remote working, there’s a common theme among accounting commentators that the world of work has moved on and accounting firms need to catch up.

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The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020: Initial Catalysts, Current Implications, and Future Impacts

Speaker: Elizabeth "Paige" Baumann, Founder and CEO of Paige Baumann Advisory, LLC

In this session, Elizabeth “Paige” Baumann will cover the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which also includes the Corporate Transparency Act. She'll take a deep dive into the catalysts that brought on the act, the current implications of the act, and what impacts the act has on the future of banking and finance.

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Advice For Marketing Agencies On Developing & Implementing A Budget

GrowthForceBlog

8 min read There's a lot of talk about marketing budgets- but what about budgets for marketing agencies? Accounting & Bookkeeping

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QuickBooks Payments Now Offering Dispute Protection

Insightful Accountant

See how the program will help protect small business against unforeseen charge-backs, regardless of fraud, no questions asked

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Now’s Your Chance to Tell NASBA How You Really Feel (About Extending the CPA Exam Window)

Going Concern

The following message is for current and aspiring CPAs: it isn’t often that anyone asks your opinion unless it’s a client trying to get free work out of you but there is an issue in need of your immediate attention and feedback.

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UK finance software isn’t making the grade

Accounting Insight

New research being officially announced at BETT 2023 has found that almost half (47%) of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) working in Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) rate their finance software as ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’.

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How Automation Can Streamline Your Month-End Close Process

Start the new year with powerful automation for your month-end close and reconciliation process. See how automation can change the trajectory of the close, buy back time, instill more confidence in the results, eliminate administrative headaches and be audit ready.