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SBIR/STTR Grant Funding 101: How to secure non-dilutive funding for science & tech start-ups

Shay CPA

This is a game-changer for startups looking to maintain full ownership while pursuing their ambitious projects. About KeepYourEquity, co KeepYourEquity.co’s mission is to support scientists, engineers, and clinicians in their start-up journeys by helping Founders secure SBIR/STTR grants. of Co3lorado, UCLA, Brown Univ.,

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Safeguarding your practice: Rethinking client relationships as DIY tax returns become a reality

Mark Lee

Historically most clients stay with their accountant for many years. They generally move only when they feel their accountant doesn’t care enough about them, puts their fees up significantly or messes up. But I have already started to see a change.

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Friday Footnotes: RSM Layoffs; The Leader Who Cried On His First Day; Advisory Pays Better (Duh) | 5.5.23

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Entry-level CPAs in advisory practices are making $11,000 more than CPAs starting out in audit and tax, and $20,000 more than non-CPAs in advisory. The gap widens again at the upper levels.

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Xendoo vs. QuickBooks: The Difference

xendoo

As more small businesses crop up throughout the country, many business owners are starting to realize that a significant task in managing a company, big or small, is bookkeeping. . From choosing an accounting method to managing transactions to setting up payroll, bookkeeping can be an extremely confusing and time-consuming process!

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Best Tax Preparation Software for Small Business: What Tax Software to Choose?

Snyder

Most SMB owners fall into the trap of putting off taxes until the last minute because they don’t have professional tax accounting software backing them up. If you want to harness the tax game and avoid losing money, employing tax preparation software for a small business can be a game changer. Accounting management.

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Top 5 Write Offs for New LLCs in 2021

LyfeAccounting

Start-up and Organizational Costs. When you first start your LLC, there’s a pretty good chance you had some initial investment costs in things like computers, equipment, R&D. You’re able to deduct up to $5,000 in start-up costs in the first year you open your business. This will save you 15.3%

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

PYMNTS

The race to build a great and powerfully disruptive mobile wallet to knock down the card networks started long before anyone was even speculating about Apple’s payment plans. The earliest big names in the game were the carrier networks. And that fundamentally changed who could play the game,” Kelisky said.