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Navigating Audited Financial Statements for E-Commerce Startups: A Comprehensive Guide

Withum

As these companies gain traction and seek external investments, audited financial statements play a crucial role in instilling trust among stakeholders, investors, and potential partners. 10 Key Steps Here are the key steps startup e-commerce companies can take to prepare for their audited financial statements.

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Why You Should Estimate Your Sales Tax Exposure | TaxConnex

TaxConnex

Is one of your new year’s resolutions to make sure you’re complying with sales tax in 2024? If you’ve determined nexus to exist for your business and understand that your products or services are taxable, but you’ve yet to comply to sales & use tax rules.

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Sales Tax Horror Stories: M&A

TaxConnex

Enter past-due sales tax, a sometimes-overlooked and haunting liability that might not get the attention of, say, overdue income or property tax, until it’s too late. Yes, at first glance sales tax risk might be considered just a marginal risk. Sales tax should get extra attention if the two companies are in different industries.

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Sales tax and M&A: Don't wait until it's too late

TaxConnex

But sometimes, the deal is held up for various reasons – including sales tax exposure within the company being acquired. It’s much easier in general to spot a financial blemish on a public company because of the added scrutiny of public reporting and independent auditing.?Smaller, Determining sales tax risk. Here are the?five?steps?to

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Selling a Private Business? A Valuation Pro Can Provide Peace of Mind

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Preparing for sale Valuators understand the relationship between risk and return as well as factors that affect value. Before a business goes on the market, a valuation pro can help address the following critical items: Financial statements.

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Preparing for Your First Audit – Steps to Follow for Consumer Products Companies

Withum

Although an independent financial statement audit may not gain the day-to-day attention of management the same way as growing revenue or projecting cash flows; for many, there will come a time when an audit becomes a vital part of the company’s lifecycle. When will audit fieldwork commence ?

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Costs of non-compliance (part 2)

TaxConnex

In part 1, we looked at the mounting financial costs of maintaining sales tax compliance with the thousands of tax jurisdictions nationwide. Rolling the dice What have companies done to avoid complying with sales tax regs where they have economic or physical nexus? Do not collect sales tax and fail to remit it.

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