It’s a Good Time to Check Your Withholding and Make Changes, if Necessary
Due to the massive changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the 2019 filing season resulted in surprises. Click here for more details.
Antifraud Checklist for Construction Companies
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ Report to the Nations: 2018 Global Study on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, construction companies lose a median loss of $227,000. What can you do to protect your construction business? Adopt this checklist.
Hire Your Children this Summer: Everyone Wins
If you’re a business owner and you hire your children (or grandchildren) this summer, you can obtain tax breaks and other non-tax benefits. Click here for more details.
The Simple Truth about Annual Performance Reviews
There are many ways for employers to conduct annual performance reviews. The simple truth is that smaller companies may not need to exert a lot of effort on a complex approach. Click here to learn more.
Selling Your Home? Consider These Tax Implications
Spring and summer are the optimum seasons for selling a home. Interest rates are currently attractive, so buyers may be out in full force in your area. Before contacting a realtor to sell your home, click here to review the tax considerations.
Buy vs. Lease: Business Equipment Edition
Life presents us with many choices: paper or plastic, chocolate or vanilla, regular or decaf. For businesses, a common conundrum is buy or lease. Did you know the buy vs. lease quandary also comes into play with equipment? Click here to learn more.
Check On Your Refund — and Find Out Why the IRS Might Not Send It
According to the IRS, most refunds are issued in less than 21 calendar days. However, it may take longer — and in rare cases, refunds might not come at all. Click here to learn more.
Does Your Estate Plan Include a Formula Funding Clause?
If you’re married and you executed your estate planning documents years ago, when the exemption was substantially lower, review your plan to ensure that the increased exemption doesn’t trigger unintended results. Click here to learn more.
Why You Should Run Your Nonprofit like a Business
It’s a well-known truism in the corporate world: Organizations that don’t evolve run the risk of becoming obsolete. Here are a few things your nonprofit can learn from the business world.
Writing a Winning Grant Proposal
If your funding model depends on receiving adequate grant money, you can’t afford to submit sloppy, unprofessional grant proposals. Here are some tips on writing a winner.
Be Vigilant About Your Business Credit Score
As an individual, you’ve no doubt been urged to regularly check your credit score. But how about your business credit score? Click here to learn more.
5 Ways to Prevent Fraud in Your Law Firm
Enforcing internal controls may simply seem unnecessary in an office of professionals dedicated to the law. Unfortunately, occupational thieves can take advantage of such complacency. Click here to learn more.
2019 Q2 Tax Calendar: Key Deadlines for Businesses and Other Employers
Here are some of the key tax-related deadlines that apply to businesses and other employers during the second quarter of 2019. Contact us to ensure you’re meeting all applicable deadlines and to learn more about the filing requirements.
Are your Employees Ignoring their 401(k)s?
For many businesses, offering employees a 401(k) plan is no longer an option — it’s a competitive necessity. Employees often grow so accustomed to having a 401(k), that they don’t pay much attention to it.
Preventing Phoenix Companies from Taking Flight with your Money
Bankruptcy (or liquidation) can be a valid business tool when used properly. Unfortunately, it can also enable less-than-honest business owners to profit at the expense of their creditors. Click here to learn more.
Beware the Ides of March — If You Own a Pass-Through Entity
Shakespeare’s words don’t apply just to Julius Caesar; they also apply to calendar-year partnerships, S corporations and limited liability companies (LLCs) treated as partnerships or S corporations for tax purposes. Why? Click here to learn more.
Auditing Cashless Transactions
Instead of focusing on the collection and recording of physical cash, your auditors will spend significant time analyzing your company’s electronic sales records. This requires four specific procedures. Click here to learn more.
Investment Interest Expense is Still Deductible, but That Doesn’t Mean You’ll Benefit
As you likely know by now, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduced or eliminated many deductions for individuals. One itemized deduction the TCJA kept intact is for investment interest expense. Click here to learn more.
Have You Had Your Annual Estate Plan Checkup?
An annual estate plan checkup is critical to the health of your estate plan. Because various exclusion, exemption and deduction amounts are adjusted for inflation, they can change from year to year, impacting your plan. Click here to learn more.
Charitable Donations: Unraveling the Mystery of Motivation
Understanding what motivates donors and how their motivations vary across demographic groups can help your not-for-profit more effectively reach and engage potential supporters. Click here for more details.
4 Business Functions You Could Outsource Right Now
It’s never been easier to outsource certain business functions so you can better focus on fulfilling your company’s mission and growing its bottom line. Here are four such functions to consider.