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Growing Pains: The Top 8 Accounting Issues We See at Startups

BurklandAssociates

Burkland’s Fintech Practice Leads Steven Lord and Smit Shukla share eight accounting gaps and issues to watch out for in the early days of scaling a startup. Startups are inherently Read More. The post Growing Pains: The Top 8 Accounting Issues We See at Startups appeared first on Burkland.

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How to Easily Sell Peace of Mind to Your Clients

Ryan Lazanis

As an accounting firm owner, you should know that one of your main selling points is providing peace of mind to your clients. But how do you make this more tangible for them? In this podcast episode, I’ll give you some tips on how to easily sell “peace of mind” to your clients. Listen Below. 0:59 – Clients say that peace of mind is what they’re looking for from their accounting or bookkeeping firm. 1:39 – I want to show you how you can gain an advantage over y

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Signs It May Be Time For a New Accountant

AccountingDepartment

Hiring your first accountant, whether it be internal or external, for your business is a big step in terms of growth. It provides some further assurance that your company's finances will be kept in check. However, the first accountant or the current accountant that you work with might not be the best accountant or even the best option for your business.

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The Right Document Management System for Your Accounting Firm | Canopy

Canopy Accounting

Your company could be stacked with all kinds of human talent. A whole office building of ambitious, albeit nerdy, accountants with Ivy League universities listed on their resumes.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Been Burned by Outsourcing Before? Let's Talk about It.

GrowthForceBlog

6 min read. Making the decision to enlist an outside company to handle any portion of your business is a big choice and one that should not be taken lightly. With the right outsourced professionals, your business stands to improve leaps and bounds. Selecting the wrong outsourced service provider, however, can cause irreversible damage to your company with inefficient and unorganized systems, poor communication, lowered standards, and unhappy customers.

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KPMG’s ‘Do As We Say Not As We Do’ Tips to Prevent Employee Turnover

Going Concern

KPMG has some sponsored content in Harvard Business Review about how to keep employees from defecting (defecting? Really? It’s a job, not the Sandinistas) and in it, the firm offers some suggestions to encourage employee loyalty. Suggestions that they themselves would be wise to implement should KPMG want to hang on to their own people (there may or may not be a mass exodus underway at KPMG , according to Going Concern archives this has been going on at least since we were founded in 2009)

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But Who’s Counting? Episode 12: Should Businesses Consider Accepting Cryptocurrency?

Anders CPA

Some of the largest companies are now accepting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payment, but how and when will this impact small and mid-size businesses? In this segment of But Who’s Counting?, David E. Hartley sits down with Anders tax partner and cryptocurrency guru Derek A. Barnard to dive into what investors and businesses need to know before they get involved with crypto, including: Clearly defining blockchain and cryptocurrency Tax implications of bitcoin and other cryptocurren

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How to Conduct an Audit in Your Small Business

Patriot Software

A nerve-wracking visit from the IRS isn’t the only type of audit out there. There are several audits you can—and should—conduct regularly. And to do that, you need to know how to conduct an audit. Read on to learn: What is an audit? The types of audits Why performing an audit is important How to […] READ MORE.

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2022 tax planning after the Inflation Reduction Act

Accounting Today

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Colorado: Fee or tax?

TaxConnex

Remote retail sales just got rockier in Colorado, which has begun imposing a 27-cent fee on every retail delivery made by motor vehicle to a destination in the state. The fee will apply when at least one item is subject to sales or use tax and the delivery is mailed, shipped or delivered by motor vehicle. Wholesale sales or sales of exempt goods are not subject to the fee.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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IRS Notice of Deficiency – Help Rights &Options

MyIRSRelief

Receiving an IRS Notice of Deficiency, also known as a “90-day letter,” is a serious matter that requires prompt attention. If you receive this notice, it means that the IRS has determined that you owe additional taxes and that you have 90 days to either pay the amount in full or file a petition with the U.S. Tax Court. If you need tax representation, call us at 1-877-78-TAXES [1-877-788-2937].

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Dealer Vision: Volume VII

Withum

End Summer on a high note by diving into these exciting articles written by Michael Mulhearn , Michele D’Antonio , Robert Campbell and first-time writer, Joseph Polanco. We will discuss if trade-ins are eligible for a sales tax credit, how to protect your dealership from fraud, the automotive industry in the metaverse and privacy and safeguarding customer information.

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Audit Partners and MDs Work Much, Much Harder Than Everyone Else at PwC

Going Concern

Saw this in PwC’s 2022 Audit Quality Report and wanted to get the peanut gallery’s opinion on this math: My first thought is imagine how much worse these numbers would be if you people didn’t eat as many hours as you do. Though judging by this, you’re getting much better at it. Thoughts? Concerns? Outrage? Have at it in the comments.

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How not to tank your sales tax audit (part 1)

TaxConnex

If you are a business that must collect and remit sales tax, an audit is probably one of your biggest fears. Rightly so: Sales tax audits can find fault with a variety of your operations and can cost you big– if the determination goes against you. But as usually happens in business, you can take steps to protect yourself and, in fact, not make the situation worse.

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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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Equifax Verification – A QuickBooks Desktop 2023 Feature

Intuitive Accountant

New for 2023, QuickBooks has partnered with Equifax to automate employment and income verification. No data is shared unless the employee specifically makes a request. Employers also can opt out of this service.

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Making Sense of a Wacky Stock Market 

Withum

Yesterday (September 13), the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened up about 375 points and closed down 1276 points or a loss for the day of 3.9%. The S&P 500 index was down 4.3%, and NASDAQ down 5.2%. These are big losses, yet all three indexes are up for the prior three-month period. Stock prices go up and down, and this is a continuous situation.

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Listicle of the Day: The Accounting Firms on Fortune’s 25 Best Large Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services

Going Concern

Yikes that headline was a mouthful, sorry about that. Anyway, Fortune has released its 25 Best Large Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services list and you might be surprised to learn that only one Big 4 firm cleared the top ten. Actually you might not be surprised by that at all once you learn the methodology : To determine the Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services list, Fortune partnered with people analytics company Great Place to Work who analyzed the survey resp

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Women in business shoutout to their biggest inspiration!

Reckon

Reckon is like an accountant in your pocket – but we’re not the only ones making small business life easier. We invited Reckon clients to tell us about the people in their lives who’ve made their success possible. Katy Walker, Amanda Stevens and Christine Metcalfe share the stories of their pocket pals who’ve inspired them and who have always had their back through their professional journeys.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Diane Gilson on Being Insightful Accountant's 2022 ProAdvisor of the Year.

Intuitive Accountant

Kelly Gonsalves caught up with Diane Gilson during Scaling New Heights 2022 to discuss her business and what being Insightful Accountant's 2022 ProAdvisor of the Year means to her.

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Taking Aggressive Tax Positions in Light of the Expected IRS Hiring Binge

Withum

Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act the IRS is hiring thousands of new field agents and examiners. Before this new funding, taxpayers of all stripes and income brackets enjoyed a period of very low audit rates due to the IRS’s shrinking workforce, which further exacerbated the audit statistics. As a result, the chances of getting audited became about the same as the odds of winning the Power Ball lottery.

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4 Accounting Tips to Run a Profitable Professional Services Company

Basis 365

It doesn't matter if you run a marketing agency or a management consulting firm when it comes to managing a profitable consultancy business. It is only half of the job to provide your consulting services. In addition, your business must send accurate invoices to clients and collect payments promptly. For a service-based business to be profitable, it is essential to track time and invoicing accurately.

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What Is Surprise Billing IDR?

ThomsonReuters

QUESTION: We’ve heard that group health plan claims for certain services must be resolved under federal IDR rules. What is IDR, and what claims does it apply to? ANSWER: The No Surprises Act (included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA)) protects individuals from surprise bills for certain out-of-network services (see our Checkpoint article ), and establishes an independent dispute resolution (IDR) process under which out-of-network providers and health plans may resolve disput

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Harness the Potential of Your Enterprise Knowledge

The first Market Momentum Index: AI and Unstructured Data Management, conducted by Deep Analysis with support from AIIM and M-Files, surveyed 500 enterprises across various industries to assess their readiness to employ AI. The results reveal that AI is already far more embedded into organizations' operations than previously realized. These findings and more insights have been brought to you in the "Market Momentum Index: AI and Unstructured Data Management.

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Making the Business Case for AP Automation

Intuitive Accountant

For a variety of reasons, it can be difficult to convince some executives to make the investment in AP automation. MineralTree COO Elizabeth Kowal explains how to make it happen.

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TAX PLANNING 101: Busting the Myth that Tax Planning is Only for the Rich! Part 1

CTP

By now, everyone has figured out that America’s wealthy and elite are not always avoiding taxes through illegal means. There are thousands of court-tested, law-abiding strategies that help the 1% avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes year after year, like the ProPublica article “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.

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What Is Mileage Reimbursement, and How Does it Work?

Patriot Software

As a business owner, running errands is inevitable. But sometimes, you are too busy to make the run yourself. You might send an employee to pick up something or handle a task for you. If you find yourself counting on employees to use their personal cars for business, consider offering mileage reimbursement. So, what is […] READ MORE.

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Make Giving a Habit With Daffy

Withum

Explore Other Episodes. #CivicWarriors #WithumImpact. The post Make Giving a Habit With Daffy appeared first on Withum.

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Solve Your Firm's Automation Complexities Once and For All

Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

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Future Forward 2022: Security for QuickBooks 2023 and Beyond

Intuitive Accountant

Top 100 QuickBooks ProAdvisor Kellie Parks takes a deep dive into the most current security considerations and best practices for the coming year and beyond. Sign up for the Oct. 4 webinar now.

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How your clients can reduce their children’s taxes and get out of debt with the money saved

CTP

written by Lyle Solomon. Taxes can be stressful. The last thing your clients, who probably wear multiple hats, want to do is send more of their hard-earned money to the government. Fortunately, various tax reduction techniques are available to help your clients lower their taxable liability. How to reduce your client’s children’s taxes. Consider some of the strategies listed below if your clients want to reduce their children’s taxes. 1.

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Creating an Unlimited PTO Policy

Patriot Software

Offering paid time off (PTO) is a benefit many small business owners extend to employees. Although the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not typically require PTO, many business owners provide paid vacation and personal days. And, some employers may even offer unlimited PTO policies. Have you considered creating an unlimited PTO policy for your […] READ MORE.

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Construction Company Employee Compensation And A Note On Taxes

Randal DeHart

There are a few different methods that employers use to pay their employees, and while they may have similarities, they each also have implications for your construction business and employees. On top of that, there may be a blended model at play, in which you offer two types of compensation at once, such as a wage and bonuses. When paying employees, laws and the IRS have made the payroll function a time-consuming nightmare for the small business owner.

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It Takes Two to Tango

With automation, you’ll reduce errors and save valuable time, allowing you to focus on what really matters: strategic analysis and insightful decision-making. Picture accurate financial reports ready at your fingertips, giving you the confidence to tackle business challenges head-on. Embracing automation not only boosts productivity but also elevates your role from number cruncher to closing rockstar.