Breaking Up With A Client
When it comes to small business accounting, something to consider besides your books is your clients. It is not only your tax service, your vendors, or your marketing agency that needs periodic evaluation. Just as often, it is your clients. Yes, the customer is always right, but what if they’re not? Signs that your client is not right for your business include not only the obvious: they ...
The IRS And It’s “Dirty Dozen” List Of Tax Scams And Tax Frauds
The IRS creates an annual Dirty Dozen list. These specific types of tax fraud generally are the most prevalent and recurring types of fraud and schemes that they see cropping up. Some of these occur year round, such as bogus IRS “agents” calling you and informing you that you’re about to have a lien or judgement placed against your assets unless you pay a specific tax bill right now, over...
Create A Thriving Business Environment at Your Company
As your Fort Collins CPA, we are here to help you with all aspects of bookkeeping, including filing taxes, handling accounts, and helping you invest in your business wisely. Your Fort Collins CPA can make sure the financial end of your company or business is running smoothly, but a vital element of any business is attracting and retaining a productive and competent staff. We don’t want you to o...
Famous and Notorious Accountants
Many people of note started out as accountants. Your CPA in Fort Collins just might end up on the glittering stage crooning to adoring fans, or signing books once they publish their first bestselling novel. Many fictional characters have also been accountants. Skyler White of Breaking Bad was a practitioner of business bookkeeping, but with her husband’s role as a major drug dealer, her s...
Outrageous But Legal Tax Deductions
As your Fort Collins accountants, we search far and wide to get every one of our clients every possible tax deduction available. In our extensive research, we came across several gems for the 2014 tax season. Take a look at some of the more interesting ones we have come across. Pet Food Do you have feral cats? If you need them to rid your business property or rental of rats, mice, snakes or oth...
Small Business Tax Preparation Benefits For The Self Employed
When it comes to self-employed individuals, the task of small business accounting, and small business tax preparation can be extremely stressful. When you are a business of one, not only do you have to keep a careful and detailed account of all of your business deductions, the compiling of income documentation can be very cumbersome. Most self employed people receive income from more than one c...
Your Accountant’s Guide to Debt Relief
The majority of us are debt holders. We have mortgages, car payments, student loans, and usually even payment plans for medical bills or other debts. Many of us have to make quarterly tax payments. Certified public accountants see this all the time. A client comes in, seeking advice on how to get out from under debt that has become overwhelming. Your CPA in Fort Collins will offer you some soun...
New Business Trends In 2015
Your certified public accountant has been watching the growth of new businesses premised on internet services and internet marketing. As the internet age matures, expands, and increases in every aspect of our lives -businesses included — the demand for internet services and businesses has also grown. The real explosion of internet business started with smartphones. Most people now carry s...