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6 Reasons Your Business Needs Proper Bookkeeping

Proper bookkeeping is an essential element for any size small business – larger or smaller. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs often neglect this task in favor of growing and running their business, which is understandable. After all, you’re a business owner – not a bookkeeper. (more…)

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Why Small Businesses Lose at Tax Time

It’s just a couple of bucks … That’s what busy small business owners say to themselves all the time when they stop to pick up envelopes or paper for their office. But it’s that mindset – and the lack of accounting that can be a big cost to their business in the end. While the expenses might not add up to be more than $50 or $100 a month, that can be $600 to $1,200 a year! And the cost … (more…)

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Legislation Can Change Everything … At Any Time

You never know when new legislation might be passed, turning your small business’s life upside down.  Just when you think you have things figured out and your business is on the right track, the government can decide that you need to change the way you operate.  Small business owners in New York are currently facing a scenario in which proposed legislation threatens to change the way they will be allowed to pay their employees. (more…)

Posted in: IRS and Tax forms, Payroll, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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So You think Handling Your Own Payroll is Easy?

As if payroll itself wasn’t complicated enough, there are IRS reporting deadlines and deposit schedules to comply with as well. And, to make things ever more interesting, it can change depending on how your payroll changes through the year. How can a small business owner keep up with it all? (more…)

Posted in: IRS and Tax forms, Payroll, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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Bookkeeping Mistakes – Every Small Business Owner Makes Them

My friend, Karen, has a boutique. She has been running the small business single-handedly for close to six years now, and she recently expanded to take over some additional space next door. The additional square footage has had a greater impact than she expected – and has created some real stress and most importantly, one humongous realization. (more…)

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Are You Keeping Your Small Business Accounts In Order?

The truth always comes out at this time of year – right after small business owners file their tax returns. Unless a business owner has learned about accounting practices and knows the ins and outs of profit and loss statements and balance sheets, the language of business finance can be absolutely foreign. As a friend of mine often says, “I think they’re talking Pekingese.” (more…)

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Why Shouldn’t Small Business Owners Use Annual Performance Reviews to Manage Employee Performance?

You might be thinking, “Wait, isn’t that what a performance review is for?” Unfortunately, performance management – or, as it has also been called, “performance review” has long had a negative connotation attached to it, when, really, it should be a positive and constructive experience. In fact, through my years of HR experience, I have seen how powerful and profitable a good performance management strategy can be for small businesses. (more…)

Posted in: Hiring and Firing, Human Resources, Policies and Procedures, Staffing

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Is Your Bookkeeping Killing Your Small Business?

It’s pretty overwhelming when you think about it – one out of five new businesses are destined to fail. The top reasons for small business failures all tie back in some way to financial management. Cash flow, cash management and just knowing the numbers are at the crux of the problem. The reasons for that are probably pretty simple: many small business owners don’t go into business to do bookkeeping and be a financial analyst. They go into business to provide a product or service to the masses. That’s what really floats their boat. (more…)

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5 of the Biggest Payroll Mistakes that Small Business Owners Make

Have you ever read something and found yourself shaking your head in agreement through the entire piece? Well, when I saw a slide presentation from Accounting Today about the payroll errors commonly made by small business owners, I had to agree. I personally have been given these reasons for why some of my clients make the decision to outsource their payroll to The Payroll Department! These are costly mistakes when the IRS or other governmental agency gets involved – I know lots of people who will agree with that. Don’t be caught out! (more…)

Posted in: Churches and Non-Profit Employers, IRS and Tax forms, Operating a Small Business, Payroll, Payroll Processing, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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4 Benefits of Outsourcing for Your Small Business

As an entrepreneur, are you trying to do it all when it comes to running your small business? While you may think you’re the only one who can do the work efficiently, that’s not really the case. If you want your small business to grow, you need to learn how to let go and start delegating tasks that really aren’t your forte. However, some entrepreneurs don’t want to hire full- or part-time employees to take on these responsibilities. That’s when outsourcing makes a lot of sense. (more…)

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