How to Keep Your Accounting in Check

How to Keep Your Accounting in Check
The accounting profession has changed drastically in the last five years and cloud-based solutions such as Xero, SageOne and FreshBooks have emerged, allowing accounting professionals and their clients a real-time view into their financials. If you were to ask entrepreneurs what their favorite...

Computerizing Your Accounting System

Computerizing Your Accounting System
One of the most important tasks facing a small business is keeping watch over the money flowing into its coffers and out to its vendors, employees and advisors. Fortunately, today's full-featured-yet inexpensive-accounting programs allow business owners to track and manage every aspect their companies' finances....

You Should Review Your Accountant !

You Should Review Your Accountant !
Is your accountant helping your business or upping your tax bill? Take a close look. With the tax-filing season in full swing, it makes sense to take a good, hard look at your accountant and the work he or she has done for you over the past year. Is your accountant helping you save money? Is your business...

Add an Accountant to Your Business

 Add an Accountant to Your Business
If you think you only need an accountant during tax time, you may want to think again. Good business accounting is not just about balance sheets and tax returns. With the help of a competent accountant, you can track your business's finances and make sure it's running at the optimum level. And to take...

How Long Should Keep Financial Records?

How Long Should Keep Financial Records?
This isn't another sermon on the importance of financial record-keeping. Just the opposite: It's about discarding unnecessary records to free space in your overstuffed file cabinets. But which records should you keep and which can you trash? Tax returns and supporting data should be kept for at least seven...

Why You Need an Accountant ? Sholud to Know!

Why You Need an Accountant ? Sholud to Know!
Should I hire an accountant? Also, how can I make the most of this business relationship? One aspect of running a small business that few people give a lot of thought to is the way they deal with professional vendors such as bankers, lawyers, accountants and so on. Most entrepreneurs just dive...

11 Expectations You Should Establish For Your Bookkeeper

11 Expectations You Should Establish For Your Bookkeeper
You may be a successful business owner with a multitude of skills, but if bookkeeping is one of your weakest links, you should probably hire a bookkeeper to help you out. But before you bring someone on board, you need to make sure they know what to do, and you'll want to set expectations for them...