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Do You Have a Hobby or a Business?

Up and Running

Talk to a CPA and/or an attorney to figure out the best structure for your business ( partnership , LLC , S-Corp , etc.). Get your finances in order. You need a business bank account to keep your personal finances and business finances separate. Get a business bank account.

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Protecting the Passion that Got You Into Business in the First Place

The Startup Magazine

As a former CPA who left the business world to help business leaders protect their passions, I’ve seen how easy it is for founders to lose sight of the reason they got started. As your business evolves, you’ll probably find yourself spending more time sorting out tax, accounting and finance-related tasks. I’ve even lived it myself.

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New Year, New Finances – How To Keep Your Small Business Finances In Control

YoungUpstarts

January is here and hopefully you have already decided where you are going to take your business in 2014. Instead of letting your businesses’ finances cloud your day-to-day, make the steps to take control this year: revisit, rethink and refuel. By Ken LaRoe, Chairman and CEO of First GREEN Bank. Revisit last year’s financial numbers.

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Do You Have Fear of Financials?

Up and Running

2. Forecasts don’t take an MBA, CPA, or PhD. For example, you don’t have to guess what assets you’ll need in 2014 to guess that you’re going to spend some estimated amount of money to buy them all. For example, did you see how prices ended up lower or higher than what you thought? Or conversions on the web?

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Address These 3 Critical Risks Before You Start an Assisted Living Home

Up and Running

Actually, they hadn’t even asked basic questions about financing or labor costs. Looking at the financials for this type of juggernaut is a complicated matrix that only a CPA could understand! in 2013 and 2014 as a copywriter and marketing consultant. Unfortunately, no one in my circle ever asked me about a business plan.

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5 Critical Tips to Reduce Your Business Taxes This Year [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

For example, if you spent $2,000 on marketing services in December 2013 that weren’t actually delivered to your company until January 2014, you probably couldn’t claim those marketing services as an expense for the 2013 tax year. Earlier this month I hosted Ryan Clower, a CPA from the accounting firm M.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.