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Don’t Mix Business And Personal: Tax-Time Tips For Small Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

From prepaid cards to traditional corporate bank accounts, there are many options out there designed to meet your company’s unique needs. With the right product, your employees can use their own company card and you will be able to determine how much money is available for their use. Separate expenses.

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Small Business and Startups: 5 Tips For Keeping the Books

crowdSPRING Blog

Enter the accounting team: you, your bookkeeper, your CPA, and (sometimes) your tax specialist.Rat. This is often driven by your choice of accountant: if your CPA uses Quickbooks , it’s a reasonable bet that you will, too. Are you doing your accounting in the most productive and cost-effective way?

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Female Founder Interview: Melissa Kehl and Office Design and Manufacturing

The Startup Magazine

Rieke specializes in design services and manufacturing, including custom furniture manufacturing. Here Melissa tells us more about her entrepreneurship journey and success story: TSM: Melissa, to start, describe your product/service in 10 words or less: Melissa: We transform offices into places people want to work.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Being a small cozy design studio at first, we understood we had to have a catchy name. I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. Moreover, des-ein sounds like design.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

You get increasing growth by optimizing the viral loop , and you get revenue as a side-effect, assuming you have even the most anemic monetization scheme baked into your product. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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How to Run a Full Financial Audit of Your Business and Optimize Spending

Up and Running

Most people think of financial audits as investigations carried out by a certified public accountant (CPA). Could you buy products in bulk to get significant savings? If you have a web design and copywriting company, categorization could help you determine how much each provided service results in profitability.

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Three Common Expense Tracking Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

by William Olsen, CPA, Co-founder and VP of Product Development at Deductr. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. He is a licensed CPA in the State of Utah. William designed the tax and accounting functionality of Deductr.

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