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  • CPA Tips for Easier Business Bookkeeping
    Want to keep your small business accounting system running smoothly? One CPA suggests simplifying your bookkeeping by following five, easy-to-understand tips.
  • Using S Corporations for Real Estate Investment
    The general rule is, "Never, ever put real estate inside a corporation." But in a handful of special cases, a corporation, more precisely an S corporation, can be a useful tool for savvy real estate investors.
  • A CPA Explains Why to Fire Your Financial Planner
    Do you really need to pay a financial planner five, ten or twenty thousand dollars a year to help you with your personal finances? Some CPAs say "no," as this article explains.
  • Setting Up a Professional Limited Liability Company
    Small businesses and entrepreneurs often minimize their liability and save taxes by using a limited liability company. Unfortunately, the rules get tricky for professionals (doctors, lawyers and others) who want to take advantage of the LLC option. This article suggests five tips for making the professional LLC setup process clean and error-free
  • Picking a Tax Accountant for your Business
    Need to find a good certified public accountant, or CPA, for your new business? Using these five tips will make your selection easier.
  • A CPA's Accounting Tips for New Entrepreneurs
    Starting a new business? Consider these five, easy-to-use tips to keep your accounting and taxes clean, lean and simple.
  • The Successful C Corporation's Wealth-building Blunder
    Successful business owners operating as C corporations often make a terrible tax blunder--they decide to do their investing inside the business. A tax professor and CPA explains why this mistake is such an expensive error--and what the business owner can do to correct the problem.
  • Seven Tips for Incorporating in Nevada
    Considering incorporating in Nevada? Use these seven tips to minimize mistakes and maximize the benefits
  • Don't Fall Prey to Incorporation Scams
    Incorporating a small business can be an appropriate decision, but new entrepreneurs need to make sure they avoid these three, common incorporation scams.
  • How to Name a New LLC (Limited Liability Company)
    Need a name for your new limited liability company? You'll want to consider both legal and marketing issues says this small business CPA and author.
  • Installing Microsoft Small Business Accounting Program for an LLC
    Setting up accounting software like Microsoft's Small Business Accounting can be tricky if you're operating as a limited liability company. This article suggests four tips to make the setup easier and cleaner.
  • How to Set Up QuickBooks for a Limited Liability Company
    Almost always an LLC gets treated as some other type of entity for tax accounting purposes. That means setting up QuickBooks for the LLC can be complicated. Fortunately, small businesses can use three QuickBooks setup tricks.
  • Techniques for Improving Business Cash Flows
    Are you a small business owner struggling with your day to day cash flows? Try these five tips says the small business accountant who wrote QuickBooks for Dummies.
  • Three Tax Reasons to Operate as a C Corporation
    Many small businesses assume that limited liability companies and S corporations are the only good choices for the business ventures. But a regular C corporation may sometimes be the best choice.
  • Should You Incorporate? Maybe Not...
    Small businesses often think about incorporating. That's not surprising given that incorporation usually reduces business risks and can save a business thousands in taxes. But despite those savings, very small businesses need to think carefully about incorporating because of the costs and administrative work.
  • S Corporation Tax Errors You Don't Want To Make
    S corporations have become the most popular type of corporation in the county--which isn't surprising. An S corporation can save its owners tens of thousands of dollars in taxes each year. To reap those savings, however, the small business needs to avoid these five common S corporation tax blunders.
  • Five Reasons to Begin Business as a Sole Proprietorship
    Starting a small business? Confused about the incorporation option? Don't give up on the sole proprietorship alternative until you read one CPA's five reasons for keeping things simple with a sole proprietorship.
  • Simple Pension Options for Small Businesses
    Looking for an easy yet economical small business pension plan? CPA and former tax professor Stephen L. Nelson says you've got at least three easy, economical choices.
  • Make Your Accounting System a Strategic Tool
    Want to get more from your accounting system? Try these five tricks from the author of QuickBooks for Dummies.

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