Are You Using the Right Business Structure?

The business structure you use – sole proprietor, LLC, etc. – has tremendous impact on how your company operates and pays taxes. A business structure is simply an organizational framework. The IRS requires you to select one for your company, since this...

Why You Should Be Using Mobile Apps with QuickBooks

Intuit discontinued its own QuickBooks mobile app a while back, but there’s still plenty of processing power available for your smartphone or tablet. In days gone by, running a company was a 40 hour per week proposition. You might have taken work home some...

How to Boost Your Credit Score

Rebuilding a falling credit score or attempting to boost your credit ahead of a major purchase, such as a home or automobile, is important. The good news is with attention, focus, and discipline, it can be done. Unfortunately, it’s not usually a lightning fast...

What Does the Executor of a Will Do?

What Does the Executor of a Will Do? A number of decisions have to be made when a Last Will and Testament is created. The majority of those decisions relate to the disposition of estate assets; however, there are other decisions that must be made as well, including...

Does My Business Need to Collect Sales Tax?

A small business faces numerous hurdles along the way to success. At the top of the list is navigating the various local, state, and federal taxes obligations the business incurs. Neglecting to file taxes that the company owes can cause a fledging business to fail...

Steps to Reduce Risk of Getting Hacked

Hacking is on the rise and small businesses are not immune from the risks hackers pose to businesses today. In fact, due to the rapidly evolving pace of technology and the single-minded resourcefulness of today’s hackers, small businesses face greater risks than...

Commercial Lease Laws and Process

f you have made the decision to bring your dream of owning your own small business to life, you may now be looking for the ideal space to lease for your business. You’ve leased apartments or rental homes before so this shouldn’t be much different right?...

Lean Manufacturing Principles

Here are 3 lean manufacturing concepts that can improve your manufacturing productivity. 1) Maintain a neat, organized workspace using the 5S. 5S stands for sort, set in order, shine standardize and sustain. When companies implement 5S as apart of a lean initiative,...

Manufacturing Job Costing

A manufacturing job shop that is a client of ours had a cost estimate per job, but it included lots of overhead allocations. The company could not separate out cash outlays from depreciation expense at the job level. This company was having a hard time getting new...