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How Clients’ Expectations of CPAs are Evolving

Whether it’s race cars or companies, time changes everything. It’s inevitable, so we evolve. For CPAs to retain relevance as we race into the future, they must evolve to meet companies’ and clients’ expectations. In imagining a future where tech has eliminated the CPA’s traditional compliance functions and transformed when, where, why and

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How to Change Opening Balance in QuickBooks? Explained

QuickBooks is a packaged deal that offers you advanced tools and features that manage the finances of your business. While creating a new account with QuickBooks Desktop, you will need to enter several details to track your daily transactions. This also includes your real-time account balance for the current day.

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Why IT Services May Threaten CPA Independence

Do you provide information technology services for your attest clients? Or does the firm that performs your attest work also provide information technology services? Those services may now cause independence concerns. This article highlights the changes and how to approach the new guidance. The ET Section 1.295.145 of the AICPA Code

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3 Strategies for Growing an Advisory Practice

For decades, accounting firms have generated organic growth and profits by offering essential services such as bookkeeping, tax and audit. However, the services that got your firm where it is today won’t necessarily get you to where you want to be in the future. To remain relevant and meet client

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Evolving Tax Landscape: 2021 Regulatory Outlook

As if the tax landscape had not been rattled enough for tax year 2020, the Biden administration’s proposed changes for the 2021 tax year and beyond may change the traditional tax planning season as well. This could be yet another significant shift only a few years after the Tax Cuts

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Calculating Capital Gains Tax on Second Home Sales

Just joining in? Go back to part one, which contains information about a tax hit for sellers of vacation homes, and enlighten yourself on why an irked Congress enacted Code Section 121 (b) (5). Its precise wording curtails the availability of a series of full exclusions of as much as

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How to Overcome the Challenges of Growing a Firm

Did you follow a traditional career path? Or was your course altered along the way? For many accountants, their route to business ownership was not straightforward or intentional. Perhaps you started a side hustle while working for a firm, or your life circumstances changed, requiring more flexibility, and you decided to go for

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A Simple Guide to Stock Options & Their Tax Impact

A stock option is an agreement between a buyer and a seller to exchange stock for a pre-set price within a specific period. Employee stock options, for example, are agreements between the corporation and the employee to purchase common stock at a price set by the corporation. The stock must

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Xero Tax Return Error Resolved in 4 Quick Steps

Xero is an entirely cloud-based accounting software for small firms fulfilling bookkeeping purposes like invoicing and payroll. One of its striking features is the Tax Return that automatically registers groups of all tax returns (received electronically). The strategy calls out to Xero Tax on a scheduled daily basis to recover

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Getting to know QuickBooks Fixed Asset Manager

QuickBooks is the best-rated accounting software that provides top tier software solutions to handle your accounts and taxes. One of the prominent features of this application is the QuickBooks Fixed Asset Manager (FAM). FAM helps you account your fixed assets from the day of procurement to riddance. It is also

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