Are you looking at buying a new house or refinancing your current one? With interest rates being so low, we are seeing lots of our clients asking questions that direction. Before you get too far down the road of (re)financing a home, though, you will need to be as...
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How to Win in the New Year With Solid Budgeting Habits
Money sure can seem like it has a mind of its own sometimes! One minute it’s there, the next it’s gone. If you’re not careful, what you have will leave faster than you can bring more in. The only way to maintain control over your money–in both your personal...
5 Reasons That You Should Hire a Cpa
You started your business for good reasons. You had gifts, talents, and experience that you felt would help others in the world someway, and you just couldn’t wait to get out there. But then the reality of real business life sets in. Some days you wake up ready to...
Should You Make Loan Payments During the Pandemic?
The COVID-19 era has spared few people financially. From job losses and furloughs, hourly cut-backs, and general uneasiness about the future leading to spending cuts, we have all in some way felt the economic burden that the effects of this virus has brought on us. A...
What You Need to Know about 529 College Savings Plans
Freshly-graduated, college-bound high school seniors have their whole lives ahead of them when they throw their caps in the air. The last thing on their mind is how they’re going to pay for the education, nor how long it will take them to pay off that education. Since...
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Entry-Level Accounting Positions: How To Start Your Career On The Right Foot
Attention, job seekers! Are you interested in the best way to secure entry-level accounting positions? Then this post is for you. We’ll explore what hiring managers are looking for, what a good starting salary would be, what kind of experience you need (or don’t...
Operating Lease vs Finance Lease: How New Rules Will Affect Your Small Business
In an earlier post on new lease accounting standards and how they can impact your business, we discussed a couple of different types of leases. Because most business owners are involved with renting some type of property or equipment regularly, we thought it might be...
9 Types of Accounting Jobs To Consider If You’re Looking For An Interesting Career
If you’re wondering what types of accounting jobs are available to college grads and job seekers with accounting degrees, you’ve come to the right place. We’re a CPA firm that’s been around a while (40 years and counting), so we’ve seen a thing or two. One thing we...
How Farm Bookkeeping Can Sow Seeds of Success In Your Ag Business
Farm bookkeeping isn’t exactly like bookkeeping for ordinary businesses. In the “non-ag” world, tracking transactions is fairly straightforward. But on the farm, things move at a different pace. The physical aspects of running a successful farm are tough enough....
New Lease Accounting Standards (And How They Can Impact Your Business)
Many businesses are involved with some type of leasing or rent-to-own transactions. Some lease property while others lease equipment to run their operations. Others are the ones leasing those things out to others as a source of revenue. New lease accounting...