Apollo 11 Crew: Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin On July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 and 3 very brave astronauts set foot on the moon. This amazing feat took years of planning and although there were plenty of na-sayers they did it. They changed the world. As a business person our hope is to strike [...]
I work with many small business owners…. That’s what I do. There are several stages of business ownership but the most fun for me is the start-up and beginning stages. I get a thrill and get excited about the potential of the new thing and so I spend a lot of time figuring out how [...]
This weekend I celebrate my 40th Birthday. It is a major milestone in my life. At the beginning of the month I started to think about how to celebrate all the wonderful things that have happened in my life, who has been major players, learning opportunities and maybe a few failures. I guess the [...]
Small businesses more than ever should be considering new ways and ideas of how they do business and account for it as well. We live in an ever changing world and unfortunately many people remain stuck in old ways of doing things. Why? Because change is never easy and it causes uncertainty and fear that [...]
The recently enacted 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act is a sweeping tax package that includes, among many other items, permanent extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for most taxpayers, revised tax rates on ordinary and capital gain income for high-income individuals, modification of the estate tax, permanent relief from the AMT for individual taxpayers, limits [...]
In my last blog post I confronted the fear of taxes and the many questions that people usually have for me as they are learning the how-to’s of having a tax preparer or CPA help them through the process. As I finished up writing that blog I realized that there are several other fears that [...]
As a more creative accountant type I am dazzled by the idea of design more and more. I believe design applies to many things in one’s life which in my world requires designing my schedule to meet the needs of my family and business. In the journey to do this I have discovered that in [...]
Every taxpayer aims to minimize tax liability and keep as many of those hard-earned dollars as possible. As many of you know, one way to do that is to maximize tax deductions. Can I deduct anything else? Am I missing anything? These are some of the most commonly asked questions. We want to let you [...]
This term has come up several times in the last few weeks. I was thinking about several things in my life and as I was walking past my oven in my kitchen for some reason the word came to my mind. New year’s resolutions and change generally cause one to stop and re-think things through. [...]
There are times in my life when I want things to just be simpler. I have two daughters and a very busy work schedule and most of the time my family life and business life collide. All business owners have this happen. Growing a business is not easy, not simple and you rarely find balance [...]