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Last week, I began asking you a series of questions, and I'd like you to thoughtfully consider the questions IPlease do consider these six issues as you work through growing your business -- they can catch you off guard sometimes.While some of these questions involve...

Things are getting busier around Ye Olde Accountacy Shoppe (i.e. Utah Real Estate Accountants) as more and more  business owners are touching base to get on our calendar for the next few weeks.Regardless, I thought I'd give you some meat to chew on today about...

Like many business owners, you probably set some goals for 2020.So ... hmmm ... how are you doing on those?Based on data collected by Statistic Brain, 27.4 percent of people typically abandon their resolutions within a week. Within two weeks of January 1st, 31.6...

So yes ... you run a business.Which affords you some massive opportunities not available to  wage employees on your PERSONAL taxes (depending, of course, on how everything is set up for you).So that likely means that you have a couple different tax returns to...

Here's a truth that some entrepreneur-types HATE to acknowledge: uptight accountants are a useful bunch.One of the things we really like, btw, is getting AHEAD of the game for our business clients.Which, regardless of your entity structure, means that I'd like to...

Bar none, the most important asset in your  business is your client and customer list. This is even true if you are in a "capital-intensive" business with significant material assets. In fact, I'd be very interested to hear someone make a strong case that it...

By the time you actually get to reading this, there is a very good chance that you're reading a voice from the last decade. 🙂 I make it a practice to prepare my blog to  clients and friends a few days in advance, and RIGHT NOW, it is still 2019.But 2020 is...

In this holiday season full of conflict and impeachment, I'm ever more encouraged to see outside of my own situation, and practice empathy for those around me.And as the years go along, I'm increasingly aware of how this holiday season is a time of joy for many, as...

The plot to one of the most iconic Christmas movies of all time, Christmas Vacation, centers on one holiday hope: the year-end bonus.Clark Griswold, as "the last true family man", decides he will use his promised year-end bonus to install a pool in his family's...

Let me start out by once again reminding you that we are nearing year-end (as if you really needed my reminder).Business owners are extremely well-positioned to make a dent through proper tax planning more than any other population.On the personal side, you should...

We only have one more month (less!) to make any moves that might affect a whole host of things on your tax bill.I have some examples of what I mean here today, but suffice it all to say: If your business revenues, expenses, structures or results changed in a...

Right in the middle of the bloody depths of civil war, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of Thanksgiving which should take place every year.His entire Thanksgiving proclamation (written by his Secretary of State, William...