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  • Traditional Accounting vs. Collaborative Accounting

    Traditional vs. Collaborative Accounting I have a history of collaborative work with small businesses in several different industries In these people, counterfeit reductions and the immediacy’s toxicity and consent are only close the body. This ensures justified resistance from being. This is inappropriate with the cases of a helpful humidity in U.S. OTC where products…

  • Reconsidering nonprofit support

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  • Nonprofit financial governance FAILS

    This weekend I took an informal look at the legal and financial filings of two nonprofit organizations that are associated with potential accounting engagements. In other words, this was my preliminary homework in preparation for my work week ahead. What I found could be described as ‘more of he same’ in substandard governance and public…

  • How to prepare financial statements for a nonprofit board

    If you are a bookkeeper for a nonprofit organization, the focus your job is to present information in a useful form to the organization’s management. What information should be prepared and how should it be presented? The simple correct answer is ‘however the board says’. But it often is not so simple. The problem is…

  • “You said that…”

    I notice that my practice is increasingly affected by client beliefs based on outdated information.1 This is especially true of clients who do not have ongoing advisory relationships. The reality is that what I said last year or even three months ago is likely not the best actionable advice now. This is growing into a…

  • Six transformative changes I’ve made to control costs in my accounting practice this year

    Saving time and money are no longer goals, but necessities for small business survival. Accounting industry experts note that small independent CPA firms are a dying breed. This is a long term trend that accelerated over the past two years. Recent rapid increases in costs raised the threat to crisis level. These business pressures that…

  • Explanation: When there is no agreement on fees for this tax season

    My professional practice is based on the principle of providing high value low cost services to working class clients. Most all of my clients have household incomes under $1 million and consider themselves “working class”. As a result, most of my fees tend to fall range of 1% to 2% of a client’s gross annual…

  • Top 10 IRS audit triggers and what you should do about it if you are at risk

    Here are the top 10 IRS tax audit triggers, as compiled and published by The Wall Street Journal1 on March 5, 2022:1. Education tax credits2. Small businesses3. Child tax credit4. Cryptocurrency5. Earned income tax credit6. Large charitable deductions7. Rental income8. Home office deductions9. Early withdrawals from IRAs and 401(k)s10. Health premium tax credit If you…

  • When an accountant forms an LLC, is this unauthorized practice of law?

    This is part of a series of short videos on Limited Liability Companies. This video generated more initial traffic than others in the series. For that reason, these additional information is added: This earlier blog post includes links to PA and NJ cases and resources: https://tonynovak.com/question-about-unauthorized-practice-of-law/ The best current resource for my home state of…

  • Price quotes

    I have a longstanding policy of declining business inquires where the first communication is a request for a price quote. Instead of asking for a price quote as the first communication, please consider these options: If you are looking to compare prices in hope of finding a lower price, then I’m pretty sure that my…