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May 22, 2017 

Apps We Love: Insurance Tools

When you’re thinking about your insurance needs, where do you turn? We wondered if there were apps to help us and started doing some research. Here’s what we found, with the help of some of our members of the CPA Practice Advisor community.

Gail Perry

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May 22, 2017 

Ten Income Tax Benefits for Farmers

Farming has often been viewed as the backbone of the American economy. While technology and other recent developments may have changed this thinking, farmers still enjoy a preferred status, at least as federal income taxes are concerned. For instance, ...

Ken Berry, JD

 May 2017 Tax Channel

May 22, 2017 

May 2017 Tax Channel

I have a client, a husband and wife, and about fifteen years ago the wife went to prison for embezzling money from her employer. In 2007, when she began serving her sentence, her retirement accounts and everything else were liquidated to pay ...

Craig Smalley

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May 22, 2017 

Treating LLC Members as Employees

For an LLC that’s electing to pay tax as an S-Corporation or C-Corporation, it is perfectly fine to treat the members of the LLC as employees. Where it goes awry is when LLC members of partnerships or disregarded entities are treated as employees, and...

Craig Smalley

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May 22, 2017 

Agriculture Services Marketing Tips

Similar to the tax season, agriculture clients have busy seasons too – planting and harvesting. It’s tough to reach clients, and it’s even tougher to gain new clients, during that time. What’s a practitioner to do?

Becky Livingston

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May 22, 2017 

2017 Reviews of Asset Management Systems

The more assets a business obtains, the more complicated it becomes to adequately manage those assets. And for service businesses, or those with a large number of company assets such as equipment and machinery businesses, tool rental businesses, or ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

 3 Tech Trends for Accountants to Watch in 2017

May 22, 2017 

3 Tech Trends for Accountants to Watch in 2017

Some industry experts believe that blockchain technology can be used to revolutionize accounting in several areas, but the term and some of its descriptions have left many people confused. One of the best explanations of what blockchain technology is ...

Mary Ellen Biery

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May 22, 2017 

6 Keys to Asset Depreciation

The term “depreciation” may have negative connotations, but it usually elicits positive vibes from tax practitioners. Thanks to the depreciation deduction rules, your clients who are business owners can recoup most -- if not all -- of the cost of ...

Ken Berry, JD

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May 22, 2017 

America’s Aging Workforce

According to a new survey by the global consulting and advisory giant Willis Towers Watson one in four U.S. employees believe they won’t be able to retire until after age 70, if at all, and nearly one-third (32 percent) say they ...

John Hollon