Taxes January 26, 2026
Welcome to Tax Season 2026
The IRS today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025.
October 19, 2017
Pay to Fail: Is There Benefit in Rewarding Failure?
Have you ever made a mistake and then tried to cover it up, hoping no one would notice, hoping you could fix the problem on your own, or counting on it not being an issue relevant enough to worry about? Put yourself in the shoes of the person most ...
October 19, 2017
How to Help Employees Understand and Fill Out Form W-4
When you hire employees, you should have them complete Form W-4 when they start work. The form lets you know how much federal income tax to withhold from employees’ wages.
October 19, 2017
There’s a QuickBooks App for That!
New Apps tab within QuickBooks Online Accountant helps accounting pros expand their role as trusted advisors and add apps directly to their clients’ QuickBooks Online accounts
October 18, 2017
October 2017 Payroll Channel
A new study shows significant trends in enterprise use of external contractors; growing enterprise demand for on-demand support, influx of highly skilled contractors into the workforce, business challenges, and increased individual interest in ...
October 18, 2017
October 2017 Firm Management Channel
It’s ironic that a profession dedicated to minimizing financial risks is so fraught with risk. While many business owners worry about liability and property risk — especially in the immediate wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma — insurance for ...
October 18, 2017
Taking a Small Firm to the Cloud
Steve's practice uses AccountantsWorld's Accounting Power system, which makes it easy to collaborate with clients to share data, includes strong financial reporting and write-up functions, has trial balance, and includes a full bookkeeping system for ...
October 17, 2017
October 2017 Tax Channel
As with previous proposals, the new plan promises to cut taxes for individuals and businesses, while wiping out deductions and repealing other controversial tax provisions.
October 17, 2017
Combating Tax-Related Identity Theft
Millions of Americans have their identities stolen each year with 15.4 million victims in 2016, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. This year's Equifax breach may have exposed ten times that number: 143 million. Tax-related identity theft remains...
October 17, 2017
Cloud Accounting – Way of the Future or a Tool for Now?
The concept of cloud computing that we were discussing 20 years ago around products like QuickBooks Online, Intacct and NetSuite, followed shortly thereafter by Accounting Power, SAP Business by Design, Acumatica, Financial Force, Zoho, Sage One, ...
October 16, 2017
7 Marketing Tips to Attract Real Estate Pros and Brokers
When it comes to marketing to real estate clients, it can be tough. They are on the move constantly.
October 10, 2017
You’ve Been Breached. Now What?
Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America and accounting firms, with their wealth of taxpayer personal information, are often ground zero for cybercriminals. For many, the question is not if you’ll be the target of a cyber-attack, but when.
October 4, 2017
2017 Estate Planning – Free Whitepaper
Most people think that estate planning is for the ultra-wealthy. However, everyone needs some basic form of estate planning in order to pass their assets to the intended beneficiaries. When you die, your estate goes through a probate process and in ...