With year-end rapidly approaching, this is the time to take steps to cut your 2019 business tax bill. (Flower Mound Tax Consulting: Year-End Business Tips) Establish tax-favored retirement plan If your business doesn’t already have a retirement plan, now might be the time to take the dive. Our current tax rules allow for significant deductible contributions. For example, if you … Read More
Flower Mound Accountants: Midyear Tax Check-Up
With the summer season quickly ending, vacations and barbecues could be pushing out your business tax planning. However, this is the perfect time to review your business’s tax and financial plans with your certified public accountant (CPA). (Flower Mound Accountants: Midyear Tax Check-Up) Why is summer the best time to meet with your CPA? Here are some potential benefits: Talking … Read More
Dallas Real Estate Tax Experts: Self-Made Millionaire Realtor On Her Success
How did Dottie Herman become the richest self-made woman in the U.S. real estate industry? As CEO of Douglas Elliman, she steers the sails of one of the nation’s oldest and largest real estate brokerage firms with approximately $27.4 billion in annual sales volume and a whopping 7,000 real estate agents. From her hard-nosed background as a real estate broker on Long Island, … Read More
Flower Mound Accountant: Celebrating Small Business Week
What are the challenges that keep small businesses from doing more business? What can entrepreneurs, who already wear so many hats, do to overcome them? Reacting vs. thinking ahead Every business owner knows how important it is to stay on top of day-to-day operations, but survey results suggest “short-termism” is a common problem. Asurvey found that most small business owners … Read More
DFW Small Business Advice: Having A Successful Summer
While for many people the summer is spent outside enjoying the sunshine, for small business owners it’s a crucial time for your business. The life of a small business owner is very different to that of a boss of a large organization. If you happen to be in the earlier years of business and either work alone or with a small group … Read More
Small Business Help: Boost Your Numbers This Fall
The weather is suddenly getting cooler. Leaves are changing color. Halloween decorations line the store shelves. Suddenly, business is picking up. Welcome to fall, the busiest, most hectic, and important time of the year for many small businesses. How will you make the most of the season in your small business? What’s So Important About Fall? Fall is the time … Read More
Best Locations To Start Your Small Business
If you’re thinking about starting a small business, you’ll want to do everything you can to give it the best shot at thriving. However, many factors contribute to the success or failure of your endeavor. As you consider where to locate your new company, it can sometimes be smart to look to successful entrepreneurs who have come before you. Here are … Read More
Questions To Ask Your Small Business Finance Advisor
Let’s say your business has grown to a point where you need to consider hiring a finance manager. Maybe your enterprise is now a middle-market company, big enough to justify giving your “numbers person” a bigger title. But how will you make sure that you’re getting what you need out of this key hire? Here are five thematic questions to … Read More
DFW Accountant: Succession Planning
Becoming financially stable so you can live comfortably in retirement is a goal that many small business owners have. Fortunately, according to a recent Wells Fargo/Gallup survey, 82 percent of small business owners said they are currently saving or investing money toward their retirement. 76 percent said they think they’ll have enough money to live comfortably in retirement. While most … Read More
DFW Accountants: What Small Business Mistakes Can Teach Us
Just because you might be the best accountant, plumber, or chef in town doesn’t necessarily mean that you have all the skills you need to open a business. In fact, leadership itself is a skill – a set of behaviors that can be learned and improved upon. Since we can learn as much from mistakes as we can from successes, … Read More