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What Can a CPA Do that a Regular Accountant Can’t?

What can a CPA do that a regular accountant can’t? That’s what we’d like to address today.

Five guys committed a $13 million tax fraud. Here’s how much prison time they’ll do

Miami-Dade residents Jamal Dyer, Jorge Osorio-Rodriguez, Tramaine Sealy, Jonathan Edwards and Daniel Murias each have been sentenced to do federal prison time after pleading guilty to a $13 million tax fraud

What Are Account Detail Types in Quickbooks?

If you’re planning to keep track of your business’s financial records using Quickbooks, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the accounting software’s detail types. Whenever you create an account in Quickbooks — expense account, income account, liability account, etc. — you’ll be prompted to choose a detail type. It’s important that you choose the right detail type because this will affect the subcategory in which the…

Is Hiring a CPA Worth it? 5 Tips for Getting Your Money’s Worth

Often when people find out I’m a tax accountant, I get asked, “How much does a CPA cost?” It’s like me asking “How much does a home cost?” We all understand that a 1,000 square-foot home in Kansas has a different cost than a 1,000 square-foot penthouse condo in New...

5 Tax Tips for Millennials

Winging it on your taxes? You could be missing out on significant savings or worse yet, be endangering your finances and freedom by not knowing the basics.

10 Questions To Ask Your CPA

If you are hiring an accounting or tax and business firm, it should go without saying that you have a CPA involved in looking over all of the work. However, not all accounting firms are created e…

IRS Tax Tip: Ten Tax Tips For Individuals Selling Their Home

The Internal Revenue Service has some important information for those who have sold or are about to sell their home. If you have a gain from the sale of your main home, you may be able to exclude all or part of that gain from your income.Read more →

5 surprising items you can deduct from your income tax returns

Olstein All-Cap Value? Nothing Special Once We Take A Look Under the Hood

The active fund industry is notorious for deceiving investors. We mean deceitful in terms of not giving investors the full-picture of their particular fund’s performance.

Dealing with a High-Capacity Range Hood

A range hood that whisks away cooking odors, moisture, and grease is almost always recommended as a way of keeping indoor air healthy. But what happens to the equation when the range hood is a behemoth, capable of sucking up 900 cubic feet of air per minute? That’s the dilemma that Sean McLoughlin is facing as he designs a 3,500-sq. ft.

I remember when I used to hang out in the 'hood'

Five Most Overlooked Home-Related Tax Deductions

Are you missing out on these five tax deductions for your home? Get tips on getting tax breaks for home improvements, repairs, moving expenses, energy-efficient upgrades, home office expenses and more.

How To Calculate Mileage Deduction with Personal Stop

Most of us mix business and personal errands. Learn how to calculate the mileage you need when drives include a personal stop.

What’s under the hood, Dog?

A surfing bulldog graces the hood of a custom truck at Monday’s Bainbridge Island Classic Car Cruise-In.

How to Install a Range Hood

Range hoods vent smoke and heat from the stove using an internal fan and filter. Range hoods are typically purchased in tandem with a stove, but they can also be bought separately. While it is normal for large appliances to be installed by...

Would You Put a $300,000 Glass Sculpture on the Hood of Your Car?

In the Silicon Valley, it’s not unusual to spot a young, overpaid, Internet entrepreneur tooling around the tree-lined streets of Palo Alto in, say, a M...

How To Pull Off The Perfect Hood Slide