From the monthly archives:

January 2012

Should You Prepare Your Own Taxes? Should you fix your own car or plumbing? It seems you can’t go anywhere without seeing or hearing advertisements for the easiest, most cost effective and secure way to file your Federal Income Tax return. But how do you make the decision what way is best for you? Should […]

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Cloud9 Real Time has been honored with the 2012 Reader’s Choice Award by CPA Practice Advisor for favorite accounting ASP/Hosted Solution Provider. The new category of SaaS Accountant Solution Provider saw Cloud9 Real Time garner nearly 33% of the vote and trump the 2nd and 3rd place providers by over 10% of total readers polled. […]

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What happens when you know you have expenses that are not entered in to QuickBooks yet, and, its time to produce financials (end of month, end of period, end of quarter, end of year) and yet there are some costs missing. How do you fill in the gap? It might be that a vendor invoice […]

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Small business owners excel in a DIY mode: Do anything and everything you can do yourself and don’t pay for anything new until you absolutely must. It’s especially tough to rationalize hiring financial help like a full-time or even an outsourced accountant or bookkeeper. With so-called “user-friendly” financial software like QuickBooks available, many business owners […]

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Often times small company owners and managers gauge their business results by their checking account. But if you’ve been in business for awhile, you already know that cash rarely equals income or profit. And even if you know what your company income is, do you really know how to read your cash flow and financial reports? For most […]

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Recently we looked at a new client’s balance sheet and saw that there were way too many accounts that gave rise to issues based on our understanding about his company.  We realized that he perhaps didn’t fully appreciate the importance of his balance sheet and how to read it. It is crucial as a business […]

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The business accounting field is one of the slowest sectors to seize upon advantages of the emerging technologies. And many company owners are skeptical about having their finances managed in the cloud.* *See the highly-rated eDashboard Solution “Even in-house accounting systems are not invincible to damages or catastrophes. But technology has changed the business process […]

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Kacee Johnson, at her Cloud9 Real Time Blog, recently summarized a talk by accounting tech guru Doug Sleeter of Sleeter Group. Sleeter makes some excellent points about the future of Cloud Accounting, the breathtaking pace of new add-ons that enhance QuickBooks and other accounting applications, and whether you and your firm have what it takes […]

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