Blogging for Business – part 2

by Lynnea BylundFebruary 28, 2012

Business blogging is not new, it started over a decade ago. And blogging is important to the marketing efforts of small and medium size businesses. As we revealed in part-1 Blogging for Business, a major important  aspect of business blogging is inbound lead-inquiry generation via organic search.  Regular blogging increases search visibility by a significant measurable metric, and that means […]

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Business Blogging for Business Owners – part-1

by Lynnea BylundFebruary 24, 2012

We are hearing a lot of talk these days: “The end of business blogging…,” The death of business blogging…,” yada yada. And truly, blogging stats are going down a bit from previous all time highs. What with the many other channels of reader engagement, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, among others, it might not seem worthwhile to start or maintain a […]

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QuickBooks Hosting Can Help Your Bottomline

by Lynnea BylundFebruary 12, 2012

Cloud Accounting? Maybe you’ve heard, “you could use a QuickBooks hosting solution” and didn’t know what it meant or if it even applied to your business. Or, maybe you have multiple locations and need everyone working in a centralized QuickBooks data environment and doing it as simply as possible? AN EASY WAY TO VISUALIZE QUICKBOOKS […]

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Changes for April 2012 Tax Filing That Benefit Many Taxpayers

by Lynnea BylundFebruary 11, 2012

From Roth account conversions to new requirements in  capital gain and loss reporting, there are several tax changes for the 2011 filing coming up. Here is a rundown of  ten changes that can be of possible advantage to you this tax cycle.  If you have any questions about these or other tax changes, call us. We’d be […]

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Proper Communication Equals SMB Success

by Lynnea BylundFebruary 5, 2012

If you manage an SMB, be prepared to communicate. It’s an important part of what  SMBs do. The same thing goes for those who lead them. Here are some expert tips and tools to help you better marshall the communications of your SMB enterprise – Source:  Small Business News –  Opening Up Why you must spend […]

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Should You Prepare Your Own Taxes?

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 31, 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 Wins Top Accounting Host Award

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 30, 2012

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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Bookkeeping & Accounting with Gaps

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 19, 2012

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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When to outsource your bookkeeping and accounting

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 18, 2012

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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More Sales vs More Cash Flow

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 17, 2012

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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QuickBooks Tip: Is The Balance Sheet Correct?

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 11, 2012

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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Cloud Bookkeeping, Five Good reasons

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 8, 2012

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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The Future of Small Business Accounting (is now)

by Lynnea BylundJanuary 1, 2012

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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The Importance of Maintaining Your Corporate Minutes

by Lynnea BylundDecember 27, 2011

Each month, many small company owners elect to incorporate their business.  They might decide at the beginning, or may choose to do it later because their company is growing and they want to shield themselves from the potential liability that growing companies face. Regardless, business owners want to limit the extent to which their personal assets […]

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QuickBooks Tip: Increase Speed & Performance

by Lynnea BylundDecember 22, 2011

QuickBooks speed and performance is something that we all deal with. As our QuickBooks files get bigger the worse performance becomes. When you are dealing with Enterprise the typical file begins to demonstrate performance issues at around 500MB while Pro and Premier files typically show degradation around 256MB.   There are two reasons for this, […]

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Five Final Things For Business Owners Before 2012

by Lynnea BylundDecember 20, 2011

We imagine that you have a big list of tasks to get done over the remaining 10 days approaching 2012, But in the midst of your growing list of to-do’s, you should be making sure that you properly close out the business year. Alyssa Gregory at Small Business Bonfire recommends five important tasks to complete […]

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New California Law Targets Independent Contractor Use

by Lynnea BylundDecember 16, 2011

Lisa Autry at Pinnacle asks, “Is your worker really an independent contractor, as defined by law?”   This question is taking on new importance for employers in the state of California. Last month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 459, labeled by its opponents as “The Job Killer Act.” The new regulation imposes […]

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What About Cloud Hosting Your Tax Software?

by Lynnea BylundDecember 6, 2011

Application hosting is not limited to QuickBooks and Microsoft products any longer.  Kacee Johnson at Cloud9 Real Time Explains – The Cloud9 virtual server solution provides clients with a private cloud to host all their desktop applications including Tax Software, Time & Billing programs, CRM systems etc. Tax software hosting allows users to access the […]

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QuickBooks, Is It Time To Upgrade?

by Lynnea BylundDecember 6, 2011

Every fall, Intuit, the maker of Quickbooks, updates the software. Well, it’s that time of year and they released Quickbooks 2012 in mid September. So, what can you expect in Quickbooks 2012, and, as usual, there have been some obvious improvements: An easier start-up experience, for one. In earlier releases, to set-up company file, one had […]

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Why your business needs a mission statement

by Lynnea BylundNovember 26, 2011

Emily Suess remembers the first four words of the mission statement crafted by the school board leaders of her small school district in Southern Indiana. Hanging on the wall in every elementary, middle school, and high school classroom was a brief statement of purpose that started with the words “learning takes place here.” Apropos for […]

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