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Special tax incentives make it a great time to get investors

by Melissa Wildstein  |  8/02/11  |  10:53am

Theres an article up in the Wall Street Journal, "Why Now is the Time to Seek Investors" that outlines a series of tax incentives that make it extremely attractive for investors looking to invest in small businesses and other entrepreneurial ventures. Deals have to close by December 31, 2011, but with incentives like 'zero tax on profits after 5 years', you may find that investors are getting interested in getting back into the start-up game.

Have you considered funding from an angel-investor? Tell us about it

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NYS Sales Tax: To Accrue or Not To Accrue...Part Two!

by Katie Hellmuth Martin  |  3/31/11  |  3:56pm

Those of you in New York State who deal with the issue of accruing sales tax (or not) will love Stacie's followup article on what to do if you paid sales tax on an item, but never received payment for it. Stacie is quickly becoming an expert in NY Sales tax, so you'll want to follow her on Twitter at @sbachfinancial as well!

Click here to read what Stacie found out.

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Top 5 Ways the "Subtotal" Item Helps in QuickBooks

by Katie Hellmuth Martin  |  3/28/11  |  12:14pm

I often offer different discounts to digital clients who do large website jobs, or buy a pre-paid package. When I created the discount in QuickBooks, I noticed that the percent would be off, because it was calculating the discount only from the previous line. But my invoices and estimates tend to have more than one line for different services being preformed per project. Being that I'm my own bookkeeper for my Katie James business, I took to my calculator and calculated the discounts by hand. This meant a lot of extra work if I was estimating, and the numbers changed on the estimate. Or if I just mistyped on the calculator. :)

So I went to my trusty QuickBooks guru, Stacie Bach, and she gave me the solution: use the Subtotal, silly! We knew there must be more amazing reasons to use the Subtotal item in QuickBooks, so we asked Stacie to give us a few more. And boy did she. Click here to read all 5 of her reasons why Subtotaling can make your bookkeeping life a lot easier.

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