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I have a confession to make – when I started working for Century Accounting in February of 1995, I did not know how to read a financial statement. I was 18 and didn’t even know what a balance sheet was – I just learned that to help our clients succeed and grow I needed to learn more than how to just “drop the numbers in!” Luckily, over the last 25 years, I’ve learned a thing or two about financial statements. So, in orde...
Updated July 12, 2020 I was recently speaking at a small networking group, about some of the takeaways I had from the 2018 tax season. I was discussing the swing our office saw from taxpayers who had always itemized, to an increase in returns in which they took the standard deduction. There was a gentleman who raised his hand and said, “I hate to admit it, but I’m not sure I really know the difference between standard and itemized d...
The first step for effective tax planning is to organize that ever-growing accumulation of records in your desk drawers, closets, and other storage spaces. If you have misplaced something, resolve now to reconstruct missing or incomplete records before they become hazy in your mind. Haphazard records can cause you to needlessly lose money to taxes. The better the records you keep, the easier it is to search for opportunities, which...
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