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Cash Flow, Profitability, and How You Can Still Go Broke.

Forecasting and understanding your cash needs as you grow your business is one of the biggest problems that small businesses have. If you don't understand cash flow, if you confuse cash flow with profit ... you need to have a conversation with Joe Knight. Or you can read about ours.

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Unemployment Insurance Tax - What The Media Isn't Saying

is it possible that an increase in UI taxes will cause businesses to fold? Company.com did a little digging.

Taxes for Entrepreneurs
Limiting Your Audit Risk

You can never eliminate that chance of being audited, because a perfect tax return will be suspicious, too (who files perfect taxes?) Company.com has ten ways to reduce your risk of an audit – we figure that most small businesses don’t have big accounts in the Caymans or Switzerland, and that if you’re reading this you haven’t run into significant tax problems in the past. Otherwise you'd know this stuff already.

Taxes for Entrepreneurs
Your First Tax Season

If, like tens of thousands of individuals in 2009, you started a business, 2010 might be the first time you’ve ever needed to file business taxes. You might think that they’re just like individual taxes, but you’d be wrong. Business taxes are the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Your individual taxes are the Cliff Notes of “Where’s Waldo?”

Cash Flow, Profitability, and How You Can Still Go Broke.

What the Austin Plane Crash Means for Small Businesses

On February 18th 2010, Andrew Stack III allegedly crashed a Piper Cherokee PA-28 into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. In an apparent suicide note, Stack railed at the government and the IRS, and quoted Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act. But what does 1706 say, and how does it affect you as an employer? And yes, it probably does.

Why you need a bank account

Separation of personal and business finances is essential for any business owner, and gives you a little protection from the IRS. How do you open a bank account for your business? It's not quite as simple as wandering into the local branch of the big bank on the corner.

Factoring: A faster path to cash after a sale

Account receivables factoring companies provide funding or payments due to you from your customers. You sell the debt to a factoring organization at a discount, the factoring company gives you cash and collects the full debt from the client when it's due. You get paid, your customer gets time.

Cash management

How should you manage your cash properly? First, you better know how much you've got, where it is, and where it's coming from. If the information is in your accountants head, that's a start. If you need to improve your cash flow, you might look at accounts receivables funding or the judicious use of credit. Read our primer on understanding cash flow.

Alternative Sources of Business Financing

If the bank won't lend you capital, how do you finance your business? We're assuming you don't have a rich Uncle Tony and don't have a winning lottery ticket in your pocket. Your choices after that are institutional lenders, private lenders, account receivables funding, or selling a part of your business. Finding capital can be tough, but here's how to find a few, and how to be professionally prepared to answer the tough questions a lender might ask.

Credit Cards - What's The Upside of Paying for This?

Cash flow is the life blood of a small business – any business, actually. Accepting credit cards transactions is one of the most important decisions your business can make. Sure, there's a cost of leasing or buying credit card processing terminals, and it should be taken into account -- but given the choice between paying with a credit card and deferring a purchase, many of your customers will choose to wait to purchase. That’s money out of your pocket.

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