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Year-End Accounting Tasks: What Should You Do?

Accounting Tasks at Year-End You might wonder why there are so many extra tasks at year-end. While the government requires much of the work, there is clean-up work and adjustments that need to be done to make the books accurate. It’s not always cost-effective to perform all of these updates monthly, so you’re actually saving money by doing some of them at year-end.  Here are just some of the items that are performed at year-end. Tax-related: If you have payroll, employees Read more [...]
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Uh-Oh; I Got an Audit Notice from the IRS. Now What?

If you receive an audit notice from the IRS, do not panic.  Just breathe! Read the letter in its entirety to see what they are auditing.  In many cases, it’s a great idea to hire a tax representation professional to deal with the audit, especially if it’s a field audit (described below).  Why You An audit can be triggered in any number of ways. It could be that the IRS computer randomly pulled your number.  Certain amounts on the return can trigger this: high mortgage Read more [...]