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Small Business Tax Calendar for September 2008
Following is a list of important September tax dates for small business owners, bookkeepers and accountants to be aware of:
Calculating the Value of Your Business
There are a number of ways to calculate the value of your business. One way is to simply tally up the value of your company's assets. A second way is to compare your business to similar businesses that have sold recently. A third way is to simply assume your company is worth some multiple of your revenue. However, the only method I recommend using to calculate the value of your business is to calculate the value of future cash flows. A brief discussion of the different methods follows:
About QuickBooks Sales Receipts
As a general rule, it makes sense to use sales receipts in QuickBooks instead of invoices if your customers pay you at the time they receive your product or service. The reason is that because you receive payment right away, there is no need to track how much your customers owe you. In this situation, using sales receipts is an easy way to track individual sales, calculate sales tax and print receipts.
Intuit rises on 4Q results, solid 2009 guidance
Intuit Inc. shares rose Friday after the tax preparation and money management software company posted fiscal fourth-quarter results that met Wall Street expectations, and offered a full-year forecast that ...
Samarak Launches New CFO Services Website
Samarak is splitting into two companies, one of which is an internet company which helps accountants, bookkeepers and QuickBooks consultants obtain business over the web and the other of which provides CFO Services to small and medium-sized companies throughout the US. As such, we have launched a new website for the CFO Services side of Samarak and have removed the CFO Services content from www.samarak.com.
Adding Your Logo to Your QuickBooks Invoices
Adding logos to QuickBooks invoices is quite simple. In the Create Invoices window, click on the Customize icon to open the Basic Customization window.
IRS Releases Revised Instructions for 2008 Form 990
The newly revised instructions for the 2008 Form 990 have been posted on the IRS's website, along with three background documents which explain the new forms and instructions. The revised instructions and background documents are intended to help organizations prepare to file the revised 2008 Form 990, which was released by the IRS in December 2007 and is effective for 2008 tax years (returns filed in 2009). Links to all four documents follow:
Customizing Invoices in QuickBooks
Because QuickBooks offers a great selection of template invoices, most small companies will not need to do much customizing of their chosen template invoice beyond adding their logo to it. However, those QuickBooks users that have special needs or are just very picky will find that it's not that difficult to customize QuickBooks invoices to look exactly the way they want them to.
QuickBooks Tutorials: Creating, Editing and Emailing Invoices in QuickBooks
We recently added a number of QuickBooks tutorials having to do with using invoices in QuickBooks. Each of these QuickBooks tutorials includes detailed instructions, screen shots, and explanations and discussoins of things you should think about.
Who Pays the Most Taxes?
Everyone knows that the more one earns, the more they pay in taxes - both in dollars and on a percentage basis. However, most people will probably be surprised to find out just how much of the total taxes collected the top earners contribute. Here's a breakdown:
