If you are a member of the management team of a calendar year company, and you’ve not started your budget development for 2022, you’re already late. Remember how last year went? Getting ready for the new year at this point isn’t going to be easy, but it’s going to be...
I don’t really think our folks in Congress had those words in mind when they authorized the Small Business Administration back in 1953. But it’s pretty clear that was the essence of their mission. Since then the SBA has done amazing things to help small businesses in...
One of the things that small businesses – and often mid-sized ones too – don’t do well is bookkeeping, the source of all their financial reports. When money to (1) expand the sales and marketing team, or (2) add new products, or (3) pay bonuses to the owners, have to...
Assuming the variants don’t keep coming, the worst of the pandemic might be over. Of course, if you live in a vaccine-resistant area of the country, it may still be hovering, threatening to lower the population or at least make it very uncomfortable. Come to...
When it’s time to sell the business you’ve spent years building, and you want to be sure to take care of those long-time employees who helped you make it the success it has become, a really good path to consider is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or ESOP, in which...
A government program you may not have heard of – ERC, or Employee Retention Credit – is a way to get a refund of your employment taxes already paid into IRS – no strings attached. This is a refund that you’ll get directly from the IRS without resistance, if...
