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Employing your Children in Your Business
As a business owner, you are constantly looking for potential tax breaks or options for shifting income. If you have children, one option to consider is putting your kids on...
Beware of Third Parties Selling You The Employee Retention Tax Credit
What is ERC? The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) has been a hot topic since 2020, when the Coronavirus pandemic changed the world. The credit was implemented to aid companies in...
Managing Cash Flow: A How To Guide
Managing cash flow can be the difference between your business success or failure. You can’t open a book on entrepreneurship without the mention of cash flow. But, what is...
Understanding Negative Balances in Your Financial Statements
Negative balances in your financial statements can signal errors or issues with your business performance. In some cases, a negative balance can be accurate, but it’s important to review further...
Reviewing your Financials: Top Five Things to Look For
If you’re getting regular monthly financial statements in your business, you’re already ahead of many business owners. But financial reports are only as good as the time you put in...
How to Limit Your Exposure to Email Phishing Scams
Phishing scams are ever-present in business today. Whether it’s emails, phone calls, direct messages, or web infiltration, scammers are finding new ways every day to take advantage. With the increase...
Spooky Accounting Stories – Owning a Business versus Running a Business
You’re the best in the business, but you never went to business school… Many business owners “fell into it” because they turned their passion into a business. After all, if...
Spooky Accounting Stories: Mistreatment of Intercompany Transactions
Picture this – you’ve built your company from the ground up, and now you’ve got multiple legal entities, separated for tax purposes, tracking purposes, and maybe you want to sell...
The Books on Our Shelves
Get Better – this core value reminds us to strive for more training to always be experts in tools our clients need, better our understanding of industry specific trends, and...
Surviving the Global Pandemic
We’re back! We’ve missed you! There is one primary reason we have been quiet on the Fortiviti blog this last year…SURVIVAL. We are now a year and a half into...