Accounting Software: Keep it up to date

Regardless of whether you use a simple accounting software program like Quickbooks, that costs a few hundred dollars, or something more complex that costs thousands of dollars for the original licensing, keeping your software up to date is very important. If you use your accounting software to do payroll, this is especially important. Payroll tax laws are always changing and being updating. If you don’t keep your payroll software updated throughout the year, you many end up with incorrect withholding from employees or filing outdated tax forms with the federal or state revenue departments. Read More »

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Save the Planet AND Get Control of Your Incoming Mail

Every morning I collect the mail left by the postal service. There’s a ton of it and somewhere I think I can hear a rain forest weeping.

The junk mail – usually marked “to current occupant” – doesn’t even get opened. It goes into the shredder. The newsletters, fliers, newspapers, and magazines get sorted into a “likely to read” and “unlikely to read” piles for the coffee table or the recycling bin respectively. And then there’s the other mail: Bills, reminders, letters from Mom. It goes into a “must open” pile. It’s the stuff you have to read and act on. Unfortunately, even that pile can be a big stack. And once you’ve acted on it, you sometimes still need to keep it around. Bills and tax forms, for example, are things that you probably don’t want to through out. You act on them but, after that, you might need them for tax purposes or reference, so they go into a file folder. Those file folders can swell over the year. By the end of the year, you’ve got a filing cabinet drawer devoted to papers you hope you never need again but can’t throw away. Problem is, these papers need to be kept around for various bookkeeping, tax-related, or review purposes… perhaps for a few years!

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