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Yes, it is 2016 and any income or deductions you have after the first of the month must be claimed next year. Unless you are one of the experts who know this neat little trick. As part of any 2015 tax preparation strategy, you can sneak in some more contributions to your IRA to be […]

With the New Year upon us, we’ll probably all vow to lose weight, exercise, and spend more time doing things with family. But for those of you looking to increase your pocket book (and who isn’t?), we have a few bookkeeping and money saving tips you should consider. Check out our top 5 below.

We’ve previously warned you about a bookkeeping scam involving a Sheriff’s Department and found more info on related scams. These are targeted at our seniors, a demographic often thought to be not tech savvy and more likely to fall for threats and intimidation. Worst of all, many seniors can have an excess of cash for […]

Keeping track of petty cash is an important aspect of bookkeeping and small-business financial management. Those who fail to do so will end up with an inaccurate and incomplete set of data for their business’s financial situation. Failure to keep track of petty cash leads to wasteful spending, faulty accounting, theft by dishonest employees, and […]

It seems like just yesterday we were all scouring the stores and web for Halloween costumes that didn’t break the bank and now we’re off to shop for Thanksgiving. Whether you’re hosting at your place or pot lucking it in, feeding a bunch of people is never cheap, so how can you cut down on […]

Any property owner in Houston or Harris county, be it residential or commercial, knows that the yearly notice from HCAD is an all around painful part of bookkeeping . But for 40,000 of them, it can be a nightmare involving no small mistake from the people behind the Harris County Appraisal District.