Part of the job of any bookkeeper or tax preparer is to keep an eye out for fraud. Ignoring warning signs in a client’s finances could leave you on the…
Last month I attended Scaling New Heights, a popular conference in the accounting industry. The theme was “Tame the Machines,” but what struck me most was the people I met…
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by Shuyi Shang, Accounting Community Manager at Bento for Business If you’ve been in business longer than five minutes, you’ve realized that succeeding as a ProAdvisor isn’t just…
Stephanie Thomas is a certified public accountant (CPA) with expertise in state and local tax (SALT) issues. She wrote this guest post on why it’s important for you to keep…
by Shuyi Shang, Accounting Community Manager at Bento for Business One of the topics that comes up most when I talk to our CPA and accounting clients is time:…
Tax season’s in the rearview mirror, which means a lot of us are breathing a sigh of relief and enjoying some well-deserved down time. That’s great. But before you jump…
by Shuyi Shang, Accounting Community Manager at Bento for Business March and April suck. How do I know? Tax season. I work with accountants and CPAs every day, and…
Whether or not you’ve stopped to think about it, small businesses are more vulnerable to internal fraud than their larger counterparts. This is because small businesses… Typically don’t have a…
Preventing fraud may not be top-of-mind for most small-business owners, but accounting professionals understand that fraud is a real – and potentially costly – risk. In fact, the Association of Certified Fraud…