Business Management
Finding a Good CPA
What To Look For When Selecting A CPA
Selecting a professional is a daunting task. This guide will enable you to be better able to select a professional whose talent, expertise, and style will best assist you long-term.Finding an Atlanta CPA
Even though all Certified Public Accountants must meet strict standards to earn their license, A CPA's experience, education and life experience can help you select the right firm for your needs.
Financing
Funding Your Business - Loans, Leases, and Lines of Credit
There are many financing methods which are available as your business grows. This guide will help you select which one is best for you.Alternative Funding Methods for a Growing Business
A guide on what to do when you banker says no leading you to discover new funding vehicles to help your business achieve its goal.Working with a Banker and Obtaining Credit for your Business
Finding a good banker and maintaining a close rapport keeping them well apprised of your business's trends and operations results will help him be able to say yes when you need them the most.Examine Your Options Before Taking Out a Mortgage
A changing marketplace and a tightening economy are impacting financing decisions as well as the whole of the economy impacting this critical financial decision.
Understanding Financial Statements
Bookkeeping for a Small Business
Unleash the power of information by learning the ABC's of accounting for the business and financial operations of your business.Preparing and Reviewing Financial Statements
As your financial results of your business are like a doctors chart of their patient, this will help enable you to understand financials and their use.Monitoring Your Books at the End of the Month
Consistent month end control procedures are critical, as any variance to these will negatively impact the reliability of your internal financial. These are just a few of the tips we give clients each and every day.
Financials as a Management Tool
Managing the Heart Beat of your Business
Unlock the secrets of your business by learning to check its pulse by a review of your company's internal financial information.Using Cash Flow Forecasts to Improve Business Decision Making
Many cash/acquisition decisions when made in with little or no information appear prudent until it is too late. Beginning with the basis of Cash Flow 101 a business owner can learn how to best make larger financial decisions with prudence and foresight.
Investing and Retirement planning
Investing 101 — Who's Managing Your Money?
Understanding the nuances of investing, long-term strategies, and how to select a financial adviser are all critical components managing your money.Selecting the Proper Type of Retirement Plan for Your Business
Whether you are just getting started or have been in business for years, selecting amongst the varied retirement plans requires the skill of a surgeon and the grace of an artist.Stock Options
Learn how non-qualified stock options work and how you can utilize them at your work as a successful planning tool.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Factors to Consider When Valuing a Business
Although each and every business is different learning basic valuation techniques will put you well ahead of others when evaluating either the value of your own business or a potential purchase.Due Diligence when Buying a Business
Digging beyond the financials will enable you to see beyond what the numbers alone can tell. Studying manpower required, dependence levels on different products/customers, reviewing contracts and leases, and protecting intellectual property are all critical components of any wise evaluation process.
Leadership and Management
Quality is a Zero Sum Game
The more you give away the more that is returned. Study how you can take charge of your life by being accountable, proactive, and to always be part of the solutionPlan For Success
Only you can plan for your ultimate victory in the marketplace. This checklist will help guide you to consider many of the myriad of obstacles which many business owners omit.
Protecting Your Business
Protecting Your Company's Investment in Intellectual Property
Trade Secrets, Non-competes, Trademarks, and Copyrights are all an important of the asset protection strategy of a growing business.Managing Risk by Using Insurance Policies
Whether you are a seasoned or a new business owner the myriad of insurance coverages, and limits, and deductibles are critical decisions a business owner must make.
Strategic Business Concerns
Expanding Your Business by Adding a Partner
If you are contemplating adding a partner this is a must read well before the stock is issued. Discover techniques how to protect your business and your overall business during this intensely important time.CPA To Teach Businesses Techniques For Survival
Learn how you can avoid the common pitfalls that befall many business owners so that you might join and remain amongst those who succeed.Using Forensic Accounting Techniques in Case of Business Losses
Insurance and Business Interruption/Lost Profit claims are unwanted conversations to have, however this article will enlighten you in beginning the process of rebuilding after a loss.
Budgeting & Forecasting
Eliminating Excess Spending
No matter how much time, energy, and effort you invest into budgeting for your business and family expenses, there is no methodology which will replace these time tested techniques to appropriately limit unnecessary spending.Planning Versus Historical Accounting
In real estate it is location, location, location while running your own business requires you to plan, plan, plan. Seek to understand how your day to day business decision and operations affect your business strategically.Personnel, Key To Managing Firm's Growth
Whether you are the President of your company or its receptionist, each and ever client contact and correspondence affects not only your current years profitability but also its long term survivability.Strategic Planning
Looking ahead is the most critical aspect of planning that a business owner will ever do. Seeking to avoid pitfalls, maximizing profits, and managing manpower are all important aspects of this process.
Press Releases
John Dillard Chosen SBA's Accountant Advocate of the year in Georgia
Community involvement from teaching at Emory, initiating law to protect Georgia's children, helping to overturn Georgia law to shield workers from unscrupulous practices helping to maintain the state as a right to work state, teaching a Bible study at an elder care home, mission trips, and much much more.
Resume
Resume of John Dillard, CPA, Accountant
Read in detail the depth of the past experiences, accomplishments, and achievements of a CPA who takes Christ along with him each day to work. Studying tax law and by utilizing wise discernment are hallmarks of his past and future work.
Tax Management
For the New Business Owner
Tax Effects Of Entity Choice
We can help you navigate through the myriad of tax law letting you make the best strategic and tax decisions in incorporating your business.Incorporating in Georgia
Starting your business off with the best tax elections for your business are amongst the most important business decisions you will ever reach. Discover how you can best set yourself up for business success as you consider this critical part of your business start-up.New Corporation Forms and Registrations Checklist
Whether you are just incorporating or have been in business for years. This summary will enable you to quickly locate the forms and guidance you need to ensure your business maintains tax compliance.
Payroll and Independent Contractors
Identifying if a Worker Is an Employee or Independent Contractor
Classification of your workers is often one of the most confusing sections of tax law. This recap will begin to enable you to properly classify your workers.Becoming a new Employer in Georgia Checklist
An easy to review source of many of the forms, applications, and procedures you will need to be apprised of to ensure compliance with a variety of taxing authorities.Managing Payroll Forms
Easily the most administrative burden of owning your own business, payroll is the bane of many who try to go it alone.
Surviving an IRS Audit
How Audits are Selected
Learning about how audits are selected is the first step to discovering how to overcome the emotional and financial duress which normally occurs as part of the audit process. Lifting this veil will help keep you on an even keel in learning how to deal with the IRS audit.When the IRS Notice Arrives
Rather than beginning the process in fear, discover how you can better prepare yourself so that you are not surprised at the audit process and its ultimate results. By seeing through to the other side you can best ready yourself to close your audit with no adjustments and no additional monies due.
Working with the IRS
Solving IRS Tax Issues
Don't fight the IRS but work with them to resolve your tax problems. Discover a myriad of legal ways the IRS is eager and willing to work with you to resolve any unpaid debts, penalties, and interest.Paying Your Taxes - Withholding and Extensions
Paying your taxes made easy. This section will enable you to quickly grasp the general guidelines of tax law requiring that you pay taxes as you earn money. As well, extensions and their uses and limitations are disclosed and discovered.Solving IRS Tax Problems: Submitting an Offer in Compromise
When all else fails and if you qualify, the IRS and Georgia both have a program which will enable you to work to solve the severest tax problems.
Tax Planning
Year End Tax Planning: What Businesses Should Do Now
If you fail to plan, you are preparing to be surprised. Learn how you can get ready now for your year end liability and survive the year-end tax preparation process.Should You Maximize Profit or Work to Pay Fewer Taxes?
Tax Planning is an art under-girded by the science of the tax code and proper planning. Learn what you need to know to be a wise and judicious steward of your business.
Strategic Tax Issues
The Tax Implications of Selling a Business
If you have decided to sell your business you will want to be well armed with knowledge of how tax law will impact you so that you can plan accordingly legally avoiding unnecessary penalties and interest.Deferring Taxes with Like Kind Exchanges of Property
Tax law has long allowed for like kind investments to be sold with no gains being recorded. Learn how this section of the tax code might benefit you in you as a long term estate planning technique.
Tax Deductions
Finding (and Tracking) Business Tax Deductions
Whether you are a new business owner or have owned your company for years, missed business deductions are a consistent cause of concern. Discover new ways and methods to improve your business tracking skills.Handling Automobile Expenses
Vehicle expenses are perhaps the most discussed while still being the least understood of all the tax code sections. Read how this section of tax law can be made simple so that all might understand.
