As your business grows, your financial needs grow as well. Whereas once you could handle all of it yourself, the addition of employees and payroll means that at some point, unless you’re already a CPA, your financial concerns are going to outgrow your ability to manage your money all by yourself. At this point, you need to bring in... Read More
When you’re growing your small business, there are many things to consider. It is an exciting time when you’re thinking about hiring your own internal employees. It’s important to put your money where it’s going to do the most good to lead to the growth and success of your business. This is the point to evaluate the benefits of... Read More
When it comes to hiring your own employees, it can be an intimidating process. You’re going from owning and operating your own business to adding employees that you will need to count on to take on certain responsibilities. It can be nerve-racking to give up control like that, so it’s imperative that you hire the right positions and right... Read More
For many small business owners, handling the books and doing the numbers is just a part of everyday life — one that doesn’t take up too much time. For some, however, the business has grown to the point where managing the books has become a full-time job in and of itself. If you’re to that point, you might be... Read More
When you’re building a small business, it’s imperative that you’re smart about where you spend your money. There are many things that are going to require your attention and pieces that you need to consider in order to run your company. Whether you’re ready to take on employees or not, you do want to begin in certain areas. There... Read More
In the Greater Des Moines Region, less than 20-percent of the population (33,094) are speakers of a language other than English. The most common primary languages spoken by this segment of the population, in order of their percentage of the population, are: Spanish African languages Vietnamese Laotian Thai Serbo-Croatian Providing Tax Advice for Our Non-English Speaking Businesses and Residents So what... Read More
For small business owners, there are a lot of tempting reasons to try and tackle your business accounting on your own. For one thing, it seems like it might be a good way to save money by not having to hire other workers. For another, it’s easy to fall into the mentality of “the only way to get something... Read More
When it comes to making your small business accounting manageable, Des Moines Regional small business owners should keep these three words at the forefront of their thoughts: Keep it simple! It’s all too easy to be so involved in the nuts and bolts of growing one’s business that keeping the books can sometimes recede into the background. If this... Read More
When a business here in Des Moines Region passes certain financial and productivity thresholds there is often a need to consider outsourcing some of its accounting functions to Des Moines CPAs and accountants. This may result in changes to the business that is beneficial from the standpoint of providing better financial accountability, but which can also be hard to... Read More
When you own a small business, every penny is precious. Unfortunately, there’s no way to run a small business without racking up expenses from time to time. While this is simply how business works, it doesn’t mean that you should just throw away your hard-earned money. But is there a way to keep your costs down so they don’t... Read More
