Monitoring and tracking your business over time is crucial to achieving your long term profit goals and business growth. To look at your business numbers requires discipline and asking the right questions. Mark Dicus & Company would like to share what questions you should be asking yourself as well as why and how to forecast…
You should not wait until tax season rolls around to be concerned about your unemployment tax rate. You can face budgetary surprises, which leaves you scrambling when you fail to anticipate changes. Many companies consider it a cost of doing business and don’t think they have control because UI is one of the highest employer…
The ethics of accounting are important to uphold and ensure that your business maintains its reputation and financial stability, no matter if you handle the small business’s books yourself, or hire a professional from Mark Dicus & Company. With ethical accounting practices, our clients have qualified professionals working for their company. If you resort to…
There are not a lot of people that enjoy having to deal with the IRS. Although this is a necessary part of the United States to ensure that all people pay their fair share, it can be difficult to know if you are making wise decisions. There are lots you need to know about taxes…
When you are in a crowd there are certain topics that bring about more differences in opinion than others. If you are discussing family vacations, your children’s achievements, or the latest hit movie everyone is bound to jump into the conversation with ease. Bring up politics, taxes, in-laws, or religion and the conversations can become…
Studies show that over 70% of Americans get a tax return each year. Those tax returns on average are about $3000 which can have a big impact on the financial comfort for many households. So much so, that many people look forward to getting that return each year. Have you ever thought about how you…
Each and every day people receive payment for work that they perform. There is a large variety of ways that people can get paid for work that they completed. If you own your own company you have to make sure that all of your employees get paid. Frequently business owners do their own payroll at…
Millions of high school and college students hope that they are going to be able to get a summer job this year. Typically, there are plenty of summer jobs to go around for teenagers that are interested in working. The coronavirus pandemic has closed so many businesses this year that teenagers may have a hard…
There are lots of things that you need to know when running a business. When you first start out it can be managed quite well. When the business starts to expand and you have more employees, product and services you need to be able to expand with it. The expansion of a business means that…
While there are many people that look forward to tax season because they are pretty sure they are going to be getting a return, there are just as many people dreading it because they know they are going to owe taxes this year. If you didn’t pay enough in taxes to the IRS, you can…
