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A Beginner's Guide to Bookkeeping

If you’re a new business owner, you might not remember the last night you slept more than four or five hours. Your days may be filled with developing marketing strategies, screening potential employees and trying to figure out how to set up a bookkeeping system. If working with numbers isn’t your favorite pastime, the latter activity may be posing quite a challenge. If you can relate to this common scenario that new entrepreneurs face, the following beginner’s guide to bookkeeping might calm your frayed nerves and set you on the right course.

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Why Customer Lifetime Value Matters For Your Business

Calculating customer lifetime value (CLV) gives you insight on how much to spend on new client acquisition. Learn more.

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Quickbooks Tip: Setting Up Sales Tax in QuickBooks Online

Sales tax is one of the more complicated concepts supported by QuickBooks Online.

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Education Tax Credit Nuances. Don't Leave Money on the Table.

There are actually two higher-education tax credits. The American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) provides up to $2,500 worth of credit for each student, 40% of which is refundable. The credit is equal to 100% of the first $2,000 of college tuition and qualified expenses and 25% of the next $2,000. The AOTC only applies to the first 4 years of post-secondary education.

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You May Be Able to Sell Profitable Stocks Without Paying Any Tax

Taxpayers whose top marginal tax bracket is lower than 25% enjoy a long-term capital gain tax rate of zero. Yes, you read correctly: the tax on any long-term capital gains for taxpayers within the 10% or 15% tax bracket is zero! This can provide you with the opportunity to sell some of your winner stocks and pay no tax on the resulting gain. Long-term capital gains apply to stocks and other capital assets you have owned for a year and a day or longer.

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