Simple in Six – Using Excel Pivot Tables to analyze sales
Excel expert Tom Fragale shows you how to use Pivot Tables to analyze your sales.
Read MoreThe other side of the coin
After 172 posts and 81 pages written and published on our site, nothing has drawn the reaction of this post entitled Who pays the Federal Income Tax. Given that the stats quoted were from the IRS, you’d think that no one could argue about an empirical fact (the top 10% pay over 70% of…
Read MoreTimeline of Obamacare changes – It’s not an easy task
Need to know when the Obamacare provisions may effect your business? Here’s the answer!
Read MoreUploading your data with SCA secure
With our encrypted portals uploading your data couldn’t be much safer or much easier. Have a look as one of our clients uploads tax information to us. It’s safe, quick, and easy! Steps demonstrated in the video Login Click on File Exchange in left sidebar Click on the Upload Data folder Click the Upload icon…
Read MoreExecutive Summary of Timeline for Obamacare provisions
Editor’s Note: There have been substantial changes in the ACA law since we published this post. See our current newsletter for updated information. The Cliff Notes version (detailed explanation below) 2010 – 2011 Small business tax credit Adult dependent insurance coverage Return information disclosure Restrictions on use of HSA and FSA funds 2012 Information reporting…
Read MoreCan the “Fonz” drive in reverse?
Henry Winkler (a/k/a “The Fonz” on the Happy Days TV series) can be currently seen on television advertising for senior citizens to sign up for a reverse mortgage. Before you can make a financial decision on anything, you need to know: How does it work, and How does it help (or hurt) me financially? How…
Read MoreTutorial of Tax-Sheltered Savings Plans for 2014
Some of the most powerful planning tools are the tax-sheltered savings plans available to almost every business. But these tools won’t help you if you don’t know how they work. We’ve published an executive summary for you below. If you’d like to pay less tax and increase your retirement fund, review the chart below. We…
Read MoreWhat our email footer really means!
IRS Circular 230 Disclosure – What Does all the legalese really mean? Our SCA team prides itself in looking after each client’s tax affairs as if they were our own. We leave no tax deduction aside you’re legally entitled to take. Reliance on professional advice has usually been the only thing required…
Read MoreSimple in Six – Make your Pivot Tables do more
As useful as Excel Pivot Tables can be (see this post on creating pivot tables), sometimes you need to perform calculations on the data that’s inside the table. The normal Excel functions don’t work well for this, but our friend Tom Fragale show us how to force specific calculations on the data inside the Pivot…
Read MoreWhen we say it’s secure – we mean it!
We talk a lot about the importance of keeping your data secure. Three years ago we offered our SCA secure portals which use a transparent 256bit encryption. The problem is that most of us don’t take our computer with us when we visit our banker or stockbroker. To fix this inconvenience for our clients, we’ve…
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