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What To Do If Your Startup Gets Audited

What To Do If Your Startup Gets Audited

Getting an audit notice from a tax authority is enough to stop most founders in their tracks. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve done anything wrong, though.  While things like high deductions can definitely trigger an audit, it’s also possible to get chosen at...

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Shay CPA’s 3rd Annual Company NYC Retreat Recap

Shay CPA’s 3rd Annual Company NYC Retreat Recap

This year, Shay CPA hosted its third annual company retreat in the heart of New York City, an event packed with learning, connection, and celebration. From engaging presentations to immersive team-building workshops and a fun-filled final day, the retreat offered our...

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Changing Your Fiscal Year for Your Tech Company

Changing Your Fiscal Year for Your Tech Company

The IRS wants to see your books in twelve-month batches. That doesn’t mean you have to file your tax return based on the calendar year, though. If a January 1 start and a December 31 close doesn’t make sense for your business, you have the option to change to a fiscal...

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Budgeting for 2024 for Your Tech Company

Budgeting for 2024 for Your Tech Company

Think back to the earliest days of your startup. What started off as nothing more than an idea bloomed into a company. How did that happen? To a large extent, you can probably chalk it up to careful planning followed by diligent execution. With the new year about to...

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2023 Chart of Accounts for Tech Founders

2023 Chart of Accounts for Tech Founders

When compared to traditional small businesses, early-stage technology startups have nuances that they need to consider when putting together their financial statements and chart of accounts. Often, I find that entrepreneurs have used a financial model to assist them...

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Revenue Recognition for SaaS Companies

Revenue Recognition for SaaS Companies

Founders, as you embark on your journey of starting your SaaS-based business, one thing that will come up time and time again will be the concept of “revenue recognition.” That, of course, begs the question: what is revenue recognition?  In short, it’s the process of...

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Startups – What’s your burn rate?

Startups – What’s your burn rate?

It might be time to update the old adage. Maybe it’s not cash that’s king, but cash flow. One study conducted by U.S. Bank concluded that 82% of business failures can be chalked up to bad cash management.  When your startup’s in its early days, it probably isn’t...

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Transfer Pricing Basics for Tech Companies

Transfer Pricing Basics for Tech Companies

As an early-stage tech company, expanding your operations overseas can provide access to new markets and tap into a global talent pool. However, hiring software developers and engineers in foreign countries requires having a transfer pricing agreement in place.  ...

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What are SAFE Agreements?

What are SAFE Agreements?

A relatively new tool has come into founders’ hands: simple agreements for future equity, or SAFEs. But are they, as the name suggests, simple? Not necessarily.  They’re still worth wrapping your head around, though, because SAFEs could give you a way to get the...

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What are Convertible Notes?

What are Convertible Notes?

Finding investors for your early-stage startup can feel particularly challenging. When you’re working with what might amount to little more than a good idea and a basic product, it’s hard to quantify. And yet, so much of startup financing hinges on getting a valuation...

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Meet Our Staff: Megan Mahlstadt

Meet Our Staff: Megan Mahlstadt

In case you missed it, we’ve been using our blog page to introduce you to our ShayCPA team members. As we continue growing, it gives us an excellent opportunity to make sure you know the people who might be answering your email or phone call. Plus, it’s a chance to...

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Meet Our Staff: Elias Bardis

Meet Our Staff: Elias Bardis

As our ShayCPA team grows, we've had the opportunity to bring some fantastic talent onboard. Elias is no exception. We'd like to give you the chance to get to know him a little better in our latest edition of the Meet Our Staff feature.  Elias joined us at the very...

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Meet Our Staff: Grace Tsou

Meet Our Staff: Grace Tsou

Lots of kids dread going to math class — but Grace has always been different. She’s had what she calls an “amicable relationship” with numbers since her youth. That made her a perfect fit for a career in accounting.  As our longest-tenured staff accountant here at...

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Meet Our Staff: Nina Lopez-Ortiz

Meet Our Staff: Nina Lopez-Ortiz

Here at ShayCPA, we strive to deliver a personalized experience. We know that finances are a source of stress for a lot of tech startup founders, and we want to help alleviate that with our dedicated expertise and our friendly approach. With that in mind, we want to...

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Our Team is Bill.com Certified

Our Team is Bill.com Certified

Let SHAY CPA P.C. help your startup with its A/P and A/R process. Each of our accounting staff members is certified in using Bill.com which helps set up a process for payments. This is great for companies that need a simple process for bill-pay/receivables management,...

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Meet Our Team

Meet Our Team

In my three years of experience at Shay CPA, I’ve worked with many different tech companies and founders, from newly formed start-up companies to large publicly traded corporations. Working with these different companies allowed me to observe and learn about the tech...

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6 Year-End Tax Planning Tips for 2023

6 Year-End Tax Planning Tips for 2023

As the year wraps up, it’s time to start making that list and checking it twice. No, it’s not your holiday gift list. It’s your year-end tax planning to-dos.  Taking some time to get yourself sorted could mean thousands of dollars of savings between your startup’s...

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Passing the Four-Part R&D Tax Credit Test

Passing the Four-Part R&D Tax Credit Test

Who wouldn’t want to cut their tax bill by as much as $500,000?  It’s no surprise, then, that a lot of companies — especially startups trying to extend their runway as much as possible — explore the R&D tax credit. Technically called the Credit for Increasing...

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Don’t Let New York’s Franchise Tax Sneak Up On You

Don’t Let New York’s Franchise Tax Sneak Up On You

When you think about taxes, you probably directly associate the money that goes out to tax authorities with the money that’s come in. Take sales tax as an example. The more you sell, the more you’re going to pay. Income tax isn’t so different: the more you earn, the...

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2023 Tech Company Tax Tips

2023 Tech Company Tax Tips

Does thinking about filing your taxes put some tension on your shoulders? If so, it’s probably because you’ve had a less-than-ideal filing experience in the past. And in most cases, those unwelcome filing instances come from surprises.  Or you might be feeling...

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What are Convertible Notes?

What are Convertible Notes?

Finding investors for your early-stage startup can feel particularly challenging. When you’re working with what might amount to little more than a good idea and a basic product, it’s hard to quantify. And yet, so much of startup financing hinges on getting a valuation...

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Mosaic vs. Causal: FP&A Apps Worth a Look

Mosaic vs. Causal: FP&A Apps Worth a Look

When you think about things that make or break a startup, a lot probably comes to mind. From strategic thinking to runway, your burgeoning company needs a lot of things to go right in order to thrive.  The good and bad news is that a lot of those factors interplay. If...

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COGS in SaaS: Understanding Cost of Goods Sold

COGS in SaaS: Understanding Cost of Goods Sold

Unlike e-commerce businesses and manufacturers, software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies usually don’t have inventory in the traditional sense. Instead, modern software is delivered to customers through the rental of servers and cloud storage services, where the...

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When and How to Raise a Series A

When and How to Raise a Series A

You’re past seed-stage funding, but unless your startup is particularly lucky, that doesn’t mean you’re past needing outside investing to continue your growth. Sure, some businesses can bootstrap. But if you’ve got a vision that you want to bring to life on any kind...

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What is Financial Due Diligence?

What is Financial Due Diligence?

When you’re trying to get people excited about your idea, it’s tempting to want to gild the lily. But startup founders should never put themselves in a position where they’ve overpromised only to underdeliver. It can — and almost always will — catch up to you because...

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What are Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC)? Organic vs. Paid

What are Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC)? Organic vs. Paid

In an ideal world, your startup’s product or service would be so wow-worthy that people would be falling over themselves to buy it. And you might have some cases of that. But it’s no way to build a business. If it was, sales and marketing departments wouldn’t exist. ...

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What is a Fractional CFO?

What is a Fractional CFO?

A lot of pieces make up a successful startup: a great idea, an innovative team, willing investors — the list goes on. But at the end of the day, there’s one key component that can make or break everything else: your finances.  The way your organization manages its...

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Your Guide to 2022 R&D Tax Credits

Your Guide to 2022 R&D Tax Credits

As a startup founder, you’re trying to keep as much money inside your business as possible. If you’re not capitalizing on the federal research tax credit — commonly called the R&D tax credit — you could be missing out in a major way here. This credit lets you...

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Your Guide to R&D Tax Credits

Your Guide to R&D Tax Credits

By: Kacie Goff Research and development (R&D) can help boost not just an individual business’s profitability, but also the economy around them. Dedicated R&D presents the opportunity to fine-tune innovations, allowing companies to forge new ground — and do so...

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