Enhancing Accuracy with a Month-End Close Checklist: Tips for Tech CFOs
Founders and finance teams want to keep a finger on the pulse of the company’s health. With a month-end close, they get the detailed look they need to evaluate their runway, revenue trends, and more. Plus, this regular step ensures that the financial reports investors...
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...
Finding the Ideal Financial Tech Stack for Your Tech Company
The latest tech tools can make work easier, and that’s particularly true when it comes to your finances. Financial technology — or fintech, for short — automates time-consuming tasks like categorizing expenses. It can help you get the reporting you need to make...
The Ultimate Month-End Close Checklist for Tech Companies
Undertaking a month-end close serves your tech company in a myriad of ways. First, it ensures accuracy in your books. If you’re burning through your runway faster than expected, this regular check-in clues you into the issue early. Secondly, it gives you a clear view...
Wave vs. QuickBooks Online: Comparing Two Leading Accounting Softwares
There’s absolutely no reason to manually manage your accounting. Today’s accounting software can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you, from compiling all of your transactions into a single place to creating key financial reports. In fact, the focus shouldn’t be on...
What is a 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast?
When you’re getting into financial forecasting, you want to find the balance. Long-term forecasting is key, but if you only focus on the future, you risk burning through your runway too quickly and never making it there. Managing your weekly cash flow matters, too,...
4 Bookkeeping Tips for Your Tech Company
Earlier this year, we teed up some accounting tips to help set you up for success. Bookkeeping tips, then, might seem a little redundant. But there’s a key difference. Accounting requires some level of analysis of your company’s financial situation. Bookkeeping...
5 Things to Know Before Working in Finance
If you want to make money, it helps to be where the money is. That’s a big part of the draw to a career in finance. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median annual wage for a person working in business and finance is $76,850, notably more than the...
What is VC Math & How Does It Impact Your Company?
If you’re planning to explore venture capital (VC) funding, it’s helpful to understand how VC firms make their money. A lot of founders operate under the assumption that every project a venture capital group funds needs to turn a profit. Actually, though, most firms...
Artificial Intelligence & Accounting
On November 14, Akshay Shrimanker of Shay CPA P.C. participated in a panel discussion about accounting and artificial intelligence hosted by Michael Guthammar inside the offices of 24SevenOffice. The panel also included 24SevenOffice CEO Stian Rustad and Westmusa Inc....
Converting From an LLC to a C-corp: Tax Implications to Consider
Plenty of small businesses operate as a limited liability company (LLC) when they first set up shop. In fact, a big portion of LLCs operate as single-member companies with a sole owner. This sounds appealing in the beginning because LLCs are easy to establish, and...
What is a Cap Table? How Does It Impact My Financials?
When you first launched your startup, it was probably exclusively yours and your co-founder(s). But as you fundraise, you give up equity in exchange for the money you need. To make it easy to keep a clear eye on what’s going on with any shareholder’s equity, including...
Creating Your Financial Policies and Procedures Manual
When you think about things you need to build for your startup, it’s probably a long list. And you might be hesitant to add anything to it. But there are a couple of areas where putting in some extra work now pays off in spades down the road. A Financial Policies and...
Gusto vs. Justworks: A Closer Look
Building a business has changed — and in a way that can make your life easier. Thanks to the latest software tools, it’s getting simpler to do things that used to be a huge time suck, like filing payroll and tracking employee work hours. Before you can start wielding...
PEO vs. Payroll Company: What Should My Tech Company Choose?
When your startup is in its early stages, it makes sense to outsource. You might hire a fractional CFO, and you’ll likely hire an accounting firm. You may also want to explore outsourcing a lot of the key functions of a human resources (HR) department. Fortunately,...
Best Practices for Your Tech Company’s Expense Policy
When you’re an agile startup, allowing your employees to expense items and ask for reimbursement can give you a level of flexibility that you probably need. But it can also add a layer of complexity that you probably don’t need. That’s especially true if you don’t...
How Gen-Z Is Changing the Startup Culture
As a CPA firm, we get a unique look into a lot of businesses. We get to see behind the curtain and analyze the inner workings. As we offer accounting services to a wide variety of startups, we start to see trends and commonalities emerge. That’s been especially...
Brex vs. Ramp – What’s Best for Your Tech Company?
If you’re looking for a solution to power your startup’s fintech stack, we’ve got good news. Relatively new players in the game bring streamlined options paired with better insights to help power your growth. You might have heard of two of the leaders: Ramp and Brex....
How Should Your Tech Company Respond to Inflation
By: Kacie Goff In the 70s and 80s, when inflation was closer to a fairly staggering 10% here in the U.S., tech companies were relatively rare. It’s no surprise. The Great Inflation didn’t create an ideal space for innovation, certainly. Businesses had a tough road to...
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Tax Season 2023: Get Your Books Ready
The start of a new year always feels fresh. You’re looking ahead and probably getting excited about everything your startup will accomplish in 2023. Don’t forget to look behind you, though. Even as you vision-cast for the year ahead, you need to wrap up the year...
DELAWARE ANNUAL FILING – 2023
The Delaware Annual Filing is due on March 1st, just 3 weeks away. So make sure to be on the lookout for an email from your registered agent in Delaware. You can sometimes use their portal to file an entire annual report. You will need your file number, which you can...
1099 + Other Year-end Reporting Tips for Your Tech Startup – 2023
Founders, for 2022, the threshold to issue a 1099-NEC remains $600 for payments made in the calendar year 2022. You must issue a 1099-NEC to the following: Services performed by someone who is not your employee (including parts/materials) – (box 1) Payments to an...
Founders – Get Huge Tax Breaks by acting now!
Founders - check out our tips below that can save your Startup thousands of dollars in Income Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Sales Taxes, and foreign taxes. R&D Tax Credits: Did you know that if your startup conducts R&D activities it can qualify for up to $500,000 in...
What is an 83(b) election?
As a founder, you get one of the biggest perks through equity in your company. In your early days, you probably aren’t raking in a huge salary or taking sizable owner draws. But you can still be padding your pockets through your shares in your company. While these...
Converting From an LLC to a C-corp: Tax Implications to Consider
Plenty of small businesses operate as a limited liability company (LLC) when they first set up shop. In fact, a big portion of LLCs operate as single-member companies with a sole owner. This sounds appealing in the beginning because LLCs are easy to establish, and...
Startup Guide to California Franchise Tax and R&D Tax Credit
When you open a business in California, there’s one agency with which you need to get familiar pretty fast: the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB). You might even want to bookmark that page. As you establish your business in the Golden State, you’re going to be...
Tax Benefits for Founders: Qualifying Small Business Stock (QSBS)
As a founder, you’re probably going to issue yourself a significant number of shares in your company. The goal there, of course, is to make some (ideally, a large amount) of money down the road. But the amount you’ll be able to pocket hinges on how you handle your...
Tax Deductions for Startups
By Kacie Goff As you work to scale your startup, the old adage rings true: cash is king. The more cash you can have on hand, the easier it is to build your best product and launch into new opportunities. And tax deductions give you an excellent way to maximize your...
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