Qualifying Offices Can Deduct Up to $1,500 Per Year Michael Cohn at Accounting Today reports that The Internal Revenue Service plans to introduce a simplified way for small business owners and home-based employees to claim the home office tax deduction.
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Redefining the Value of Appraisals, and Helping Clients Understand Paul R. Hyde discusses how appraisals come in a variety of configurations based on client needs. Here are tips on how to balance these conflicting demands, and how best to set the expectation for work in valuation.
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“It Got a Bit Ugly” Sarah E. Needleman at the WSJ Small Business Blog reports: Ten months after co-founding a communications firm in 2008, Tami Hausman asked her business partner to meet at a local Starbucks. Things weren’t working out, Ms. Hausman says, and she wanted to run the New York company on her own.
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Authors of New Book Describe How Ability to Bring in New, High-Quality, Well-Paying Clients Consistently is Key Bruce H. Rogers and Russ Alan Prince are the co-authors of the just published book Profitable Brilliance: How Professional Service Firms Become Thought Leaders. At Forbes, the authors detail how a strong referral strategy is critical to a profitable, growing business, and that one of the best ways to build a referral network is by establishing yourself as a thought leader:
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Key Strategies Include Building Competitive Intelligence, Reading Trade Media, Innovation and Response to Trends, and More. Bruce Marcus at CPA Trendlines offers a guide to trend-spotting for accountants:
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. . . or at least so opines Edi Osborne, of Mentor Plus, at CPA Trendlines. She throws in a third promise you’ve probably heard but we couldn’t fit on the subject line: “No Surprise Billing. Ever.” More: What do these three tag lines have in common? Predictability. Dominoes and Fed Ex built their entire business model on making (and keeping) an uncomplicated predictability promise to the customer. Dominoes and Fed Ex looked at their marketplace and asked one simple question, “What is your number-one frustration in dealing with pizza and package delivery?” Those frustrations were dissected and turned…