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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Health Costs on His Mind, Small Factory Owner Looks for Ways to Cope With New Law Emily Maltby and Sarah E. Needleman at The Wall Street Journal talk with a small business owner outside of Chicago who’s considering ways to manage growth, preserve profit, and comply with the new healthcare law. Automation Systems, with with sales of about $1.6 million for 2012, currently employs 40 full-time workers, mostly low-paid employees who monitor the factory equipment. If sales were to continue to rise, the plant could, conceivably, employ 50 full-time workers in 2014. Under the new health-care law, the Affordable Care Act,…
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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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Chart: The Cost of Buying Small Business Companies Scott Shane at Small Business Trends reports: Many people think buying a business is expensive. But, actually, the typical private company sells at a low price. According to BIZCOMPS, Business Valuation’s data base of private company sales, the median price of the 12,022 companies sold since 1995 on which Business Valuation has data was $166,000, less than half of one year’s revenue. As the chart below shows, only 5.8 percent of private businesses sold for more than $1 million. Nearly two-thirds sold for less than $250,000. Why does it cost so little to…