As a Hampton Roads business owner, you carry the weight of your company on your shoulders. But the reward is this: when things go well – your profits are good, you’re meeting your business goals, you’re dreaming for the future, entrepreneurial FREEDOM is in the air – you have a joyful load to carry. But…
How are you holding up? If you haven’t yet done so, please do shoot me a quick note to let me know how your Hampton Roads business is managing. Depending on the situation, I have lots of ways to help … some of which I’ll give you details about today. I will continue to be…
With the business deadline (9/15) behind us, we’re in tax planning season. Though the IRS (and Congress) haven’t yet definitively made a statement about it (that we know of), here at Virginia Accounting Services we are operating according to the fact that the filing deadline is going to be April 15th, 2021 for 2020 taxes.…
If your Hampton Roads business sells a lot online, then we’re coming into the most wonderful time of the year. And this year, your customers will probably shop your website (and elsewhere online) EARLY in order to bypass all those supply-chain snafus. Cha-ching for you. Just don’t forget the taxman – and we don’t mean the IRS.…
Scrolling the 9/11 tributes in my social media and news feeds this past weekend served as an excellent reminder of how we all can bounce back from great difficulties. And the reminder seems especially poignant now as our nation (and Hampton Roads business owners like you) continue to recover from the economic fallout of the…
We’re keeping our powder dry over here at Virginia Accounting Services, as it relates to the “American Rescue Plan” proposed by Biden. There’s plenty of talk about it … but as of yet, nothing has passed. I prefer to live in the world of what *is* — instead of speculation. When something gets passed, I’ll have more…
Your car dashboard tells you how far you’ve driven and how much gas is left in the tank. Your smartphone has a button to tell you how much space you’ve got left after taking all those pictures of the kids. Your bank’s all too happy to show you a report on how your accounts are…
It seems like everywhere SMBs and retailers are short-staffed (and hiring). At the same time, with high inflation plaguing the country, other businesses are in the middle of layoffs. It seems as if these two realities would meet together, and establish an economic equilibrium … but from my (anecdotal) and limited analysis of the data,…
As you may have heard, “Labor Day” originated during the time of 7-day workweeks of 12-hour days, in the late 1800’s, as our country was in the throes of the Industrial Revolution. Times have certainly changed since then — and our economy is no longer driven by the manufacturing jobs of the past. Yes, now…
As COVID-19 snakes its way through the world, what’s becoming clear to me is that … well, not much is clear. From death rates (relying upon shaky data from totalitarian regimes), to spread rates, to proper precautions — you can find an article from a seemingly-authoritative source that will tell you one thing, and then…