Getting an appointment with a CPA two weeks before tax deadline is as tough as getting into a Diane Von Furstenberg sample sale. You may end up spending of lot of money just to get “wrapped up”. [I made a funny, no?] Yes, you can do your taxes yourself. If you are organized, then it’s [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Chase Statement Poketo Letterpress Print for SALE!, originally uploaded by kate*. Have you ever thought of your credit card statement as a work of art? No. Neither have I until I [...]

Marci over at Shifting Careers has a great post about what is good to eat while working. Dietician Marissa Lippert has a list of ten foods that are good for you to fuel you body and brain.

Working Solo?! Check out WorkingSolo.com Saving Savvy?! Get a community involved in saving money by using Smarty Pig. Planning or promoting an event?  Pingg is way better than Evite.

Via Lifehacker, I found a link on Small Biz Survival which has some important checklists for small business. Since it’s tax time, you may want to check out the list below of deductible business expenses. clipped from www.smallbizsurvival.com Any reasonable and necessary expenses related to your business. So any money spent to connect with clients [...]

I provide a range of services from Quickbooks set-up which includes creating a Chart of Accounts that has income and expense relevant to a business. I also do bank and credit card reconciliations and monthly check-ups. My clients are diverse businesses which include creative services, media and retail. These are the clients I worked with [...]

This week I worked hard to come up with rhymes! Chunk: You have all this work experience and a CV on a piece of paper doesn’t do you justice. Check out VisualCV. Trunk: Author and career expert Penelope Trunk has a new website, Brazen Careerist. SlamDunk: NotchUp is a website that will pay you to [...]

Two of my worlds have collided on YouTube with TurboTax’s Tax Laugh Channel. It’s a video contest where comics or regular people can submit videos. The prize is 10,000 dollars and you get to open for comedian Jay Mohr. Taxes are so funny!

Need to convert expenses from one currency to another: Use Oanda. It’s been mad busy over in the Keeping Nickels colony with me being me both the queen bee and the worker bee.  I want to thank my clients, editors and partners in my projects for being patient as I continue to juggle and make [...]

I had a business lunch today at the U.N. and we talked about how LLCs have to be published which means a public notice of your business in two newspapers. This is a statute in New York, and I assume it is in most states as well.  Well, to get published you can use a [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }   Eliot Spitzer, Smiling, originally uploaded by azipaybarah. By now you have heard about “Eliot Spitzer’s Mess“. How does this relate to you and your business finances?! First and foremost, keep [...]

Yes, there’s another tax that your have to look out for in New York City, the Unincorporated Business Tax. Filing Information A New York City return must be filed by an unincorporated business if it meets either of the following criteria: It has a total gross income of more than $25,000 for a partnership or [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } kim ima from the Treats Truck, originally uploaded by nichellest. One of my clients is the Treats Truck, and it has been nominated for the Time Out New York Eat Out [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bill Gates and Jay Z, originally uploaded by niallkennedy. Right now, you have a successful small business and it is new and young, just like you. However in thirty years or [...]