What You Should Know About the QBO Mobile App

QuickBooks Online

The QBO mobile app lacks some features found in the browser-based version, but it provides mobile access to tools you may want on the road. First, it’s free (except for your mobile data plan costs). Second, it’s good. And the QBO mobile app offers more functionality than you might expect. Available for iOS and Android smartphones and…

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Are You Aware Of Your Healthcare Reporting Requirements?

Healthcare Reporting Requirements

If you’re an applicable large employer, there may be healthcare reporting requirements that will impact your business. You may be required to file a new tax form this month. Form 1095-C, Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage, is required for each full-time employee. The form discloses information on the group health insurance coverage you provide.…

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An Introduction to the QuickBooks Online Customer Page

QuickBooks Online

Your customers are the heartbeat of your business. QuickBooks Online helps you keep them happy. Do you remember how you used to keep track of information about your customers before you started using a computer for your accounting? A file folder containing paper transaction forms and other communications? A card in your Rolodex? A list…

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Portability Can Simplify Estate Planning

Final IRS regulations will help married couples pass more estate assets to heirs without creating complicated trusts. The “portability” rules allow surviving spouses to retain the unused portion of a deceased husband or wife’s estate exemption – if the rules are followed. Here’s what you need to know. The estate tax exemption for 2015 is…

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Dana McGuffin CPA Wins Intuit Firm of the Future Award!

We are excited to announce that Dana McGuffin CPA has been named in the top 20 Accounting Firms in the US as a Firm of the Future by Intuit! As you know, we are SO different from many accounting firms in that we utilize cloud technologies, embrace a Results-Only Work Environment, engage with people using social platforms, and…

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Identity Theft – What To Do If It Happens to You!

Tax identity theft once again topped the IRS list of tax scams for 2015. Here’s what you need to know if it happens to you. The warning signs. Have you gotten a tax bill you weren’t expecting based on income you never received? Has your return been rejected or your refund delayed? These unanticipated incidents…

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Dana McGuffin CPA Voted Best CPA for 2014 & 2015 by LIVING Magazine

We are excited to announce that Dana McGuffin CPA won the BEST OF READER’S CHOICE AWARD for BEST CPA in LIVING magazine for the second year in a row! Thank you, to our friends of the firm, clients, and LIVING magazine readers for voting Dana McGuffin CPA Best CPA in Northeast Tarrant county! Voting for…

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Post 3 of 5: The Key Elements of Fraud

Key Elements of Fraud

Let’s continue our discussion on fraud. (For our 2nd Post on fraud with recent examples we’ve seen, click here.) FRAUD \ noun\ ‘fröd\ Definition of FRAUD 1a: DECEIT, TRICKERY; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right. In other words, fraud…

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