by Leif Jensen | Jun 27, 2017 | General |
Recently in a conversation with one of our clients, I asked about their production capacity. Do they know when they would need to turn down business or start the second shift? It turns out that they don’t have any hard or fast rules for this option. But they...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 26, 2017 | General |
I was recently meeting with the owner of a business, after spending a couple of hours drilling down on their numbers looking for costs to cut. They are currently going through a cash crunch and the immediate future is not looking promising. Historically their fourth...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 21, 2017 | General |
You know by now that most of the big names in search engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo – track your search history and build profiles on you, serving different results based on your search history. You may want to try one of the alternative search engines if you’re tired...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 20, 2017 | General |
How often are you cleaning the cookies out of your computer? How many know what cookies are? Cookies are small bits of computer code that are temporarily installed on your computer from the websites you visit. Some cookies track all of the websites you...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 19, 2017 | General |
Do you utilize a password manager? Should you? A password manager offers a better way to create a strong, yet easy to remember passphrase for use with encryption and security programs. Weak passwords and passphrases are one of the most common flaws in...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 14, 2017 | General |
IRS and Bankruptcy Case In this case, taxes shown on IRS-prepared late returns are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. This is so, even when the taxpayer later files the overdue returns, according to the court. When a man failed to timely file his...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 13, 2017 | General |
The IRS is again attempting to notify employers that have outsourced payroll tax duties remain liable for unpaid taxes. Even if the payroll taxes are taken by the payroll agents who then abscond with the employment taxes or fail to make the required deposits...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 12, 2017 | General |
The Service’s private debt-collection program started up just last April. Surprise there are some lawmakers are calling for its demise. The 2015 statute ordered the agency to turn over many inactive receivables to private debt collectors in an effort to recoup...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 7, 2017 | General |
I was reading an article recently that was stating that the largest single cause for startup failures (more than 40% of the cases) is the lack of a market for the product. Or in other words lack of customers or clients. I know big shock. You can have the world’s...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 6, 2017 | General |
I was discussing investment strategies with one of my kids and I was attempting to explain the analytics that I encourage my clients to follow, is similar to how publically traded companies are analyzed. Broken down into the simplest terms they follow this...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 5, 2017 | General |
Recently we had an opportunity to meet with a prospective client. When it came time to schedule the initial meeting we offered to meet with them in their office or ours. This apparently took they slightly aback, not one else offer to meet them at their location....
by Leif Jensen | May 31, 2017 | General |
Remember when you started shifting your investments from a Traditional IRA to a Roth IRS, or converted from one to another. You probably did not monitor your Traditional losses that closely. One because they were paid for with before tax dollars and two, you...
by Leif Jensen | May 30, 2017 | General |
Employers must start making decisions on health care plans for 2018 with the knowledge that, for now at least, Obamacare is still the law of the land. The law includes the so-called Cadillac tax on high-cost plans, a 40% excise tax on plans costing at least...
by Leif Jensen | May 29, 2017 | General |
In my dealing with clients the subject of employees comes up a lot. Beyond the basic payroll and HR components employees have a tremendous impact on your business. I have clients who view their employees as expenses plain and simple. They know that every...
by Leif Jensen | May 25, 2017 | General |
Granted I have written on this topic before, but it now looks like Edward S. Lampert has Sears swirling th drain. The stock is trading is trading below $8 per share. But apparently the media is too blame and not the incompetency’s of Lambert. Believing...
by Leif Jensen | May 24, 2017 | General |
I was watching the TV show “Billions” specifically the episode “Yumtime”. The main character Axelrod, bought a 4.9% stake in a publically traded business. This business was being run by the third generation of the family. Axelrod was dissatisfied by the...
by Leif Jensen | May 23, 2017 | General |
During my career I have run into entrepreneurs that fall into roughly five different categories. First there are those who have their own ideas and plan to build their business from the ground up. This is the way I started my business. The second...
by Leif Jensen | May 22, 2017 | General |
About a month ago I was delivering a client’s return to the Shiller Park offices of the IRS. I was doing this because the client had not filed corporate of personal returns for a few years and I wanted to ensure that the first years was filed immediately upon...
by Leif Jensen | May 17, 2017 | Case Study |
While networking, I have come across a few entrepreneurs that had businesses and didn’t have businesses. Yes, I know clear as mud. What they had set up were passive businesses in which the success of the business was put into the hands of others to be the...
by Leif Jensen | May 17, 2017 | General |
I have a client experiencing difficulties with their bank. Their relationship to their bank was testy at times, but then the bank was absorbed by another and things just went from bad to worse. The bank now insists on a 48 hour hold on all deposits, even if...
