Another tax season has peaked and like many professionals who prepare taxes, it's a time where we take a breath and get some much needed rest.  For all our tax clients, as well as ongoing bookkeeping clients, we'd like to take this opportunity to say "Thank You" for putting your trust in us to prepare your tax returns and work on your books on an ongoing basis.  We look forward to continuing to serve you into the 2015 tax season and beyond!

If you are a business owner you already realize some of the benefits of being your own boss. But with those benefits also come the large responsibilities of being profitable and successful. It is often a fun and exciting feeling when you come up with a new idea for a product to sell or a service to offer, knowing and feeling that it could be the next great thing that sets you apart from other businesses. Now before you go and launch a new line, or provide a new service it's time to be a business owner, take a step back and analyze this hip new idea and decide if it is really the direction in which you want to move.

It all starts with a solid plan. Now your new idea may in fact be the next step for your business, but you need to evaluate it from all sides. Doing this will help to prevent your new idea from potentially damaging your reputation or simply moving forward with an idea that you will soon look back on and realize that it might not have been the right step.

So once you have found the next best thing for you and your business, take some time to step back, put on the owners hat and evaluate the idea answering the following questions to help ensure your success.