Choosing a Business Structure

Choosing a Business Structure

When starting a business, it is important to consider the business structure.  There are many aspects to consider when choosing a business form including the industry, the nature of the business, legal factors, taxation, and other factors.  Let’s look at some of the...
Choosing a Business Structure

Are you Keeping up with your Reportable 1099 Payments?

Apart from the typical non-employee, individual whom you consider a subcontractor, are you aware of everyone who is in need of a 1099-Misc come January 31st of the subsequent year? The best practice you can do for yourself (and your accountant!) is to keep up with...
Choosing a Business Structure

Fall Back… Plan Ahead

It is scary to think that Halloween has come and gone and we now have less than two months left in the year.  Where has the time gone? The only thing more frightening than ghosts and haunted houses is ending the year without knowing your 2017 projected tax liability....
Choosing a Business Structure

Local Taxes – A Thorn in a Business Owner’s Side

A straightforward concept, you run your business fully aware that the federal government, and in most cases the state governments, will impose a tax on your annual activity.  However, what most business owners in Pennsylvania do not realize is that there is most...
Choosing a Business Structure

Long Hair, Don’t Care

It’s never too late to set new goals. All you need is the drive to do so, and, in the case of a career goal, a firm that believes in you as much as you believe in yourself. That’s what I learned from my lunch with Dave, small business manager here in Wayne. His story...
Choosing a Business Structure

“Don’t Change Your Life for Your Job”

And no, that doesn’t mean you should quit your job and wait until one comes along that allows you to sit on your couch watching Netflix for weeks on end. However, what it does mean is you should find a job that allows you to still do the things you enjoy outside of...
Choosing a Business Structure

Cool Kids Become Accountants

Hi all, my name is Christina, and I’m an accounting major, working on my Bachelor’s degree. I’ll be graduating from Drexel University in June of 2018, and I began interning at Stephano Slack about three and a half months ago. I’ve primarily been working on A&A...
Choosing a Business Structure

Puppy Power!

You know tax season can be, well, taxing. Stephano Slack’s Fun Committee (and how many accounting firms do you know with a fun committee?) came up with an innovative idea to help reduce stress – puppies! You see therapy dogs everywhere these days: in courtrooms...
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