For small employers, you don’t need a Fortune-500 budget to offer Fortune-level value. We've done the research to help you get and retain employees with your benefits program in 2026.

Whether you file a simple return or run a growing business, a shared vocabulary makes taxes and money decisions faster, clearer, and less stressful. Below is a quick-read glossary—plain English, no fluff—covering both personal and small-business concepts you’ll see on returns, in bookkeeping, and in everyday decisions.

Accurate timekeeping is often treated as a technical chore—another app to roll out or a setting to tweak. But at its core, timekeeping is a people process. It protects workers, keeps paychecks correct, and gives managers a reliable picture of staffing needs.

Getting payroll right isn’t flashy—but it is foundational. Reliable, compliant payroll protects cash flow, keeps employees’ trust, and reduces audit risk. Here are five practical improvements—rooted in current guidance from labor, tax, and payroll authorities—that you can implement with minimal technology and no jargon-required.

The IRS has issued a Fact Sheet that provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the implementation of Executive Order 14247, Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account.

Nonprofits are mission first—but mission needs money to move. Strong accounting gives your board, staff, and donors the confidence that every dollar is used as intended. Below are five field-tested tips to help your organization tighten controls, tell a clearer financial story, and spend more time on impact—not paperwork.

Small towns (≤5,000 citizens or less) run on trust. With lean staff, tight budgets, and neighbors holding you accountable, the way you handle money is as important as the services you provide. The good news: you don’t need a big-city finance department to get the fundamentals right.

Here’s a pragmatic playbook for tightening your accounts payable (AP) operations—designed for finance leaders who want stronger controls, cleaner processes, and fewer surprises. The emphasis is on proven internal-control mechanics, not flashy tech.

Small businesses are heading into 2026 with a mix of opportunity and pressure: consumers remain value-driven, compliance is shifting at the federal and state levels, and “do-more-with-less” operating models are hardening into the norm. We've got our insights and some helpful info — light on hype, heavy on what to watch, and what to do next.

We are seeing donor trends, management styles, and general opertions shift. Of course, shifts are nothing new in the world of fundraising and telling impactful stories. Taking what we see -- and don't' see -- we've got ten trends we see coming for 2026.

You've just started your company or maybe you are twenty years into business. One thing that is often overlooked as part of many business tax needs are corporate meeting minutes. Just like your local municipal government, your business is required by law to keep written records of decisions made during your yearly - yes, yearly - corporate meeting.

Congress signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law on July 4, 2025. The law reshapes several business-tax rules that will show up in the 2025 filing season and beyond. Here’s a plain-English walkthrough for common business return types—what changed, why it matters, and what to consider before you file.

If you use QuickBooks today, the current wave of updates is designed to do one thing: give you back time. The latest tools focus on automating routine tasks, tightening controls so the right people see the right data, and making day-to-day decisions faster. Here’s a plain-English tour of the improvements that will make the biggest difference in your business.

What is The Public Policy Doctrine? Why does that matter to my small business?

Consistent with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s March 2, 2025 announcement, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing an interim final rule that removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act.

Summer is official here, and that means your 100% parent-owned sole-proprietorship or partnership may be able to hire your children to help them earn some summer fun money and help your company.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has made minor changes to Form I‑9, Employment Eligibility Verification , to align with...

Excess Business Loss Limitation Your overall business losses may be limited as you cannot deduct an excess business loss in the current year. An excess business loss is the amount by which your total deductions from all of your trades or businesses are more than your gross income or gains from all of your trades or businesses, plus a threshold amount. For 2025, the threshold amount is $313,000 ($626,000 if Married Filing Jointly). Any disallowed excess business loss is treate

For over a decade, we've been fielding a wide array of questions here at The Springer Company. What's become clear is that many small, family-owned businesses face similar challenges. While each business is unique, they often share more in common than you might expect. Question 1: My tax return shows I made money. Why don't I see that in my bank account? It depends on so many factors. While cash business tax returns should "match" the profit or loss against the same amount of

While we'd love to tell you how to help employees reach 88 mph to generate the 1.21 jigowatts needed to travel back to the future, this...