Securing a business loan can be essential for growth, expansion, or simply keeping operations running smoothly. However, being rejected for financing can be frustrating and damaging to your credit and confidence. If you're preparing to apply for a business loan, here are 7 ways to boost your chances of approval and avoid the most common pitfalls that lead to rejection.

In today’s fast-paced financial environment, Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) face increasing demands from clients who expect strategic advice, tax planning, and financial analysis. However, one critical but time-consuming function, bookkeeping, often stands in the way of scaling their business and delivering higher-value services

In today’s evolving financial landscape, commercial lenders face increasing competition, tighter regulations, and borrowers that are more sophisticated. The pressure to close more loans has never been greater.

Side Job. Side Gig. Side Business. Endeavor. All have been used to mean the same thing: Side Hustle. The term side hustle is a recent one, beginning with the advent of the internet. It is, by far, the most used term for a person with a day job that has started his or her own business.

Every business wants to increase profit as much as possible. We are in business to make money. For you non-accounting types, profit is simply revenue (sales) less expenses. Putting my Captain Obvious hat on, there are two ways to increase profit: increase revenue or decrease expenses, or some combination of both. This post focuses on one big tip to help you

It’s the question many business owners often find themselves asking. I have clients. I provide quality services. I sell good products that consumers want. But I never seem to have any money. Where does it all go? A successful business cycle looks something like this: create revenues=> translate those revenues into earnings=> convert those earnings into cash flow. Rinse and repeat. Seems simple, but obviously isn’t. Where does it all go wrong?

If you like most small businesses, yours probably isn’t where you want to be.

It’s one of the biggest mystery-of-life questions: Can money buy happiness? A significant margin of anyone surveyed will emphatically say...

One of the biggest challenges facing small business owners, especially new ones, is selling products or getting clients. No big...

I’ve been doing bookkeeping for some time now, and I’ve seen my share of messy books that required extensive, and costly, cleanups. One...