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Archive for July, 2008

Outsourcing in CPA Firms

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

CPA firms serving small businesses have been outsourcing tax and other general accounting services for some time. Now these CPA firms are considering outsource providers for other higher-value accounting services. CPA firms can leverage their relationship with small businesses and help them in outsourcing their higher value accounting projects. For example projects like real-time accounts integration needs process knowledge specific to a small business, IT skills, and accounting process standardization skills. CPA firms may not have all the skills needed for the real-time account integration projects. They can act as a liaison between the small business owners and outsource providers in outsourcing real-time account integration projects.

CPA firms that partner with outsource providers gain a competitive advantage over those that don’t. By aligning with an accounting outsource provider, an accounting firm can virtually tap into several different small business markets without making a heavy investment of time and capital. This means the CPA firm minimizes its risk while maximizing its potential for significant market gain. Currently many small CPA firms are not embracing these types of projects for their small business customers, but this trend is happing in several big accounting firms. As the need increases for accounting integration projects in small businesses, more small business focused CPA firms will start partnering with accounting outsource providers.

Real Estate, Mortgage & Loan Calculators

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

The real estate calculators and mortgage calculators and business calculators created on Realestate-calc.com were developed to aid the small to intermediate investor in numerically understanding the financial implications of owning real estate.

The Real Estate Calculators estimate the tax consequences of selling real property. The Mortgage Calculators will calculate your monthly mortgage payment or compare two amortizing loans. The Business Calculators were derived from several business plans which were individually prepared for numerous multi billion dollar companies.

The calculators on Realestate-calc.com are set up specifically to allow the user the ability to focus on how each of the above factors may affect the potential economic benefit of refinancing an existing loan, and help take the user step by step through the process of understanding the application of these factors.