Most payroll software looks simple when you imagine one company using it. There is one employer, one set of employees, one payroll schedule and one management team. Even if that…
Most accounting firms do not become full-service practices overnight. They grow into that role gradually. A small CPA office may start with tax preparation, add bookkeeping because clients keep asking…
From the outside, outsourced payroll can look almost suspiciously simple. A business owner sends information to the accountant, payday arrives and employees see the expected numbers. If the accountant also…
The accounting business has a scaling problem that does not get much attention outside the profession. Every new client is good news, but every new client also creates more deadlines,…
For decades, the public image of a small accounting firm was easy to understand. Clients appeared around tax season, handed over documents, answered a few questions and waited for the…
A small business can run payroll internally for years without thinking much about whether the arrangement is efficient. Someone in the office collects hours, another person checks the numbers, the…
A paycheck may look like a simple transaction, but payroll is really a chain of data moving between several people and systems. The employer knows who worked and what changed.…
Most small-business owners do not want another software subscription. They already have enough of them. There is software for scheduling, banking, inventory, customer management, email, billing and whatever else keeps…
When a small business says that its accountant “handles payroll,” that sentence hides a surprising amount of infrastructure. Someone still has to organize employee information, process recurring payroll cycles, maintain…
A traditional accounting firm can have a strange business model. For several months of the year the phones do not stop, tax returns pile up, deadlines dominate every conversation and…
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