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Here you'll find regular tips to help with your business and personal finances, as well as strategies to grow and more efficiently run your organization.  

Table of ContentPut a QOE Report to Work for You

1. AUP Engagements: A Middle Ground Between Audits and Consulting Services
2. Measuring "Fair Value" for Financial Reporting Purposes
3. Predicting Future Performance
4. How Auditors Use Nonfinancial Information
5. Tax-smart Domestic Travel: Combing Business With Pleasure
6. Hire Your Children This Summer: Everyone Wins
7. Q3 2019 Tax Calendar: Key Deadlines for Businesses and Other Employers
8. Which Entity is Most Suitable for Your New or Existing Business?
9. What's New at Machen McChesney

AUP Engagements: A Middle Ground Between audits and Consulting ServicesYour CPA offers a wide menu of services. An audit is a familiar type of attestation service that provides a formal opinion about whether the company’s financial statements conform to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Continue reading.

Measuring "Fair Value" for Financial Reporting PurposesThe standard for valuing certain assets and liabilities under U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is “fair value.” This differs from other valuation standards that may apply when valuing a security or business interest in a litigation or mergers and acquisitions (M&A) setting. Continue reading.

Predicting Future Performance

Tax-smart Domestic Travel: Combining Business With PleasureSummer has just begun, so you might be thinking about getting some vacation time. If you’re self-employed or a business owner, you have a golden opportunity to combine a business trip with a few extra days of vacation and offset some of the cost with a tax deduction. But be careful, or you might not qualify for the write-offs you’re expecting. Continue reading. 

Hire Your Children This Summer: Everyone WinsIf you’re a business owner and you hire your children (or grandchildren) this summer, you can obtain tax breaks and other nontax benefits. The kids can gain on-the-job experience, save for college and learn how to manage money. And you may be able to: Continue reading.  

Q3 2019 Tax Calendar: Key Deadlines for Businesses and Other EmployersHere are some of the key tax-related deadlines affecting businesses and other employers during the third quarter of 2019. Continue reading.

Which Entity is Most Suitable for Your New or Existing Business?

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has changed the landscape for business taxpayers. That’s because the law introduced a flat 21% federal income tax rate for C corporations. Under prior law, profitable C corporations paid up to 35%. Continue reading. 

What's New at Machen McChesney?

Sponsorships, new hires, announcements
Continue reading. 

We hope you found value in The Value Report you've received this month. We look forward to finding even more ways to Return Value to you in the future.