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Using Key Performance Indicators to Monitor and Benchmark Your Company’s Financial Results

Using Key Performance Indicators to Monitor and Benchmark Your Company’s Financial Results

With so much financial data at your fingertips, what are the key performance indicators (KPIs) that are most relevant in assessing your company’s financial situation? While one KPI alone cannot […]

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Selecting the Correct Tax Accounting Method for your Business

Selecting The Correct Tax Accounting Method For Your Business

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) opened up the eligibility guidelines for using the cash method of accounting, making the cash method available to more businesses than was previously […]

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Save Money While Making Vendor Payments

Save Money While Making Vendor Payments

Many manufacturing companies pay vendors with ACH payments. This process often involves entering the vendor bill and payment information in the accounting software package and then entering the payment at […]

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Choosing the best business entity structure post-TCJA

Choosing The Best Business Entity Structure Post-TCJA

For tax years beginning in 2018 and beyond, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) creates a flat 21% federal income tax rate for C corporations. Under prior law, C […]

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Important upcoming tax deadlines for businesses

Important Upcoming Deadlines For Businesses

Here are some of the key tax deadlines affecting businesses and other employers during the second quarter of 2018.  Keep in mind that this list isn’t all-inclusive, so there may […]

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2018 retirement plan limits

2018 Retirement Plan Limits Update

For 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) increased several plan limitations to reflect cost of living adjustments. Below are some of these limits for 2018: Elective deferrals to 401(k), 403(b) […]

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How Columbus Became the 14th largest city and the impact it has on your business

How Columbus Became The 14th Largest City And The Impact It Has On Your Business

Columbus is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with when it comes to population growth. According to the United States Census Bureau, Columbus just surpassed Indianapolis as the 14th […]

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Group Captive Insurance

In an environment of rising insurance costs, are you left to wondering why there doesn’t seem to be a direct correlation between your claims history and the premiums you pay? […]

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Top Six Accounting Errors Construction Companies Make

Financial statements are both a tool used to manage a business and a required deliverable for a lender or bonding company.  All construction company owners have to deal with them, […]

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Financial Planning: Helping You See the Big Picture

Do you picture yourself owning a new home, starting a business, or retiring comfortably? These are a few of the financial goals that may be important to you, and each […]

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The New Lease Accounting Standard: What you can do now

Update published on June 5, 2020: FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2020-05, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606) and Leases (ASC 842) Effective Dates for Certain Entities, as part of […]

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Webinars

SBA 7(a) quality of earnings requirement

SBA 7(a) Acquisitions: Preparing for New Quality of Earnings Requirements

By Alex Fritz, CPA, Director at Blue & Co., and President at One 2800 Capital Advisors, and Harsh Desai, Totl Manager For borrowers, lenders, and advisors involved in SBA-backed lending […]

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depreciation recapture for real estate investors

Depreciation Recapture: What Real Estate Investors Need to Know

By Omar Larios, CPA, Senior Accountant at Blue & Co. One of the most popular tax law updates from the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) for real estate investors and […]

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understanding the reverse 1031 exchange

Understanding the Reverse 1031 Exchange

By Walter Eckert, CPA, CVA, CEPA,  Director at Blue & Co. Finding the right replacement property before selling your current investment property can create both an opportunity and a timing […]

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midwest industrial outdoor storage

Where Opportunity Is Hiding in Midwest Industrial Real Estate

By Peter Hillenbrand, Senior Consultant at Blue & Co. Across the Midwest, Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) properties are rewriting the rules of commercial real estate. Vacancy rates are averaging near […]

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qualified opportunity zones

Qualified Opportunity Zones: What’s Changed and What It Means for Investors

By Carson Lorts, CPA, Senior Manager at Blue & Co. Qualified Opportunity Zones have now been around for nearly 10 years after their creation under the Tax Cuts & Jobs […]

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cost segregation study

Unlocking Cash Flow: The Strategic Advantage of Cost Segregation

By Caleb Young, CPA, Manager at Blue & Co. The Advantage of Cost Segregation Studies For Real Estate Investment What if you could significantly increase your cash flow in the first year of […]

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