Happy New Year! We are excited to kick off the 2019 tax season and we're also excited to share what we have been up to since our last newsletter. Conferences/Seminars/Events: The BDO Alliance Mini Area Meeting was held in January. Blackman & Sloop was pleased to...
What year did you join Blackman & Sloop? I joined the Blackman and Sloop audit team in August of 2018. Where did you go to college? I attended NC State University for both my Undergraduate and Master’s degree in Accounting. Why did you choose Blackman & Sloop? One of the...
Individuals with large estates generally want to gift portions of their estate to beneficiaries while they are still living, to avoid or lessen the estate tax when they pass away. That can be done through annual gifts (up to the inflation-adjusted annual limit for each...
If you’re a small business owner, you want your organization to do far more than survive: you want it to thrive! Unfortunately, to make sure that customers are happy and the lights stay on there are a lot of details that need attention, and some...
When it comes to liability insurance, the saying "you can never be too prepared" is certainly apt. While business owners cannot predict what happens day to day or year to year, they can look into purchasing business liability insurance in order to give themselves peace...
There are several major types of business entities, including S Corporations, C Corporations, Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) and self-employment. Each type of structure has its own advantages and disadvantages when it comes to taxes, assets and liability protection. Generally, certain types of businesses are best for...
QuickBooks Online was built to work with transactions downloaded from your online financial institutions. Here’s how to work with them. The ability to import transactions from financial institutions into QuickBooks Online is definitely one of the best things about the site. You may have even signed...
