While animation can be overdone, when used judiciously, it can add punch to your message. This is one example of how to accomplish that goal in 5 steps.
You might decide to reduce your taxable estate through lifetime gifts. But you’d also like to avoid a hefty gift tax on amounts above the $1 million lifetime...
Here’s an important business tax preparation question: If you have recently started a business, when are you required to begin filing income tax returns?...
Does it make sense to incorporate in December? Find out whether it makes sense to form a corporation for your small business or self-employment activity with only a few...
If you work with currency data and percentages, you have likely had an argument with that darned penny! You have flawlessly crafted your worksheet, expertly...
Put pizazz in your newsletters with four great tools right inside Microsoft Word 2007. Learn how to use text box links, columns, Quick Parts and page borders.
Start with a simple circle and experiment with the new powerful graphics tools in PowerPoint® 2007/2010. Very soon, you’ll find yourself forgetting all about...
Thanks to the new health care legislation, you can keep older children on your company health care plan for a longer period of time. The IRS has released temporary...
SmartArt is one of the biggest timesavers in the newer versions of Microsoft® Office. Especially useful for PowerPoint® and Word, it is a powerful way to...
I had a great question last week on our Outlook® webinar. Could Outlook® be used to replace a CRM function when it came to generating tasks with predefined...
Billions of email messages are sent each day, but one study estimates that the average employee wastes more than 40 minutes a day on worthless email. That doesn't...
If your firm is tagged as a “personal service corporation” (PSC), it must pay tax at a flat rate of 35% (the current highest average tax rate for C corps)....
Tricks with tables to save you some cutting and pasting when your data doesn't come in the way you expect it. Data to tables, tables to text and sorting data NOT in a...
It’s difficult to predict which employee will be the next to sue. That’s why your best defense is to treat every major employment-related decision as a...
Are you tired of paying tax twice on income as a C corporation owner? First, income is taxed to the corporation as it is earned and then again to you personally when...
Imagine typing only about half of what you do now. Keyboard shortcuts may seem like more trouble than they’re worth. But once discovered and practiced, shortcuts...
During my video training last week, I explained the basics of PowerPoint, including how to import your content quickly and easily. This week, we're going to get a bit...
Can you guess what the most common online password is? Actually, you probably can. Find out what passwords not to use, and how to create one that's easy for you to...
