When you consider ways to make your business safer during the coronavirus pandemic, making changes using your business accounting software might not be the first path that comes to mind. Don’t let a humble software solution fool you! If you’re using QuickBooks Online, you can tap into great features that can make your employees and customers feel safer while the risk of virus transmission is high.

Creating financial statements. Tracking performance metrics. Exploring business impacts. These are critical pieces of running and growing your business that, honestly, can be hard to find time to do.

Construction is already a tough industry. Your top concerns include ensuring worker safety, adhering to regulations and finding skilled labor. Construction employment hasn’t fully rebounded since the pandemic began. On top of all that, you’ve got to actually run and grow your business.

It’s easier than ever to slice and dice valuable data about your customers and your business, thanks to a new QuickBooks update. QuickBooks Online (QBO) has released a trio of updates that we’re excited about at Certum Solutions because they’ll help you better understand your business, tailor your employees’ payroll experience and save you time with automation.

Following the pandemic, many business owners are changing the ways their employees work. Some may allow employees to work remotely on occasion, while others may choose to become fully remote teams, which could include employees in different states. These changes to where work gets done can affect your federal labor law poster compliance.

As your business grows, the number of people who know how to do everything to run the company becomes fewer and fewer. The people with institutional knowledge of a business’ procedures are now CEOs or directors. The best use of their time isn’t to work with each new hire on process questions.

The latest quartet of QBO features does just that, helping you track your team’s progress and performance, automate the workflow experience, digitize the document process, and get access to hundreds of apps to alleviate your day-to-day grind.

Limited liability business structures offer a big benefit to business owners: Greater protection by separating your personal assets from your business assets. Starting a limited liability company (LLC) isn’t as simple as filling out a quick form. There are some decisions you’ll need to make upfront to distinguish your limited liability business, which may affect the type of entity you can set up.

If your S corporation applied for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan or Paycheck Protection Program relief through the Small Business Administration, it may have come with a surprise: a request for a board resolution OKing the loan application.

As business owners, we often want to be in control of every decision and every aspect of our businesses. But that’s not realistic – you simply can’t be everywhere, and do everything, at once.

The EIDL, offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration, can be a real benefit in helping your business through tough times. While the terms of the loan are favorable for business owners, the government is still charging interest daily on the full loan amount, which can range up to half a million dollars.

In the construction industry, there’s a reasonably high risk of injury on a job site. It can be a good idea — or even a legal requirement — for businesses to have a workers’ compensation policy that covers employees’ injury or illness in the workplace. But, there’s a surprising type of insurance that can leave construction workers without coverage: a ghost policy.

Whether it was inventory control, lack of skilled workers or shifting supplier bases, manufacturers were already facing enough challenges before the pandemic disrupted everything. With ongoing issues, such as supply chain and cash flow, only getting worse by this unprecedented year, how can you get solutions to these problems and ultimately take your operation to the next level?

What’s the latest on the meals and entertainment (M&E) deduction? While the costs of eating while doing business, or entertaining clients and prospects, was a big tax write-off for years, the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA), signed into law in 2017, curtailed this deduction until recently. At least for now, pandemic relief for businesses has partially reinstated the deduction.

Pay attention to your customer service, or your business is going to suffer. It’s that simple. Stress, work/life balance, running a business and putting out fires can distract us from providing great service. While we are all human and these issues are common, your business will struggle if you cannot meet your customers’ needs.

As we continue with our YouTube videos, I covered a commonly asked question this week on QuickBooks file types, when to use each kind, and what to do when you don’t know where your file is saved.

As business owners, you often have so much on your plate that finding the time to grow your business seems as if it’s a back-burner activity. Without the proper tools and resources in place, you simply can’t reach your goals and realize your untapped potential. That’s where our team at Certum Solutions comes in – as well as the power of QuickBooks Online (QBO).

Take a complete tour of QuickBooks Online Advanced, led by our wonderful Katie Bunschoten. If you have any questions, feel free to schedule a complimentary chat with Katie by clicking the button below. Best of wishes!