Marketing Manager
Since July 9, 2026, Etsy requires non-US sellers to ship to US buyers under Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), making the seller responsible for import duties now that the US de minimis exemption is gone. This guide covers what DDP actually costs (the tariff plus 15–17 dollar carrier clearance fees), how to rebuild landed cost per listing, and how to book and reconcile embedded versus actual duties every month.
The interest coverage ratio (EBIT ÷ interest expense) is the loan covenant small businesses trip most often, with minimums typically set between 2.5x and 4.5x and tested quarterly on trailing twelve months. This guide explains how lenders define EBITDA and interest expense, what a breach triggers (default rate, frozen draws, cross-defaults), and the cure sequence in cost order — early covenant reset, waiver, amendment, equity cure, forbearance — plus the bookkeeping that keeps your ratio visible before the bank sees it.
Since July 1, 2026, Meta adds 2%–5% location fees on ads delivered to users in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria and Türkiye, billed on top of campaign budgets and never shown in Ads Manager. Learn how to compute your blended fee rate, book the fees as their own ledger line, and reconcile from the invoice rather than the dashboard.
Oklahoma's child care subsidy income ceiling falls from 85% to 55% of state median income on July 1, 2026, cutting the family-of-four cutoff from about $79,846 to about $51,665, months after the $5-per-day provider add-on ended on April 6. This guide shows daycare owners how to segment their roster by subsidy exposure, model private-pay conversion versus reduced hours versus attrition, and rebuild staffing, pricing, and cash reserves before the renewal-by-renewal enrollment slope arrives.
If a payroll company withdraws your tax money and never deposits it, the employer still owes the full tax plus penalties. A payroll service provider or reporting agent assumes no liability, a Section 3504 agent shares it, and only an IRS-certified CPEO is solely liable for its work-site employees. This guide covers the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty that reaches owners personally, seven warning signs of a failing provider, and the monthly EFTPS verification habit that catches a missed deposit at a 2% penalty instead of 10%.
Ground beef hit about $6.75 a pound and steak $12.80 in May 2026, with the U.S. cattle herd at a 75-year low of 86.2 million head and relief unlikely before 2028. This guide shows restaurants and butcher shops how to recost every beef item, spread increases across the menu, move down the carcass, and track item-level margin after the change.
A returnless refund is a sales allowance, not a return. No inventory comes back, so nothing gets restocked and COGS stays put. This guide gives the per-SKU break-even math for when letting a customer keep a $40 item beats paying return shipping, the exact double-entry bookings for restocked returns, keep-it refunds and unsellable returns, the sales-tax posting, fraud guardrails, and the three metrics that show whether the policy is working.
SECURE 2.0 Section 120 lets a departing employee's $1,000–$7,000 401(k) balance follow them into their next employer's plan through the Portability Services Network, and IRS Notice 2024-2 requires most calendar-year plans to adopt a consolidated SECURE 2.0 amendment by December 31, 2026. This guide covers how auto-portability interacts with force-out rules, what the amendment must memorialize, whether small employers should opt in, and the payroll, census and expense records to reconcile before year-end.
Square raised its free-plan online card rate from 2.9% + 30¢ to 3.3% + 30¢ on January 13, 2026, and paid plans moved to 2.9% + 30¢. Compute the annual cost of the increase, find the new Square Plus break-even near $12,250 per month in online volume, and see when interchange-plus pricing beats a flat rate.
Since July 1, 2026, Washington homeowners can collect up to $25,000 of an unpaid contractor judgment from the state's Homeowner Recovery Program, after which L&I can pursue the contractor for reimbursement with interest on payment plans of up to 36 months. This guide explains the eligibility rules, the post-2024 bond levels of $30,000 general and $15,000 specialty, and how a residential contractor should log disputes, accrue probable losses under ASC 450, fund a separate cash reserve, and amortize a state repayment plan in a plain-text ledger.
AASB 1061 creates a simplified Tier 3 general purpose reporting framework for eligible Australian private-sector not-for-profits, mandatory for annual periods beginning on or after 1 July 2029. Here is what changes for leases, grant revenue, financial instruments, and donated assets — and the records, registers, and policies to build before the first Tier 3 year closes.
Under the Nacha Operating Rules, an ACH reversal corrects only a sender's qualifying error—a duplicate, wrong amount, wrong account, or qualifying wrong date—and must reach the receiving bank within five banking days of settlement. This guide explains how reversals differ from returns and R10/R11 unauthorized-debit claims, and how to record each event so payments stay reconcilable.
