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Accounting
Master accounting fundamentals and best practices for plain-text bookkeeping
Single-Member LLC in 2026: Disregarded Entity, Corporate Election, and the S-Corp Reasonable-Comp Decision That Saves Self-Employment Tax
By default an LLC is disregarded to Schedule C and pays SE tax on all profit — elect S-corp via 8832/2553, pay yourself reasonable W-2 wages, and distributions escape SE tax when the salary is defensible.
Recordkeeping for Small Business in 2026: What to Keep, How Long, and the Digital Receipt Standard That Survives an Audit
The IRS needs adequate records per position — ordinary items 6 years from filing, payroll 4, property until disposition plus 6 — and a digital image counts only when indexed, legible, and retrievable.
Hiring Your First Employee in 2026: Payroll Registration, W-4 and I-9, Workers' Comp, and the First 30-Day Compliance Checklist
An employee is a registration before the first paycheck — EIN, state withholding and SUI, workers' comp bound, W-4 and I-9 in 3 days, new-hire report in 20 days, 941 deposits by EFTPS.
R&D Tax Credit for Small Business in 2026: How the Section 41 Payroll Offset Gives Startups Up to $500K Against Payroll Tax
Qualified research wages, supplies, and 65% of contract research generate a 14% ASC — and qualified startups can elect up to $500K per year against employer payroll on Form 8974.
Form 1099-NEC vs. 1099-MISC in 2026: $600 Thresholds, January 31 Deadlines, and the $50–$310 Per-Form Penalty Ladder
NEC is for services, MISC is for rent and royalties — both to recipients by Jan 31, but NEC also files to IRS by Jan 31. Miss it and the $60–$310 per-form ladder starts.
Účtovníctvo krematória pre domáce zvieratá: Cenové úrovne, provízie pre veterinárov a odpisovanie retorty
Podniky s kremáciou domácich zvierat prevádzkujú tri modely príjmov súčasne (kremácia s cenovými úrovňami, provízie pre veterinárov a predaj tovaru) a samotná retorta sa odpisuje ako 7-ročné zariadenie MACRS spôsobilé na 100% bonusový odpis pri majetku uvedenom do prevádzky po 19. januári 2025 – nie ako 39-ročné zlepšenie budovy.
Beneficial Ownership Reporting in 2026: Who Must File BOI With FinCEN, What Changed After the Court Challenges, and Late Penalties of $591 Per Day
The March 2025 interim final rule exempted domestic reporting companies — foreign-registered entities must still report within 30 days, update within 30 of any change, at $591 per day for willful failure.
Crypto Taxes in 2026: Staking Rewards, Airdrops, Hard Forks, and Why Every Swap Is a Taxable Disposition
Staking, airdrops, and hard forks are ordinary income at fair value when you gain dominion and control — and every crypto-to-crypto swap is a sale with proceeds, basis, and gain.
Business Meals in 2026: What Is 50% Deductible After the Temporary 100% Expired and How to Document Business Purpose
Restaurant meals are back to 50% after the 2022 100% boost expired — the real test is whether each meal has amount, time, place, purpose, and business relationship plus your presence.
Meta Q2 2026 Earnings: Tržby vzrástli o 28%, ale zisk prvýkrát v ére AI klesol
Meta Platforms v Q2 2026 vzrástli tržby o 28% na 60,8 miliardy dolárov, ale čistý zisk klesol o 14% na 15,8 miliardy dolárov — prvý medziročný pokles zisku v ére AI-kapitálových výdavkov — keďže celkové náklady vzrástli o 55%, prevádzková marža klesla z 43% na 31% a kapitálové výdavky sa takmer zdvojnásobili na 31,1 miliardy dolárov.
Robinhood Q2 2026 Výsledky: Rekordný kvartál, prvý dlh v histórii a jednorazový zisk skrytý na očiach
Tržby Robinhood v Q2 2026 vzrástli o 32 % na rekordných 1,31 miliardy USD a čistý zisk vyskočil o 48 % na 573 miliónov USD, no definujúcimi udalosťami kvartálu bolo prvé dlhové financovanie v histórii spoločnosti — 2,2 miliardy USD v konvertibilných dlhopisoch — a jednorazový zisk 135 miliónov USD, ktorý predstavoval približne 0,14 USD z rozpusteného EPS vo výške 0,62 USD.
AUSTRAC Tranche 2: Čo musia austrálski účtovníci a bookkeeperi urobiť do 29. júla 2026
Austrálske reformy AML/CTF Tranche 2 ustanovili účtovníkov, bookkeeperov a daňových agentov za ohlasovacie subjekty AUSTRAC od 1. júla 2026, pričom registrácia sa musí vykonať do 29. júla. Tu je deväť určených služieb, ktoré spúšťajú túto povinnosť, čo registračný formulár vyžaduje a aké sankcie hrozia za jeho nesplnenie – až do výšky 36,4 milióna dolárov za jedno porušenie pre korporáciu.