IRS Form 5472 — The Importance of Reporting Foreign Ownership of US Companies

From Budweiser to 7-Eleven and American Apparel, many of the names consumers love, trust, and consistently engage with are foreign-owned. In fact, foreign-owned companies employed over 7 million American workers and generated a massive 16% of all business investments in 2019, so it’s safe to say that foreign-owned businesses help drive a significant chunk of the American economy. With Globalization …

Tax-Deducible Options for Business Vehicle Usage

If you’re an employer whose business relies on frequent vehicle usage, then you’re probably considering the options available to expense your business transportation. The best option is not always black-and-white, and often depends on the amount of time your employees spend driving, the size of your company, and other tax considerations. You have four main options for handling business transportation: …

How The Heck Do I Reconcile My Amazon Sales Data?!

With the help of Entriwise and our guide below, you’ll be able integrate your sales data in Quickbooks accurately and efficiently. One of the first things you learn in accounting is that you need to reconcile your checking and credit card accounts to ensure that the transactions that make up your financial statements are accurate and up-to-date. This process involved matching the …

The FinTech Apps & Software We Recommend To Track Your Business Financials

These days, there are a myriad of apps out there that can drastically simply your accounting and bookkeeping process. These applications help track all sorts of financial information, and should be utilized whether your business’s financials are tracked internally or by a financial services firm like ours. Accounting Software Quickbooks — Simply put, Quickbooks is the ideal business accounting software for small …

How Blockchain Technology Could Streamline Accounting and Business Operations

Introduction The modernization of the accounting profession is still in its initial stages. The industry has adopted cloud-based software and applications, but day-to-day operations are still manually intensive and require a variety of checks and balances to ensure the accuracy of financial transactions. For this reason, internal and external audits of a business are cumbersome and expensive. Blockchain technology acts …