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College Financial Planning

How Can You Pay for Your Kid to go to College, Spend and Save as You Are Now, and Increase the Amount of Money You have for Retirement?

Elder Care Financial Care

Finally… Worry Free Financial Management for Your Aging Parent or Family Member.

Estate Planning Done Right

Make Sure Your Family Transitions Prepare Your Children and Your Family for Financial Freedom.

Ransomware Defense Steps to Protect Your North Georgia Business’s Computer Systems

No matter your line of work, your computer might be one of your most glaring vulnerabilities ... and it's one that too many North Georgia business owners I've worked with don't fully address.Even if you work with your hands, and you're a sole practitioner (a...

The New Stimulus Update and Tax Issues for North Georgia Filers

The "American Rescue Plan" has been finalized. And there are things about the new stimulus update our North Georgia clients should know.While I normally write weekly, there is information in this strategy note that you need to know about now that might even impact how...

Accepting Crypto Payments in Your North Georgia Business

First of all, congratulations on making it through 2022. Pat on the back for sticking with it through the very real ups and the challenging lows. Many of our North Georgia clients went through the wringer … others had their best year yet.From a personal standpoint, I...

Identifying Your Target Prospect by Curtis Collins

With the business deadline (9/15) behind us, we're in tax planning season.Though the IRS (and Congress) haven't yet definitively made a statement about it (that we know of), here at ASA Accounting & Tax Services we are operating according to the fact that the filing...

Achieving Positive Cash Flow For Your North Georgia Business’s Health

Crazy to think there are only two more weeks until Christmas and only three more weeks left of 2023. There’s a lot of joy still to be had and opportunities for your North Georgia business to increase revenueAnd, while the rest of us are checking off our holiday...

How to Pay Estimated Taxes: Is Your North Georgia Business Doing This Right?

Cue the pumpkin stands, trick-or-treating supplies, mannequins with sweaters, and the way-too-perfect apple-picking photos in your social media feed.The calendar flipped to September and suddenly it's fall ... y'all. (Saw that one on a scrolling bank sign yesterday,...

The Hiring Tips Your North Georgia Business Needs

It seems like everywhere SMBs and retailers are short-staffed (and hiring). At the same time, with high inflation plaguing the country, other businesses are in the middle of layoffs.It seems as if these two realities would meet together, and establish an economic...

Small Business Mentoring For Your North Georgia Business

Did you know that about 20% of small businesses fail in their first year? That’s a daunting statistic for anyone starting a new North Georgia business. And, even scarier, is the reality that companies with owners younger than 30 are even more likely to...

KPI Setting in 2025 for Boosting Your North Georgia Business

Trust, I would argue, is the most important pillar in my relationship with my North Georgia clients. Your financials aren’t to be taken lightly. When it comes time to put them in someone else’s hands, you have to know that those hands won’t falter.And after the recent...

Expense Reimbursement vs Company Credit Cards: What North Georgia Business Owners Need to Decide

If you'll forgive me, I'm going to get pretty geeky today.You probably didn't realize that there are actual pros and cons to expense reimbursement for employees, etc. or using a company cc. Oh my North Georgia readers, I'm going to take you down a little rabbit hole...

How You’re Missing Legal Tax Deductions

Here’s a certain truth: the State and Federal Government would love to have more of your hard-earned money in their accounts. Sure, even though it’s painful, none of us begrudge paying our legal and fair share of taxes.
But the problem is that regular taxpayers, like you, are missing out on legal and safe deductions, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed refunds every year!

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