Merger & Acquisition (MA) Valuation: What You Need to Know
M&A business valuation requires expert advice from a valuation expert. Learn about three basic business valuation approaches and six types of mergers and acquisitions.
Business Valuation: How Do Investors Determine Business Value?
Are you planning to sell your business soon? Then, you must know how investors do a business valuation, so you get the top dollar for your company.
Is There a Deadline to File for ERTC?
The technical deadlines to apply for ERTC are far out, but the Government has the right to change aspects of these packages through a new bill or amendment. Don’t leave your money on the table!
Can I Claim Both Employee Retention Credit and PPP Loans?
Businesses who had PPP loans forgiven might think they can’t get the employee retention credits. That’s not necessarily true. Many of our clients have obtained ERTCs while ensuring their ability to preserve PPP loan forgiveness.
Here Are The Stages Of Business Growth
Every business goes through four stages of business growth: startup, growth, maturity, and renewal/decline. Regardless of the stage, you must always focus on long-term business growth and keep your strategies fresh.
A Goal-Oriented Business Growth Plan For You
Get the ins and outs of a business growth strategy and the Growth to Goal Model that’ll have the founders on board and the investors excited.
Business Valuation of Intangible Assets: The Five Top Methods
Valuing intangible assets is challenging because their value is subjective. Here you will find five reliable valuation methods to put an accurate price tag on your company’s intangible assets.
How Do You Calculate the Value of Your Business?
All startups and well-established businesses implement the business valuation processes. The procedure enables firms to discover the actual value of their company.
Qualified Expenses For The R&D Tax Credit (Free Assessment)
The R&D tax credit can result in significant savings on your company’s tax bill. Here’s our guide on what expenses are eligible for the current federal R&D tax credit.
R&D Tax Credits Face Higher Scrutiny from the IRS in 2022
R&D tax credits will face higher scrutiny from the IRS in 2022. It is extremely important to make sure that your R&D Tax Credit claim is IRS compliant before submitting your application.
R&D Tax Credit Guide for CPAs: How to Build Your Business with R&D Tax Credits
While most CPA firms are aware of R&D tax credits, they don’t have the expertise or employee bandwidth to help their clients obtain these credits. In most cases, it is more cost-efficient for CPA firms to outsource tax credit studies to a knowledgeable expert.
8 Easy Steps for Funding For Business Growth
Funding business growth can help to scale your business operations, reach more customers, improve services, and boost revenue. Try these eight steps for funding your business growth today.
R&D Tax Credit Calculation Methods [Free Assessment]
Don't worry; you're not alone if you don't know what the R&D tax credit is. It stands for research and development, and it helps businesses of all sizes save money on taxes...
Learn How to Improve Accountability in the Workplace
From the perspective of a 5-year-old boy, there isn’t much more fun than a new Nerf blaster. Unless, perhaps, taking that blaster and shooting your sister. Cue Dad to discuss the...
Budgeting to Increase Enterprise Value: How to Make $1.2MM Per Hour!
Can you really add $100,000 in enterprise value to your company in just five minutes? At Cunningham & Associates, we think so. Too often, we’re involved in budget...
Top 5 Tips for Scaling Your Business
Business growth is always a sign of good health. Being ready to scale your business means that your product or services are in demand, and you have an excellent business model....
Strategic Business Planning: Create a Powerful 3-5 Year Business Plan
Business owners need strategic business planning to maintain a competitive and profitable company. A three to five-year business plan will help you get there. Having no plan is...
Why Workforce Development Matters…NOW
Struggling with a shortage of qualified employees on the market? Invest in your workforce development instead. If you reside in MA, many resources are already available for you today.
How to Invest Your Business’ Excess Cash
When your company goes beyond “breaking even,” and starts to generate extra cash, it’s easy to start fantasizing about what you’ll do with your sudden windfall. Maybe you’ll pay...
Untapping Your Executive Effectiveness in 2021
The first step in effectively managing your organization is understanding how to handle yourself. For business owners, this task is daunting. We are constantly faced with...
Building an Accountable Management Team
At Cunningham and Associates, we know the importance of building an accountable management team. We are lucky enough to have worked with many companies, providing solutions to...
Overall Accounting Method Change: Cash vs Accrual
Many taxpayers do not realize they have a choice when it comes to how they report revenue and expenses on their annual tax filings. Recent changes to the tax code allow more...
What Services Are You Receiving? Tax Planning v Tax Preparation
There is a big difference between tax planning and tax preparation. Many business taxpayers do not understand the engagement they have with their tax advisors. As a result, they...
Brand Equity – How to Add Lasting Value to Your Company
Brand equity is the value that your brand brings to the company. It’s a measure of overall consumer perceptions and experiences with your brand. Strong brand equity means...
6 Money Saving Tax Benefits of Real Estate Investing
Investing in real estate has its ups and downs. Real estate, both commercial and residential property, can provide an owner, developer, or designer with many opportunities and...
Predictable to Aspirational Enterprise Value: Growth to Goal Model
Utilizing the C&A Way, Growth to Goal Model, methodical growth can launch your business from its current value, surpass a Predictable Value, and achieve your target...
Loss Carrybacks: The Best Strategy for 2020
The past few years have seen significant changes to the tax code. As a business owner, it’s now more important than ever to be aware of new opportunities. NOL carrybacks for 2020...
How To Plan a Graceful Business Exit Strategy [Free Consult]
A business exit strategy is a strategic plan that business owners use to leave or sell the business. Entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, and individuals use a company...
How to Create Predictable Profits and Cash Flows
For those businesses that are either younger or less structured, you should look to predictable profits and cash flows as the first dimension of growth that needs to be...
Where Are You Trying to Grow?
Discerning what phase your business is in and what you need to focus on to grow it Understand what Growth Means Let’s consider the word growth for a moment. What does that...
How Entity Restructuring for C-corps Can Save Big Bucks in Taxes
This article will explain how entity restructuring a c-corp business can significantly impact your bottom line.
Up the Odds: Planning to Sell Your Business
As a business owner, your efforts are focused on keeping your business viable and operational. As you near the point where you will want or need to sell your business, we at...
Transferable Enterprise Value
As we move through the phases of the C&A Way, Growth to Goal Model, there’s always one item that remains consistent no matter your goal. Each Growth to Goal Model participant...
How to Finance Your 2021 Training Initiatives Through State Grant Funds
As we turn the corner into 2021, Massachusetts small businesses are facing significant challenges. Many are hard at work adapting to higher competition in the market place and...
6 Possible Tax Law Changes that Require Action Now
Now that the Thanksgiving turkey has digested, we must turn our attention to effective year-end tax planning. This year’s uniqueness and uncertainty you experienced in your...
How to Measure the ROI of Employee Training
As a business owner, evaluating any investment in terms of the expected ROI is critical. For example, if you invest in a digital marketing presence, then you expect to see an...
Top 10 Steps to Maximizing Your Return on Employee Training
An effectively-trained workforce will provide your business with a range of excellent benefits. However, are all employee training initiatives successful? Unfortunately, no. ...
The Secret to an Effective Employee Training Program
Today’s business world is complex and fast-paced. A well-trained workforce can meet the demands of growing and complicated markets. As such, the value of employee training...
C&A Growth to Goal Model: Achieve Your Business Goals
I wish my company could run itself. Then I could relax, take a vacation, and pursue other goals. I would love to exit my business. But who would buy it, and what is it really...
Top 7 Small Business Tax Tips and Deduction Secrets
No one likes to overpay on their taxes. Small and mid-sized businesses don’t have to. Take advantage of the Golden Age of Taxation and reduce your taxes with these top 10 business strategies.
Save Your Business Thousands of Dollars with R&D Tax Credits
The current tax code gives business owners tons of opportunities for saving money. R&D tax credits are one of the most lucrative of those opportunities and are all too often...
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