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• Risk

  Fraud controls small finance teams actually maintain

  Six controls that survive contact with a three-person accounting department.

  May 19, 2026 · 6 min read

• Workforce

  Multi-state payroll after three years of remote work

  Registration, withholding and nexus exposure created by hires nobody registered.

  May 5, 2026 · 7 min read

• Accounting

  Getting audit-ready twelve months before you need to be

  The schedules, policies and reconciliations to build now so a first audit is uneventful.

  Apr 21, 2026 · 10 min read

• Technology

  Where automation belongs in bookkeeping — and where it does not

  Categorisation and matching are solved. Judgement, cut-off and accruals are not.

  Apr 7, 2026 · 5 min read

• Advisory

  Quality of earnings: what buyers test first

  The adjustments that most often move a purchase price, and how to defend yours.

  Mar 24, 2026 · 12 min read

• Advisory

  Thirteen-week cash forecasting for seasonal businesses

  A practical model that survives a slow quarter and a payroll that does not move.

  Mar 10, 2026 · 8 min read

• Tax policy

  Economic nexus five years on: where sellers still get caught

  Thresholds shift quietly. These are the states that generate the most catch-up filings.

  Feb 24, 2026 · 7 min read

• Tax policy

  Setting owner compensation that holds up under review

  Reasonable salary is a documentation problem before it is a tax problem.

  Feb 10, 2026 · 6 min read

• Workforce

  When to hire your first in-house accountant

  The volume and complexity signals that make outsourcing more expensive than employing.

  Jan 27, 2026 · 5 min read