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Plain Answers on Books, Taxes and Payroll for Eastern North Carolina
Straight answers from a Greenville accountant for the business owners, churches and families of eastern North Carolina. What to track, what to file, and when to get help. No jargon.
October 17, 2026
Quarterly Estimated Taxes: How a Farmville Business Knows It's Setting Aside Enough
How a Farmville owner can tell whether the money set aside for quarterly estimated taxes is enough, using last year's return, this year's books and the IRS and NCDOR rules.
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October 14, 2026
Filing an Extension or Filing Late: They Are Not the Same Thing for a Grimesland Business
An extension moves the date your return is due, not the date your tax is due. What that means in IRS and NCDOR penalties for a Grimesland business.
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October 10, 2026
What a Greenville Church Board Should Ask For Before Approving the Budget
You are being asked to approve a number. Here are the four documents that make that vote informed, and the questions worth asking out loud before anybody raises a hand.
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October 2, 2026
Bookkeeping for a Winterville NC Business: What Monthly Actually Covers
Monthly bookkeeping is a defined set of work with a defined output. Here is what lands in your inbox each month, what stays your job, and how to tell a monthly service from a once-a-year scramble.
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September 30, 2026
DIY QuickBooks or Hand It Over: How to Decide
Three ways to run your books compared on time, error-catching and fit, plus the two tests that tell a Greenville owner when a do-it-yourself QuickBooks file has outgrown them.
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September 25, 2026
Three Reports Your Bookkeeper Should Send You Every Month
A profit and loss, a balance sheet and a cash report. What each one answers, what to look for when you open it, and which one to read first for the decision in front of you.
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September 19, 2026
How to Tell Whether Your Books Are Actually Reconciled
Reconciled has a specific meaning, and you can check it yourself in about ten minutes without taking anybody's word for it. Here are the four places to look.
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September 19, 2026
QuickBooks Cleanup for a Greenville NC Small Business: What It Involves
A cleanup is not a tidy-up. It is rebuilding the file month by month until the balances match the bank, and here is the order that work actually happens in.
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September 4, 2026
What a Church Bookkeeper Actually Does Each Month
Recording the giving, keeping designated funds separate from the general fund, payroll, the bank reconciliation, and a report the board can read in ten minutes. The monthly rhythm of church books, in plain language.
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September 4, 2026
How to Confirm Your Tax Return Was Actually Filed
Prepared and filed are two different things. How to get the acceptance confirmation from your preparer, check the IRS and NCDOR records yourself, and what to do if a year was never filed at all.
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