Sun.Sep 11, 2022

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Cash Basis vs. Accrual Basis: What’s the Difference?

CFO Simplified

There are two different ways of performing accounting functions in your business: One is on a cash basis, and the other is on an accrual basis. More often than not, your tax accountant is doing your taxes on a cash basis. Why? They don’t want you to pay taxes on money that you haven’t received yet. However, running your operating financials on a cash basis is the WORST way to prepare your financials.

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10 Sunday Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Morning reads will be at Futureproof and on hiatus this week; We will return to our regular schedule next weekend. Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • A Ruling Untethered to the Law : By appointing a special master to review the Mar-a-Lago documents, Judge Aileen Cannon gave Trump the special treatment he asked for—and undermined the values of her profession. ( The Atlantic ). • What’s the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?