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A document that has not arrived by the filing deadline has three possible answers, and the one most people pick is usually the most expensive of the three.
Continue reading Extension, rush the deadline, or amend later. Three ways to handle a missing form
The first meeting with a preparer is a two way interview and most people treat it as an application. The questions below take twenty minutes and settle it.
Continue reading Interviewing an accountant, and the six answers that tell you whether to hire them
The difference between records that make a return straightforward and records that cost a weekend is not effort. It is when the effort happens.
Continue reading Fifteen minutes on Friday keeps a shoebox from becoming an April problem
Tuition is the number on the letter and rarely the number that decides anything. The rest of it is knowable in January if you sit down and list it.
Continue reading Build the real number for next school year, line by line, before February
Holiday coverage is a small scheduling problem and an enormous fairness problem. Staff read it as a statement about how the place is run.
Continue reading How you handle the December schedule decides who is still there in March
The three main sources of information about a school are each reliable for something and misleading for everything else. The trick is matching them to questions.
Continue reading Campus visit, outcome data, or a student's opinion. Which one answers your question