Accounting, Finance, HR and Tax for Startups
Hi! I'm Vanessa Kruze, CPA and I founded Kruze Consulting in 2012. Our firm handles all things Accounting, Finance, HR and Tax for over 800 startups. Follow Kruze Consulting on Twitter to keep up with all of our blog posts, videos and podcasts.
Compliance with regulatory requirements is crucial for the success of any business, but startups, with limited resources, need to be particularly careful.
The ultimate tax season guide for startups, by the leading tax CPA to startups. Kruze has filed thousands of tax returns; we answer the top tax questions.
After the booming startup market of the last few years, the valuation of many startups has gotten too high.
As the leading CPA firm serving VC-backed startups, we are acutely aware of the trends in startup funding - including valuation trends.
The ratio of distributions to paid-in capital (DPI) is used to measure the total capital that a venture capital fund has returned to its investors. It’s calculated by dividing the cumulative distributions by the amount of capital invested in a VC fund.
While startup founders can pay themselves through an LLC, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) doesn’t particularly like it. If you’re a founder considering this option, you should know that you may get extra attention from the IRS.
With this question, there are different factors at play. There’s what we recommend and there is also what happens in reality when founders are busy and end up resorting to the quickest method.
Insured Cash Sweep (ICS) accounts have been around for a while, but the recent Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) crisis has made a lot of founders look more closely at this banking option for their startups.
The ‘Masters Exemption’ (also known as the Augusta Exemption or Augusta Rule) allows startup founders to rent their homes to their startups - for legitimate businesses purposes only - for short periods and reap tax benefits.
The unequivocal answer to this question is yes! Startup founders should absolutely take vacations no matter how much pressure they may feel, and there are multiple reasons for this.
Why Startups Choose Kruze for Unified Accounting and Tax.
At Kruze Consulting, we get tons of questions about the difference between bookings, ARR and revenue.
Obviously, no one wants to do a downround. It means you raised money at a valuation that was too high, and you didn’t execute your promises as well as you said you would.
Startups change a lot over time and it is important that their finance function adapts with those changes.
While sometimes it may feel like you’re giving money to charity as an angel investor, that’s not how it works for tax purposes.
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