How Much Does a Startup Tax Return Cost?
Estimate your startup tax return cost with Kruze Consulting's calculator. Learn about tax factors, required information, and our specialized services for venture-backed startups
Published on Mon, 5 May 2025
Why accounting cleanup is crucial for your startup's success
There’s an issue a lot of startups face – accounting cleanup. While it might not sound like the most exciting topic, it’s one of the most important areas that can impact your startup’s future.
Published on Sun, 1 December 2024
Negative Balances On Balance Sheets: A Warning Sign
As accountants, we inevitably get asked questions about finance all the time, and that’s great! However, it’s never fun when we have to explain to someone that their accounting is messed up. Unfortunately, having negative balances is one of the classic tells of accounting problems.
Published on Sun, 15 September 2024
Working Capital 101 for Startups
Kruze Consulting's VP of FP&A, Healy Jones, presents a 101 guide to everything you need to know about working capital for startup businesses.
Published on Mon, 19 August 2024
How Should Bookkeepers Account For Legal Retainers?
This is a question we are often asked and it is a good one. However, before answering it, let’s first dive into how a legal retainer works.
Published on Tue, 16 July 2024
Can a founder get his/her startup to pay their apartment rent?
My team gets asked this question several times a year - is there a way for a VC-backed founder who is either working from home, or who lists their startup’s address as their home to have their startup pay their rent/mortgage and thus give the founder tax free income?
Published on Mon, 27 May 2024
What Are Capital Expenditures for Startups?
Capital expenditures, otherwise known as CAPEX, are mentioned in startup board meetings all the time. It’s definitely a fundamental term to understand when dealing with startup accounting.
Published on Wed, 10 April 2024
Bookings vs Revenue vs ARR
At Kruze Consulting, we get tons of questions about the difference between bookings, ARR and revenue.
Published on Mon, 1 April 2024
Are Term Sheets Legally Binding?
Term sheets can be a little bit of a gray area in the venture capital/startup world since certain elements, such as the confidentiality agreement, are legally binding.
Published on Sun, 4 February 2024
What Startup's Accounts on the Balance Sheet Need to be Reconciled
The punch line here is that every single account on the balance sheet needs to be reconciled, not just the bank and the credit cards.
Published on Mon, 15 January 2024
Warrant Coverage Venture Loans
The rationale for a warrant coverage or a little bit of equity upside for the lender is that they're taking a lot of risk here.
Published on Tue, 19 December 2023
A Guide to Tax Returns for Seed-Stage Startups
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.
Published on Thu, 23 November 2023
Unified Accounting and Tax
Why Startups Choose Kruze for Unified Accounting and Tax.
Published on Sun, 15 October 2023
How long can you access your QuickBooks Online account after closing it?
There are a number of reasons why you or someone else at your startup might need to look at your QuickBooks account after you cancel it, so you should understand how long you have to get any information you need.
Published on Sun, 11 June 2023
What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)?
Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is a fundamental metric to know in startup accounting. Customer acquisition cost is the amount you pay to add a single customer to your business.
Published on Sun, 4 June 2023
Three Things Startups Need After Registering for New York State Payroll
If you’re hiring employees in New York State, you’re going to need to register your startup in that state.
Published on Sun, 16 April 2023
Is Your Accountant Giving You QuickBooks Access?
We often encounter a problem with new startup clients: Those clients haven’t been given access to QuickBooks by their previous accountant.
Published on Sun, 9 April 2023
11 Reasons Why a Company May Receive a Payroll Tax Notice
Payroll tax notices from states or the IRS can be confusing and scary for a startup. Often founders don’t know rules around payroll taxes and can pay an employee incorrectly.
Published on Wed, 29 March 2023
Is it better for startups to pay a vendor via a check or credit card?
We get this question a lot; should a startup pay vendors via a check or credit card? Now, for the startup, it's always easier to pay via credit card.
Published on Wed, 4 January 2023
How an account aging report can help revenue generating startups
An account aging report is a tool that revenue generating startups can use to manage and track their accounts receivable.
Published on Sat, 10 December 2022
Cooking the Books: What Every Accountant Should Know About Fraud
A guide to Cooking the Books. What every accountant should know about fraud and how to avoid it at your startup, by Kruze's COO Scott Orn.
Published on Sun, 6 November 2022
Building Success
Kruze Consulting named one of the best accounting firms to work for in 2022.
Published on Thu, 15 September 2022
Why Hire a Remote Bookkeeper
Let’s dive into the advantages of a remote bookkeeper.
Published on Fri, 21 January 2022
Accounting for startup financing from Pipe
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, discusses everything you need to know about accounting for startup financing from Pipe.com, a new lending marketplace.
Published on Sun, 7 November 2021
How Much Do Accountants Charge Startups or Small Businesses?
Vanessa Kruze, CPA, answers the question 'how much do accountants charge startups or small businesses?' and what is their price plan dependent on.
Published on Tue, 1 June 2021
Compilation vs Review vs Audit
Vannessa Kruze, CPA, explains the difference between compilation, review & audit when it comes to providing your startup's 'Audited GAAP Financials'.
Published on Sun, 7 March 2021
Can my startup change its accounting method to be eligible for PPP2 loans?
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, explains if and how your startup can be eligible for the second round of the Payment Protection Program, or PPP2 loan.
Published on Tue, 2 March 2021
Technical debt for accountants
A lot of startup founders know about technical debt. It basically means when you're working fast you're not going to architect everything perfectly.
Published on Mon, 26 October 2020
Double-entry vs Single-entry Bookkeeping
What is the difference between double-entry bookkeeping, and single-entry bookkeeping, and which is right for a funded startup or high-growth eCommerce company?
Published on Wed, 26 August 2020
What should I keep my company's accountant abreast of?
Vanessa Kruze, CPA, explains the five key things that you should keep your accountant up to date about every month, to avoid wasting time and money.
Published on Mon, 24 August 2020
Leading ScaleFactor Alternative
Kruze Consulting is a leading alternative to ScaleFactor. We provide monthly books, tax support and filings & CFO level advice to 100s of startups!
Published on Tue, 23 June 2020
Bill.com vs Gusto for paying contractors
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, discusses Bill.com versus Gusto, the two most popular options used by startups for paying their contractors
Published on Wed, 10 June 2020
Webinar: SMB loans during COVID
Kruze Vice President FP&A, Healy Jones, will be joining this new Procurify’s webinar on All You Need To Know For Small Business Loans.
Published on Sun, 19 April 2020
2019 Kruze Training Offsite
The Kruze team is getting together this week for networking, training and 2020 planning.
Published on Tue, 17 December 2019
Kruze Consulting recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies
Learn about why Kruze Consulting has been recognized as a fast-growing company by several prestigious publications in the US and the Bay Area.
Published on Wed, 4 December 2019
How to Pick an Accountant for a Venture-Backed Delaware C-Corp
Kruze Consulting is 100% focused on helping seed and venture funded Delaware C-Corps with their accounting needs.
Published on Mon, 18 November 2019
10 Reasons Why Startups Can’t Use Their Payroll Provider for 1099s
1099s are a pain - somewhat mindless paperwork every startup needs to send to their contractors and many vendors like law firms.
Published on Tue, 24 September 2019
ASC 842: Lease Accounting and Lease Capitalization
There’s a new rule in town that venture-funded startups need to know about - and consider following if they want to remain GAAP compliant.
Published on Fri, 30 August 2019
Can a convertible note decrease your 409A valuation?
409A’s are outside valuations performed to help startups determine the strike price of their employees' options.
Published on Mon, 29 July 2019
Bad Bookkeeping: The Top 10 Ways your Financials are Messed Up
Vanessa Kruze, CPA, discusses bad bookkeeping, the top 10 ways your startup's financials are messed up and what you should do to correct them.
Published on Thu, 14 February 2019
Startup Finance and Accounting Job Descriptions
Kruze Consulting has compiled detailed job descriptions for startups' finance and accounting teams, based on our experience managing the growth of our startups.
Published on Mon, 3 December 2018
Does my Startup need Netsuite? 5 Signs that your Startup is Ready for Netsuite
Netsuite is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) tool. It manages your accounting, reporting, supply chain, procurement, and much more.
Published on Mon, 22 October 2018
Innovation with Compliance: NIH, NSF, and SBIR Accounting
Learn about the NIH (National Institutes of Health), NSF (National Science Foundation) and SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) services that Kruze offers.
Published on Mon, 24 September 2018
3 Accounting tips for companies about to raise venture capital
Vannessa Kruze, CPA, gives 3 accounting tips for companies about to raise venture capital - having helped clients raise over $200 million of venture capital.
Published on Tue, 15 May 2018
Startup's Due Diligence Information Venture Lenders Ask For
The first thing they're going to ask for is your historical financials.
Published on Tue, 14 November 2017
IRS Audits and Startups
What can I do to make sure that I am prepared for an IRS audit? Ultimately, how can I make sure that I don't get it to an IRS audit situation?
Published on Tue, 14 November 2017
Why Should Startups Use Bill.com
There are really three main reasons why you absolutely want to be using Bill.com.
Published on Thu, 9 November 2017
Why Do Startups Take Venture Debt?
At Kruze Consulting, we get tons of questions about venture debt. Should a startup take it? Is it good for the startup?
Published on Thu, 9 November 2017
Investor Abandonment Clause on Venture Debt
We're mainly referring to investor abandonment and venture debt term sheets.
Published on Thu, 9 November 2017
