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A rolling reserve is your revenue held as restricted cash, not a fee: book the gross sale, debit Funds Held in Reserve, and post releases as asset transfers.
On September 18, 2026, Nacha makes standard ACH credits available by 9 a.m. with no receipt cutoff and rewrites the IAT definition in Section 8.55. What changes for cross-border payments, payroll timing, and the 2027–2028 follow-ons.
A leased three-classroom Montessori preschool needs $350,000-$600,000 to open, and spring tuition deposits are deferred revenue, not cash for summer construction. Startup ranges, staffing math, and the two entries founders get wrong.
Ottimate's June 2026 MCP integration lets you query live AP data from Claude or ChatGPT; Billtrust followed for AR. Start read-only, with audit logs on.
The average small business liability claim now costs $97,200, while $1M/$2M product liability coverage averages about $1,192 a year. What the policy pays, who in the distribution chain can be sued, and five mistakes that leave sellers exposed.
A $10M pre-money valuation with a 15% option pool values the founders' shares closer to $8.5M. A clause-by-clause walk through a priced-round term sheet — the option pool shuffle, 1x non-participating preference, full-ratchet anti-dilution, board seats and veto lists — with the math worked out.
SBA's proposed rule cuts 995 size standards to 338, raises some thresholds tenfold and makes ~114,000 more firms 'small'; comments close September 21, 2026.
Section 179 recapture applies when business use drops to 50% or less in any recovery-period year: the clawback is ordinary income on Form 4797, Part IV.
A PTIN, an EFIN after a 45-day IRS suitability check, and Form 8867 diligence on every credit return — the federal startup checklist for paid preparers.
Lenders judge a loan application on three numbers — current ratio (1.5+ adequate, under 1.0 a red flag), quick ratio above 1.0, and a DSCR of at least 1.15x for SBA 7(a) and 504 loans.
Togo's Finance Law 2026 mandates certified e-invoicing for B2B sales between VAT taxpayers, with data reported to the OTR; paper stays valid until go-live.
Voiding zeroes a QuickBooks transaction but keeps the record; deleting erases it. Void by default and recover mistakes through the Audit Log.
