Accounting for a small business using Microsoft's Excel often requires the use of figures from one year as part of the accounting necessary for the next year's figures. Rather than keep a continuous ...

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Among the basic taxes that people need to pay, FICA is one of the most common. FICA stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Tax, and it consists of Social Security and Medicare tax. To determine ...

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