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We provide a library of financial calculators to help you begin planning your financial future-from forecasting your retirement options or child's college fund to estate planning and mortgage refinancing. Interactive calculations, dynamic graphs, and fully customizable reports are just a few features provided with our calculators to support thorough financial planning and a sound decision-making process. Though not a substitute for advice and information provided by a qualified professional, our calculators offer a good starting point to a secure future.

Useful Information:

990's Policies This document describes the updates to the IRS Form 990 (Tax-Exempt Organizations).
Form W-11 This is the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act form. Under the new HIRE Act, enacted March 18, 2010, two new tax benefits are available to employers who hire certain previously unemployed workers ("qualified employees").
Health Care Reform This is a brief overview of the key tax changes affecting individuals in the recently enacted health reform legislation. Please call our offices for details of how the new changes may affect your specific situation.
Health Care Reform for Small Businesses For owners of small businesses and their workers, the recently enacted health reform legislation has some key provisions to pay attention to. The major ones include: tax credits; excise taxes; and penalties. But whether a business will be affected by them depends on a variety of factors, such as the number of employees the business has. I'm writing to give you an overview of the provisions in the new law with the biggest impact on small business. Please call our offices for details of how the new changes may affect your specific business.
Hiring ACT Payroll Tax Updates This is an overview of the key tax changes affecting business in the recently enacted Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act. Please call our offices for details of how the new changes may affect your specific business.
Suggested Record Retention List This table is a guide for retention of accounting records, divided into various categories. Please call our offices for specific questions or concerns that may affect your specific business.

Useful Sites:

Internal Revenue ServiceThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is an agency of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury. The IRS is responsible for collecting taxes and the interpretation and enforcement of the Internal Revenue Code, the body of federal tax law in the United States.
Social Security AdministrationThe United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
Alaska Department of LaborThe Alaska Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of Alaska by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other state economic measurements.

Calculators and Tools:

Qualify for Home Purchase This calculator indicates whether or not you qualify for a conventional mortgage.
Loan Amortization Calculator Use this calculator to calculate a loan amount based on your desired monthly payment or to calculate a monthly payment based on a loan amount.
Time to Payoff Credit Card Use this calculator to calculate the monthly payment and length of time it will take to pay off your card.
Auto Loans Find out how much automobile you can buy based on your monthly payment, or find out your loan payment based on your purchase price!
Investment Needed to Achieve Goal Use this calculator to determine the investment needed to achieve your goal.
Financial Ratios This calculator is designed to show you ten different financial ratios. Financial ratios are used as indicators that allow you to zero in on areas of your business that may need attention. Areas such as solvency, liquidity, operational efficiency and profitability.