The truth is that accountants can be key players in making meaningful and strategic financial decisions in your business, but if you’re leaving your teammate on the bench, how can you expect them to flex their financial know-how and get in on the action?

Changing accountants doesn’t have to be a hassle. In fact, it’s a piece of cake.

Learn the real costs of employee turnover for small businesses, which outweigh the expenses even during the start-up phase.

What’s your business’s true purpose? If you don’t know, it’s time to figure it out!

Learn how to detect financial or cyber fraud in your accounting books and recover from it if it does happen to your small business.

Looking ahead into 2024, our friends and clients make predictions about what the next year has in store for their companies and the production industry at large.

As this year comes to an end, SYZYGY's friends and clients reflect on all that they’re grateful for in 2023 and share their resolutions - financial and otherwise - moving into the future.

Scary stories from the front lines of production: This month, Syzygy’s friends and clients share chilling real-life tales from their careers ranging from the spooky yet silly to the truly terrifying.

We learn so much from our clients every day; we thought it would be a most excellent idea to share some of their producer wisdom right here in our new blog series. First up, we’re going back to school with leaders from Doomsday, Epoch Films, Hey Wonderful, and Ways & Means as we take it back to the fundamentals with a crash course in Production 101.

Accountants sometimes get a bad rap. The worst stereotypes are that they pinch pennies, only report financial matters after they've happened, or only exist to file taxes, which is necessary but never fun. But they can provide accounting services that do so much more for small businesses.

Many people aspire to start a small business, but logistical legal and tax requirements often deter the dream before it starts. With expert input, however, you can set up your business properly to avoid consequences from success.

Creative agencies and other service-based businesses often require similar accounting services. For creatives, however, accounting teams should consider these factors specific to the creative world.

If you’re trying to navigate your financial statements to understand the state of your business, asking your small business accounting professional these questions can help clarify the path you're on, where you want to go, and how to get there with the fewest road blocks.

As a small business owner, you already know that growing your business is incredibly challenging. The phrase "you've got to spend money to make money" exists for a reason-to develop operational capacity or generate new business, you often have to invest capital.

All entrepreneurs commonly start their new venture by forming an entity, opening a bank account, and hiring key advisors-but they may be starting different company types. Learn the significant difference between small business and startup company operations.

Each industry has its own accounting needs. For example, retail typically requires inventory accounting, and construction needs accounting for material purchases and resales. Media production carries its own needs often overlooked by brass tacks bookkeepers.

Businesses generally need accountants, but sometimes it can feel like an accountant will only provide information about what's already happened, or can't be a player in making meaningful financial decisions about your business. If you view your accountant this way, you probably don't really consider them a member of your team.

Many people successfully work as freelance professionals, offering their services and expertise on a short-term basis to various clients. These professionals often choose to freelance because they can make more money than employees do working the same amount of time. So why would they want to own a business?

People who make a lot of money and people who have a lot of wealth aren't always the same. Understand how to build wealth and how to manage money to achieve financial success.

As a small business owner, you already know that growing your business is incredibly challenging. The phrase "you've got to spend money to make money" exists for a reason-to develop operational capacity or generate new business, you often have to invest capital.