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Honest Buck Accounting provides expert accounting, tax, and advisory services for childcare providers, preschools, and non-profit schools, helping them streamline finances, save on taxes, and grow their businesses. Since 2007, Honest Buck Accounting has been committed to helping mid-size businesses make smart financial decisions through professional bookkeeping services, CFO services, and profit coaching. As experts in accounting and tax preparation, Honest Buck transforms messy financials into sustainable bookkeeping systems so business owners can focus on their business.

10/27/2026

Own the building your childcare center operates in? It may be getting written off more slowly than it needs to be. 🏫
Here's why. When you buy a building, the price usually goes on your tax return as one big asset, deducted a little at a time over 39 years.
But parts of a childcare building, like certain finishes, fencing and outdoor play areas, may qualify for 5-, 7- or 15-year schedules. A cost segregation study identifies those parts so you can deduct them sooner.
Fall is a good time to ask about it. You'll have time to gather records, compare the potential benefit with the cost and fit the results into your year-end tax plan.
Our new guide explains it all in plain English.
Had you heard of cost segregation before today?
https://honestbuck.com/q4-cost-segregation-study/

10/23/2026

Childcare is part of how a local economy works. When care falls through, parents miss work and employers feel it. 🏫
Many center owners already know that. Fewer have turned it into a business relationship with the employers who benefit.
At Honest Buck, we focus on the financial side of childcare. That includes helping owners look at a new opportunity, such as an employer partnership, and ask whether the rate, staffing, capacity, and cash flow actually work before signing anything.
Our new guide on the employer-sponsored childcare tax credit is a practical starting point for that conversation.
What has kept you from approaching a local employer so far?
https://honestbuck.com/employer-sponsored-childcare-tax-credit/

10/22/2026

If a local employer called tomorrow and asked about childcare for its team, what would you need to know before saying yes? 🤔
Our shortlist:
•How many spaces could you commit without bumping current families?
•Would you need to open earlier, close later, or add a classroom?
•Who pays what, and when, compared with your payroll schedule?
•What happens if an employee leaves the company mid-year?
•What family information can you share, and with whose permission?
A partnership should work for your center on its own terms, whether or not the employer qualifies for a tax credit.
Our guide covers four partnership models and the agreement terms that protect your capacity and cash flow.
Which question would worry you most?
https://honestbuck.com/employer-sponsored-childcare-tax-credit/

10/22/2026

“The government will pay half your childcare bill” is not the pitch we recommend making to an employer. 📋
It oversimplifies the credit, and it puts your center in the position of promising a tax result you don’t control.
A stronger approach:
•Lead with the employer’s hiring and retention problem
•Bring a one-page proposal covering spaces, ages, hours, rates, and billing
•Offer invoices that help the employer document its payments
•Hand off the tax question: “Your tax advisor can evaluate whether this arrangement qualifies.”
Our guide includes a hypothetical example of what the credit could mean for a small employer, along with the limits to mention before anyone counts the savings.
What would you include in your one-page proposal?
Read the guide: https://honestbuck.com/employer-sponsored-childcare-tax-credit/

10/20/2026

Your waitlist and a local employer may have the same problem. 🤝
Parents can’t take a job or pick up more shifts without reliable childcare. Employers can’t fill those shifts. Your center sits right in the middle.
Starting in 2026, the employer-sponsored childcare tax credit gives businesses a much bigger reason to help pay for care at licensed centers like yours.
One key detail: the employer claims the credit, not your center. Your role is to provide great care under a clear agreement. Their tax advisor handles the rest.
Our new guide explains the credit in plain language and walks through four ways a childcare center can partner with a local employer.
Which business in your community would you call first?
Read the guide: https://honestbuck.com/employer-sponsored-childcare-tax-credit/

10/16/2026

Bring us the same questions you’d ask any other accounting firm. 🏫
If you’re looking for a certified public accountant, or CPA, for your childcare business, you should understand the relationship before you sign.
Ask about the childcare experience behind the service. Ask who reviews the books. Ask how tax planning happens during the year and what work falls outside the monthly fee.
Then ask what the first 90 days of switching accountants would look like, and who is responsible for each upcoming deadline.
At Honest Buck, we bring bookkeeping, advisory, and tax support together for childcare businesses. We want the fit to be clear, not assumed.
Our seven-question guide helps you compare firms on the same terms. Use it to take notes, request examples, and turn a good first conversation into clear expectations.
Read the guide: https://honestbuck.com/questions-to-ask-childcare-cpa/

10/15/2026

You liked the accountant on the introductory call. Who will you actually work with next month? 👇
If you’re choosing accounting support for your childcare center, we recommend asking that before you sign.
There may be a team behind the work, and that can be a great fit. The important questions are:
•Who is our regular contact?
•Who reviews our monthly financial reports?
•Who handles a complex tax question?
•Who follows up when an answer needs research?
You don’t need one person doing everything. You do need to know who owns each step and how questions get answered.
What matters most to you: a consistent contact, a clear response process, or more useful financial reviews?
Our new guide includes seven questions for comparing childcare accounting firms before the relationship begins.
Read the guide: https://honestbuck.com/questions-to-ask-childcare-cpa/

10/15/2026

Before comparing two accounting quotes, compare what each one actually includes. 📋
Two prices can look very different and still cover completely different work. For a childcare center, we recommend putting proposals side by side and asking:
•Is catch-up work for months that are behind included?
•Are regular review meetings part of the service?
•Which business and personal tax returns are covered?
•Who runs payroll each pay period, and who checks it against the books?
•What changes if we open another location?
Then ask each firm to name the work that would need a separate agreement or an extra fee.
This isn’t about choosing the longest service list. It’s about choosing a scope, the specific work included, that fits your center and knowing where the boundaries are.
Our seven-question guide helps childcare owners evaluate the team, reporting, tax planning, fees, and transition before signing. Use it with every firm you’re considering, including ours.
Read it here: https://honestbuck.com/questions-to-ask-childcare-cpa/

10/13/2026

“Do you work with childcare centers?” is a good first question for a prospective accountant. It shouldn’t be your last one. 🧾
Before hiring a certified public accountant, or CPA, ask how the work will actually happen after you sign:
•How will our tuition reports be checked against the books?
•Who will make sure payroll reports match the accounting records?
•What reports will we receive each month?
•When will we talk through decisions, not just results?
Then ask to see a sample monthly report or month-end checklist, the routine a firm follows to finalize each month’s books, using fictional or anonymized numbers.
Our recommendation: compare the process you’re being offered, not just the list of services on a website.
We’ve put together seven questions to ask a childcare CPA before you sign an engagement letter, the written agreement that defines the work, including what to listen for and what to get in writing.
Which part of your accounting relationship would you most like to clarify?
Read the guide: https://honestbuck.com/questions-to-ask-childcare-cpa/

10/09/2026

“Your center could save thousands” sounds good. “Here is what your center actually qualifies for” is more useful.
That is the approach we recommend for childcare tax planning.
Take the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, or WOTC. It is a federal tax credit for hiring certain eligible workers, but the employee's circumstances, start date, paperwork, and state approval all matter.
Right now, it is not available for employees who started work after December 31, 2025. Eligible earlier hires may still deserve a review.
A useful conversation with your CPA should leave you knowing:
Whether your center has a supportable credit.
Which records are missing.
What action, if any, comes next.
Sometimes the answer is a tax benefit. Sometimes it is a clear explanation of why a credit does not apply.
At Honest Buck, we believe both answers are more valuable than a savings estimate your business cannot rely on. Tax planning should fit the center you actually run.
Read our childcare hiring tax credit guide: https://honestbuck.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-work-opportunity-tax-credit/

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