The 2026 small-business tax checklist your accountant assumes you already know
Your accountant is not going to read your bookkeeping notes for fun. The carmannews business desk asked four CPAs what they wish their small-business…
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Priya Iyer
Business Editor
Priya leads the carmannews business desk, covering small business operations, personal finance, and the corporate moves that quietly shape what people earn and spend. Before carmannews she covered banking and credit markets for a wire service. She holds the CFA charter and writes the Sunday business briefing.
Credentials: CFA charterholder; 11 years on personal-finance and small-business beats.
Based in: Mumbai, India
12 stories at carmannews
Recent stories
When refinancing actually saves money — and when it just resets the clock
Refinancing math is simpler than most lenders make it look. A fifteen-minute calculation tells you whether the savings beat the closing costs. carmannews walks…
The bookkeeping setup that takes 30 minutes a week and saves you 30 hours at tax time
Most small businesses do their books once a year, in March, in tears. carmannews built a 30-minute weekly system from a CPA-recommended template —…
Why your credit card cashback might be losing you money on business expenses
A 2% cashback card looks free until you reverse-engineer the merchant fees you are passing through. carmannews ran the numbers on three common small-business…
How much working capital you actually need, by industry
The common rule of thumb — three months of operating expenses — is too generic. carmannews compared working-capital benchmarks across seven small-business industries to…
The right way to fire a client (and when you should)
Firing a client is uncomfortable but rarely as costly as keeping a bad one. carmannews mapped the decision against four signals: payment behavior, scope…
Personal finance in your 30s: the four-account system that quietly compounds
In your 30s, the personal-finance question shifts from "how do I save more" to "how do I make my saving automatic." The four-account system…
The annuity pitch your parents got — and why it might be wrong for them
Annuities are not inherently bad, but the way they are sold creates strong incentives that aren't aligned with the buyer. carmannews walks through three…
Side businesses that survived 2025 — and the ones that didn’t
The carmannews business desk tracked 47 side-business reader stories over 2025. Print-on-demand, dropshipping, and reselling collapsed; service businesses, niche newsletters, and digital templates grew.…
Pricing strategy for a service business: cost-plus is killing your margins
Cost-plus pricing — calculating your hourly rate and adding margin — is the wrong starting point for a service business. carmannews walks through value-based…