Liz Gold, Author at CPA Trendlines

iComply Helping Cannabusinesses Stay Ahead of the Curve

When white collars and green collars come together.

Mark Slaugh’s company, iComply, is experiencing triple growth year after year. Because as cannabis businesses get more sophisticated, their market’s regulators do as well.

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Through a mix of packages and training, iComply is helping cannabis businesses stay compliant by allowing them to choose a level of protection. This ranges from do-it-yourself compliance guidance to more comprehensive offerings.
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Green Bits: Helping Cannabis Retailers Stay Compliant

A POS that knows your local laws.

By Liz Gold
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After selling his former company, Outright, to GoDaddy in 2012, Ben Curren stayed at the company for a year and then started considering what he would do next. After listening to cannabis-related news and realizing the inventory problems that were emerging because of compliance, Curren got excited to tackle some of the issues plaguing many cannabis dispensaries.

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As a result, he jumped into the cannabis industry, leveraging his skills and background as an engineer at QuickBooks to create a new technology to help legal cannabis retailers stay compliant.
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[The Cannabis CPA] Laura Durham Finds Her Niche

Required of clients: a legal bank account or detailed cash logs.

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A proponent of marijuana since college, Laura Durham, CPA, went into private industry after a stint at Arthur Andersen. She worked at a beef company, a software company and later at a manufacturing company.

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It was during this time the course of her life changed.

Recently divorced, with primary custody of two children, she found herself overwhelmed by the demands of full-time corporate life. So, when a consultant colleague asked her if she’d consider going out on her own to help cannabusinesses in need, Durham gave it some thought and decided to go for it, launching Kind Accounting out of her home in Loveland, Colorado.

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[The Cannabis CPA] Matt Karnes, Greenwave Consultants

Listen to Karnes discuss the tsunami of institutional investors flooding the market.

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By 2022, Matthew Karnes, CPA, said he expects every state in the country will have implemented either a medical-only or a fully legal cannabis market to reach $35 billion in retail sales.

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Karnes, who is founder of GreenWave Advisors, talks about his projections for the industry’s growth.

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[The Cannabis CPA] Cristina Garza, CannaComply

New accounting tech is at the heart of her practice.

By Liz Gold
CannaBizCPA.Pro

When Cristina Garza launched her cannabis accounting and payroll company, CannaComply, back in 2014, she wanted to make sure she understood the nuances and complexities of the industry.

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A new transplant to Denver, Garza was already running Accountingprose, an accounting company providing bookkeeping, payroll and advisory to small businesses. If you haven’t seen her website you should – she dubs her team “small business superheroes” and calls herself “Chief Number Cruncher” in her email signature.

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