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It requires you fit into one of their accepted categories and about 8-10 months normally. If you expedite it, it may take as little as 2-4 months.

I was able to get mine done in about 3ish months.

I wouldn't try to separate bookkeeping from accounting too much. As a cpa, the lines are blurred too often because we're usually making decisions and adjustments along the way.

But, a little information can definitely be dangerous. It can be a huge time sink to "restate" the books to suit someone's vision and at worst it allows people to misrepresent the information.

I always appreciate new ways to make accounting easier. A lot of accounting should be automated because most of it is ministerial.

But, I do thinking that financials are something that each person should learn a bit more about. I find it too common that people aren't spending enough time to understand what their financials are trying to tell them. For example, they're generate awesome revenues, but failing to convert it into cash fast enough to meet their debts (statement of cash flows).

Always a fan of everyone gaining financial literacy =).

I agree with essentially everything Tom suggests. I think that trademarks (TM) is something a lot of people forget to use, registered (R) trademarks is something I generally tell people to avoid because its often not going to help unless you have a significant amount of intangible monetary value. It does offer some protection like Tom suggests, but clearly it's not full proof. Still its better than nothing.

I would've cut down on communicating with the person. He's obviously illiterate and his income is fueled by fraud. In my experience, you give them a single friendly but frank email with 24 hours to respond and then you just have to go through the proper channels. In this case removing his domain.

I'd like to believe the good in people. But, this individual's conduct from the outset demonstrates bad faith.