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Back in the day, it used to be that if you kept books or if your accountant kept books for you, you basically did it on big fat ledgers. There were receipts and vouchers to keep track of, dozens of columns on every ledger page and so on. When business accounting software first made an appearance a couple of decades ago, small businesses had this way of scoffing at how they would never need anything like this. It was just pencil and paper for them as usual.

These days though, it's far easier and cheaper for any small business to use business accounting software than it would be for them to hire someone to laboriously use the old method (this is is seeming that you could even find anyone willing to do this anymore). But that isn't even just it. Business accounting software can make human error a thing of the past.

It can put all kinds of graphs in front of you at the touch of a button and show you things about how your business is doing that you would never have known otherwise. You can get sales reports for a certain period of time at a moment’s notice, you can see three kinds of graphs for how quickly inventory is moving, it can show you what kinds of things you do that are profitable or not so much, and so on.

The people who are unlucky enough to get a little extra special attention from the IRS – what is it that they do to deserve all the extra love when most tax returns are barely given a glance? What goes on behind a decision at the IRS that there is one particular tax return that must get the special IRS audit treatment?

The thing is, the IRS would happily issue the third degree to every tax return that came in. They make a lot more money this way. The only problem is that they don't have enough people to do the dirty work for them. They are somewhat short-staffed. Only one in a hundred tax return is actually flagged for an IRS audit. But is there some kind of reason why those people get caught instead of everyone else? Well, let's see, shall we?

With only 1% of all taxable public seeing their names come up for an IRS audit, you mustn't really worry about getting caught like it's about to happen tomorrow. If you really, really want to avoid an audit, you need to build a plan to make it happen.