Yes, it’s that time of year when all small businesses have the opportunity to account for what went well last year, and to identify what needs to be fixed or changed.

Sure, filing taxes can be stressful, even emotionally painful. But as any business strategist knows, the ability to manage money is the key to small-business success.

So we offer some financial food for thought in the April 2015 issue of Be Inkandescent magazine.

• Our Entrepreneur of the Month Michael Egan, CFP®, helps us take a bite out of the stress of filing our 2014 taxes. A founding partner of the financial services firm Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC, he offers Seven Tips to Remember Before You File Your Taxes.

• How do entrepreneurs really feel about paying taxes? This month’s cover story features thoughts from small-business owner and author Lisa McLeod, who recently had an epiphany: How I Reframed Paying My Taxes: Why Self-Talk Matters.

• Our Book of the Month is LouAnn Lofton’s best-selling finance book, Warren Buffet Invests Like a Girl, and Why You Should, Too.

• We welcome our newest Inkandescent PR client, Michael Vidikan and his firm, Future in Focus. In May, we’ll be launching his new magazine, which will give business owners insights into the international business and consumer trends that are shaping the future. Get a jump start with this month’s money-related brief on the future of Bitcoin.

• Speaking of the future, CFP® Bryan Beatty alerts us to the latest Best Practices Proposed for Advisers and Brokers Seeking to Meet True Fiduciary Standard.

• We also asked Beatty’s business partner Michael Egan to offer thoughts about what we need to know about Millennials and Money. What do the Millennials think about this idea? Our Inkandescent Interns interviewed Virginia Commonwealth University senior Alberto Francese, a member of the Gamma Iota Sigma finance fraternity, who offered his perspective in this month’s Millennials column.
  Picture by our VCUarts photo intern, Anna Paige Gibbs

• Last, but not least, in our Food column we address the controversial concept of the Fat Tax. Do you think the overweight among us should be taxed for their poor eating habits? Send us an email to chime in on the controversy.

We leave you with this parting thought from Warren Buffet: “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make fewer impulse decisions, than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

Wishing you much wealth in your business, as well as your mind, body, and spirit. — Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Be Inkandescent magazine • founder, Inkandescent Public Relations