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“Your Business is Only as Good as Your Accounting System” by Dave Baldwin
This article may be a rude awakening for a number of small businesses. You may bake the best cupcakes, deliver the best massages, or engineer the fastest and most secure computer systems, and still…
Accounting Technological Changes: Fear, Abuse, or Embrace?
At my first job (as an accounting intern for a midsized corporation), we ran reports in Excel and did manual daily bank reconciliations. When I got to college, my accounting practice sets were on…
Getting Ready for Year-End Starts Now
You may be lamenting the fact that stores already have Halloween decorations out but, here at The Bookkeeper, we are already preparing for year-end. In an effort to help our clients (and everyone…
Planning to rent out a home? Be prepared.
Everyone likes a little extra income, and the "sharing" economy has made that easier than ever. For those with a second property, options like Airbnb and VRBO have become very popular as means of…
What to Look for in Hiring a Bookkeeper
As your business grows, you will reach a point where you need to seriously consider hiring a bookkeeper. Unfortunately, bookkeeping is still a very un-regulated industry. Anyone can market his or…
If all taxes were abolished tomorrow, you would still need a bookkeeper.
From about January to April, every finance professional's primary focus (or at least primary source of frustration) is taxes: getting ready for taxes, doing taxes, answering so (so) many questions…