1. Conduct Mid-Year Reviews Summer is a great time to stop and reflect on your accomplishments. Both you and your employees can benefit from a getaway and self reflection. Take some time to conduct performance reviews, encourage your employees and clear your mind. The best business owners take time to review their progress.

1. Use paper & electronics for your bookkeeping. Keeping books on paper sounds like a hassle, we know! But trust us, it’s worth it. Electronic bookkeeping can go wrong in so many ways. The mess of unbalanced numbers doesn’t always make sense and if an emergency happens, your accounts go out with it. Keeping records Continue Reading →

Bookkeeping: Bookkeeping is NOT accounting. A bookkeeper resolves bank statements, writes checks and makes deposits. Outsourcing: Outsourcing can be an intimidating word, but it means the same thing as hiring from outside your company. When it comes to your bookkeeping, you need someone reliable and a lot of the times an MBA on your staff Continue Reading →

Running a business is no easy task and much of your attention is focused on your progress. Small checkpoints can go by unfinished and little issues can turn into big problems. By the time many small businesses hit a rough patch, it may be too late to salvage their situation. To avoid some of the Continue Reading →

Are you ready to focus your time and resources where they’ll be most productive? Manually entering payroll through complicated systems is a tedious distraction from what really helps your business succeed, because trying to do things yourself through traditional methods opens you up to human error, wasted time and lost money.

As a small business owner, there’s no need to feel intimidated by your bookkeeping efforts. We’ve put together a short list of tips to get you started in the right direction.

Whether you’re one of those business owners who needs to do everything by hand or simply doesn’t trust technology — we get it. Everyone has their own method of keeping their books balanced. However, with the exceptional advancements in technology, using a reputable software can save you significant amounts of time and money for your Continue Reading →

No matter the situation, we know that being contacted by the IRS can be nerve-racking and intimidating. Whether you see the name scroll across the caller ID or just in their letterhead, our hearts tend to beat a little faster. And rightfully so. For Pete’s sake, it’s the IRS. They’re likely after your money and Continue Reading →

Sure, it may seem odd, but this topic is a valid question that needs answering. Bookkeeping is meant to simply keep track of your business accounts and transactions, right? But as a small business owner, can it provide you with even MORE benefits? Let’s explore.

Are you an entrepreneur who’s reluctant to hire an accountant to handle your finances? That’s not a problem. With today’s technology and our guidance, keeping your books in order is much easier than it used to be. Here are 4 quick tricks to manage your own accounts.