Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping with confidence!
A behind the scenes look @ yarnybookkeeper.com. What goes on and some new offerings that will appear in the very near future. This is a very different type of blog post – in fact it’s not one of my normal blog posts at all. It’s more of a behind the scenes glance at what’s going …
Tools, Apps & Tips for going digital in a paper world is our topic this week. Going digital in a paper world can create quite a few stumbling blocks – change can be difficult and you do need to be organized! Sometimes the stumbling blocks happen because we just can’t wrap our heads around the …
Internet safety is often overlooked, you need to protect yourself and your information in this online world that we live in. The internet is a wonderful thing – it puts a ton of information at our fingertips and allows us to come into contact with people from all over the world. We’re no longer limited …
Spreadsheets – I really do love them and I use them for a LOT of behind the scenes things in both my handmade business and here on yarnybookkeeper.com. Spreadsheets are versatile and there are lot of different ways that they can be used without the huge learning curve of creating mathematical formulas, macro’s, pivot tables, …
Tax preparer, business advisor, accountants and bookkeepers are all terms that you’ll hear in the business world. These terms are quite confusing to any business owner – not just a creative or handmade business owner. In this article I’ll provide you with information about each of these professionals and what they do. The term “Tax …
Bookkeeping using software, will cost you money- but it is going to SAVE you a LOT of time in the long run! Unlike spreadsheets, which we talked about last week, bookkeeping software costs money. Money is something that many handmade or creative business owners lack, especially when they are just starting out. BUT, time is …
Bookkeeping using spreadsheets was the most popular answer to a poll I created this week in my Free Facebook community. I asked the members of the community to tell me what they would like to learn more about: creating a bookkeeping system using spreadsheets setting up QuickBooks Online to do your books using QuickBooks Desktop …
As TAX time quickly approaches, I’m betting most of us wish we had a bookkeeping fairy to turn to for advice (or one that could simply work her magic and our books would be done). Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a bookkeeping fairy – but I can offer up some advice. Unfortunately, there …
Getting the bookkeeping for your creative biz under control should be a high priority for every handmade business owner. If you are serious about running a creative or handmade biz you need to be serious about doing your bookkeeping. Over the next few week, I’ll be giving you some tips to help you turn over …
Tax time is almost here in the U.S. and that means it’s time to review your bookkeeping records and reports. For some of us, it may actually mean several days of grueling data entry. Either way, once the data is entered, you need to carefully review your reports for accuracy. For most of us here …
Bookkeeping mistakes happen – I get it – they happen to the best of us. But sometimes bookkeeping mistakes happen because of something we read on the internet written by people who mean well. I want to warn you: Not everyone out there is qualified to give you bookkeeping advice! AND, not everything you read …
A physical year-end inventory is an absolute MUST for every creative or handmade business owner. Let me start by saying that inventory is an animal all of it’s own. Inventory, just like any animal, needs constant attention. EVERY creative or handmade biz that has inventory MUST: do a physical inventory when you decide to start …
