Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping with confidence!
Are you REALLY ready to run a handmade or creative biz? Chances are you’ve read about how easy it is to become your own boss and have spent more hours than you care to admit fantasizing about becoming a handmade or creative biz owner – but, have you stopped to ask yourself if you’re REALLY …
When do I FINALLY get to pay myself? That’s a question most handmade business owners often ask and one that I hear a lot. Yes, you’ve been working really hard on your handmade or creative biz, the money is starting to roll in, and YES, you deserve to pay yourself. BUT, before you can figure …
Need a bookkeeping & accounting task checklist for your handmade or creative biz? Look no further – I’ve created a free one that you can download, WITHOUT giving up your name and email address or subscribing to my newsletter. Although I hope you will subscribe so you can take advantage of other freebies like this. …
Do you have a budget for your handmade or creative biz? Ya, I know, that’s kind of a personal question isn’t it? Sorry if it’s a little too personal – but here’s why I’m asking……… We’re half way into the year {YIKES!} Are you on track to meet your goals? Are you hitting your financial …
3 Things Every Handmade/Creative Biz Owner Must Do – Bookkeeping basics. 1) Open a separate biz checking account. 2) Do your bookkeeping. 3) Create a budget. These are 3 things every handmade or creative business owner must do. As if you don’t already have enough stuff on your plate to do being a small handmade …
Time tracking, the art of keeping detailed records of the amount of time you spend on EVERYTHING you do in your business. As handmade or creative business owners we tend to think that time tracking is only important when we are working on a project. That’s just not true. Time tracking is important and we …
Keeping on track of your numbers (finances) determines your success or failure. If you are constantly avoiding your bookkeeping you’ll never get a handle on your financial numbers. Bookkeeping & how to overcome your fear of numbers Bookkeeping & how to overcome your fear of numbers is this weeks topic, because I hear things like …
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 …
