Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
Learn bookkeeping basics for your handmade or creative business from a handmade business owner and professional bookkeeper with 30+ years of experience.
It seems that when it comes to handmade or creative businesses everyone offers up all kinds of advice on:
Few people talk about the behind the scenes stuff – like setting up and using a system to track your financial information.
If they do, it’s either more of a passing thought, like:
Oh, you need to keep track of your finances
OR, the information that they do offer about bookkeeping is JUST PLAIN WRONG, like:
Including the sales tax you collect is included in your income!
OR, they offer you a free downloadable spreadsheet – but don’t tell you HOW to use it!
Sure, these people mean well – but they just have NO BUSINESS offering bookkeeping advice, because they aren’t bookkeepers!
This means that, potentially, you could run into a LOT of trouble.
I’m here to change that.
It’s my goal to help you handle all of your bookkeeping tasks with confidence.
In the world of handmade business, keeping track of every penny is vital for success. But fear not, fellow artisans! With our easy-to-use handmade business bookkeeping spreadsheet system, you’ll sail through financial management like a pro. Say goodbye to the stress of guesswork and hello to clarity and confidence!
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In this post I talked about the importance of “owning your sales information” so you can focus your pattern design and marketing efforts on patterns and platforms that generate the most revenue for you by tracking your pattern sales in spreadsheets.
How to categorize craft business expenses is really pretty simple. By the time you finish reading this post you’ll be ready to tackle the task at hand. Categorizing craft business expenses can be totally overwhelming and confusing for new handmade, creative or craft business owners. Heck, even some of us who’ve had a handmade business …