Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping with confidence!
Wondering if using bookkeeping software or spreadsheets for your handmade or creative business bookkeeping is a better choice? Well, you aren’t alone – it’s a tough question and doing the research makes it an even tougher decision. And, let’s face it, I KNOW that most handmade or creative business owners DETEST doing their books and …
Feeling like your bookkeeping is a MESS? Need to clean it up BEFORE tax time rolls around? You aren’t alone. I was chatting with a handmade business owner the other day who told me: I’m great at cranking out products and scheduling craft fairs. I’m scrambling at tax time. I have no sense of my …
Did you know that your Profit & Loss Report is trying to tell you 7 key things about your handmade or creative business. Do you know what they are and what it’s trying to tell you? Many business owner’s think that a Profit & Loss Report (or Income Statement) is just a bunch of numbers …
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. …
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 …
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 …