Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
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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.
Revenue and Profit are two totally different things in your handmade business. Don’t get confused between these two terms. To get straight to the point. Revenue is the money you make by selling your finished items or patterns. Profit is what’s left after paying your expenses. Many handmade business owners get totally confused by the …
Finished items inventory is this weeks topic. If you’ve been wondering how to track your inventory of finished items using spreadsheets, I’ll teach you how in this blog post. Keeping track of inventory is tough. There are so many moving pieces that you need to keep track of. Materials and supplies that you buy and …
The results for the quiz asking if your bookkeeping needs are simple or complex ARE IN!!!!!!! Are you excited? I’m so excited to share the results with you. In case you missed last weeks blog post, which was a Quiz: Your handmade business bookkeeping – Is it simple or complex. If you missed it, you …
Learn how to record an Owner’s Draw in your bookkeeping records for your handmade or creative business. An Owner’s Draw is: money you take out of your business to pay or repay yourself NOT a business expense, so it should not show up on your Profit & Loss Report part of your businesses Equity, so …
Learn how to record an Owner Contribution in your bookkeeping records for your handmade or creative business. An Owner Contribution is: money that you take out of your own pocket or the family finances/budget to fund your handmade or creative business NOT Income for your business tracked on the Balance Sheet in the Equity Section …
Basically, you have two types of income: Income from the goods and services that you sell directly to others, and Money you receive from 3rd parties (ad revenue, commissions, etc.) It’s really important that you track each of these types of revenue separately. Let’s talk about income for your handmade or creative business. I’m betting …
What do you want the bookkeeping system for your handmade business to tell you? Oh sorry, didn’t mean to put you on the spot like that – I know it’s a really personal question. Maybe it’s a question no one has ever asked you or something you’ve never even thought about. I mean, seriously, how …