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.
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: The most popular option was “how to set up a bookkeeping system using spreadsheets” and I have …
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 …
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 …
There are so many different ways of keeping track of your business receipts and keep the paperwork organized for your handmade business, here are a few tips that I find most helpful. We purchase something in a store and we’re asked “Would you like a receipt?” from the person checking us out. Unfortunately, we hear …
Tracking income and expenses by venue or customer and the various jobs/projects you do for them is something every handmade business owner will want or need to do at some point. We might want to know which craft fair we spent the most money on and the amount of money that we made from that …