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!
I get it, you want to use spreadsheets to do the bookkeeping for your creative or handmade biz. But spreadsheets were NOT designed to replace a real bookkeeping & accounting program.
You’ve probably heard how easy spreadsheets are to use – they are, BUT not when it comes to bookkeeping.
You have a Google account, Google Sheets is FREE! Sure, who can resist free……
Excel and Google Sheets are great for:
But when it comes to keeping track of:
Excel and Google Sheets fail miserably.
Unless of course you LIKE to enter the same dollar amounts in multiple spreadsheets, multiple times a month!
If you don’t like entering the same dollar amounts in multiple sheets, multiple times a month – it’s little wonder that YOU HATE BOOKKEEPING!
But, if you are absolutely certain that spreadsheets are the way you to do the bookkeeping for your creative biz, this section provides you tips, tricks and techniques to make them work for you….to a point.
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