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!
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.
When you create an overall budget for your business, your Revenue and Expense budgets get “married” – so to speak. Together they can tell you all kinds of wonderful financial things about your business including: All this month we talked about budgets (exciting stuff I know :-D) Are you ready? Let’s create a budget! You’ll want …
Creating an expense budget for your creative or handmade business helps you not only make the dollars you spend work for you, but also prevents your dollars from flying out the door! It also provides you with the amount of your fixed costs that you need to pay each month or year – even IF …
Spreadsheets – I really do love them and I use them for a LOT of behind the scenes things in both my handmade business and here on yarnybookkeeper.com. Spreadsheets are versatile and there are lot of different ways that they can be used without the huge learning curve of creating mathematical formulas, macro’s, pivot tables, …
Are you struggling to keep track of the costs of your handmade items? It’s essential for handmade business owners to accurately determine the expenses associated with each finished product. That’s where the Project Costs & Pricing Worksheet comes in. This free tool eliminates guesswork, allowing you to calculate costs, set appropriate selling prices, and stay organized. Say goodbye to relying on memory or sticky notes covered in numbers. Subscribe to our newsletter and get your own copy of the worksheet today.