Bookkeeping Blogs

The Power of Partnership: Bookkeeping and CPA Collaboration

Tax season can be stressful for business owners. It often means spending extra time with your certified public accountant (CPA) to ensure they have all the necessary documents. If you want to streamline the process, consider how working with a bookkeeper throughout the year can...

What Can a QuickBooks ProAdvisor Do for You?

When you’re a business owner, your finances are critical for survival. Being an entrepreneur or a new small business owner typically means being the bookkeeper for some time. If you know you won’t be able to manage or have run out of time and energy to track...

Guide to Airbnb Bookkeeping

Accounting and bookkeeping for Airbnb properties are essential for keeping track of all rental income and expenses. Doing so ensures the business stays organized and taxes are accurately reported. Most importantly, these practices help you make informed business decisions to keep cash flowing and your...

How to Add a New Bank Account to QuickBooks Online

Staying on top of your business's finances is crucial. By this point, you've likely moved away from manual bookkeeping and are considering cloud-based solutions like QuickBooks Online (QBO). This software provides a 360-degree view of your financial records all in one place, and you can...

How to Pay Bills in QBO

Gone are the days of paying vendors and suppliers one electronic funds transfer or hand-written check at a time. Knowing how to pay bills in QuickBooks Online (QBO) streamlines the bill-paying process, saving you valuable time and resources. After setting up your bills in QBO,...

What Is Bookkeeping?

  Bookkeeping involves more than numbers and spreadsheets — it's the process of recording each of your business' financial transactions. Whether you've been an entrepreneur for years or you're only getting started, you can improve your finances. Bookkeeping gives you an accurate view of your organization's...

The Importance of Bank Reconciliations for Small Businesses

In a perfect world, what's left in your business bank account at the end of the month would align with what your company spent or earned that month. That doesn't always happen, though, due to delays in payment processing or deposits. A discrepancy between your...

How QuickBooks Makes Your Life Easier

Owners of small businesses have a lot on their plates and must become masters at multitasking. Dealing with customers, supervising employees, running day-to-day operations and trying to think of ways to improve their business may not leave enough time for managing essential administrative tasks like...

6 Ways to Recover Your Small Business In 2022

While the pandemic and lockdown impacted businesses of all sizes, small businesses took the hardest hit in 2020. As a small business owner, you may not know where and how to start recovering from your losses. While there's no way to predict what's in store...

Should Your Business Outsource Its Payroll Services?

Payroll is often an overlooked priority, and busy business owners don't always have the time to do it. This leads many to the question — should a business outsource payroll? While some business owners choose to handle payroll in-house through a payroll app or manual bookkeeping, others...

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