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Written by Dave the way he explains things across a table: plain language, honest numbers, and no scare tactics. Start with whatever question is keeping you up.
Yes. A CPA prepares your taxes and advises on strategy, usually looking backward once a year. A bookkeeper keeps your records accurate every month, which is what your CPA files from. They're different jobs, and your CPA will be glad you hired one.
Your chart of accounts is the filing system every transaction lands in, and it decides whether your reports mean anything. Here's how it works, why the default setup fails most businesses, and what a good one looks like.
A month of bookkeeping is done when transactions are categorized, every account is reconciled, invoices and bills are current, payroll matches the provider, and reports are produced and read. Here's the full checklist, in order.
A bookkeeper records and organizes every transaction in your business, reconciles your accounts, and produces the monthly reports that tell you whether you're making money. Here's the full job, in plain language.
Ask about certifications, reconciliation habits, who does the work, access boundaries, communication speed, and how they'll explain your reports. Here are the 12 questions that separate professionals from disappointments, with the answers to listen for.
You dread the books, tax season hurts, the bank balance surprises you, and receipts live in a shoebox. Here are the 8 signs owners recognize themselves in, and what changes when the books get handled.
DIY bookkeeping makes sense when volume is low and you actually do it. The math flips when your hours are worth more than the service costs, or when 'doing it yourself' quietly becomes 'not doing it.' Here's the honest comparison.
Most small businesses pay somewhere between $300 and $800 a month for outsourced bookkeeping, with simple books coming in lower and high-volume or catch-up situations higher. Here's what moves the number, and why it's usually less than owners fear.
The bookkeeping mistakes that cost small businesses real money: skipped reconciliation, overstated income, misclassified loans, borrowing from payroll taxes, and mixing personal spending. Here's each one, why it hurts, and the fix.
If your reports don't match reality, your accounts haven't been reconciled in months, or 'Ask My Accountant' is your biggest category, your books need a cleanup. Here are the signs, and what a professional cleanup involves.
CPA-ready books mean every account reconciled through December 31, income complete, loans and payroll recorded correctly, and documentation for anything unusual. Here's the checklist, and the timeline that makes January calm instead of terrible.
Mixing business and personal spending blurs your profit picture, weakens your tax position, and can pierce the legal protection your LLC exists to provide. Here's how the damage works and the 4 moves that fix it.
Books that are months or years behind get fixed the same way: gather the records, rebuild each month, reconcile everything, and land on current books. Here's the honest process, timeline, and cost logic, from a bookkeeper who has rebuilt worse.
Profit is an opinion about a period; cash is what's in the account when payroll runs. Here's how profitable businesses run out of money, the timing traps that cause it, and the simple weekly habit that prevents it.
A P&L reads top to bottom: revenue, minus cost of goods sold, equals gross profit; minus operating expenses, equals net profit. Here's each line in plain language, plus the 5 questions a P&L can answer about your business.
If you are self-employed and your tax strategy is built to show as little income as possible, it is working against you the day you apply for a mortgage or sell the business. From a bookkeeper who spent years reading self-employed tax returns from the lender's side.
Property-level books come down to 4 things: class tracking so every dollar lands on the right property, capital improvements separated from operating expenses, rent and deposits reconciled, and a net operating income you can actually trust at refi time.
Restaurant books live or die on 4 things: prime cost tracked weekly, food and liquor margins split, POS payouts reconciled properly, and cash handled with discipline. From a bookkeeper who owned 2 pubs for over a decade.
Book a free consultation. Dave will look at where your books stand, tell you what they need in plain language, and you will know if it's a fit. If you're embarrassed about the state of things, don't be. He's seen worse.
