New year – fresh start. Cliché? Yes. Possible? Also, yes. Especially when it comes to your accounting and bookkeeping processes. In preparation for Q1 planning, you want accurate insights into your profitability, a strong cash position, and the confidence that you can fund your future business growth plans. (Review cleaning up your books.) Last week READ MORE
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Starting Strong: Productivity, Process, and People
Starting Strong: Part Two In our last post, we advised starting the new year off strong with clean books, which helps you control your financials and make better business decisions. Our advice to start by analyzing your Chart of Accounts applies to every industry. But different industries have different key performance indicators (KPIs) and various READ MORE
3 Key Reasons You Need a Bookkeeping Services Solution
There are bookkeeping solutions, software like QuickBooks and Xero, tools like Excel spreadsheets, or even manila folders or shoeboxes to be revisited around tax time. Then there are bookkeeping services, sometimes provided by a family member or friend or a paid bookkeeper – on staff or contracted – or even your CPA. But then there’s READ MORE
Recruitment Marketing – Attracting and Hiring the Right Candidates
The competition is fierce when hiring the right candidates. Many say it’s more difficult to find “A Players” than it is to find customers and clients. You are not alone in your conclusion that recruiting and hiring are hard! An understanding of the role marketing plays in the hiring process can help. Recruitment marketing can READ MORE
Time To Hire: Employee Or Contractor – Which Do You Need?
When it is time to hire people for your business, you need to ask some important questions. It is the right time to hire? Can I afford to hire someone now? Do I need someone full-time or will part-time be sufficient? These are all good questions. And, here is one key question we get asked READ MORE
6 Steps to Better Cash Flow
Take command of your cash flow. QuickBooks says sixty-one percent of small business owners regularly struggle with cash flow. Cash flow problems may seem particularly overwhelming, but managing cash can be challenging even when things are great. Here are six things you can change to improve your cash flow management. Stop Working for Free Have you READ MORE