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7 Personal Finance Tips Businesses Should Ignore
As a small business owner, the success of your business has a direct impact on your personal financial status. This doesn’t mean, however, that the same financial best practices that work for your...
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Fixing Your Credit Report
You’ve got a great idea and you want to get a business loan to kick things off, but your credit score is just a picture of a dumpster on fire. Meanwhile, I want to change my kid’s diaper and find a...
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15 Surprising Small Business Statistics
Updated September 2016. We’ve updated this post with a few new and interesting bits of information. The total now sits at 19 fun facts. The American small business landscape has changed. Online is the...
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Using Excel for Small Business Accounting
There are few skills in life that will make you look more like a wizard to the folks around you than a deep understanding of Excel. If you can rock a VLOOKUP or, better yet, some INDEX-MATCH action,...
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Xero and QuickBooks Online Compared
QuickBooks is the BAND-AID of accounting software. Massively popular in all its iterations – online and installed – it’s the product people are most likely to turn to based on brand recognition alone....
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Top Expense Management Apps for Travel
Managing your expenses is somewhere close to half of the battle in running a successful business. When you or your team members are on the road – or even just down at the local coffee shop – losing...
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5 Ways to Protect Your Business Finances
As a business owner, you have to safeguard the quality of your product and your brand image so your clients respect your company and give it as much business as possible. However, behind the scenes,...
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5 Great Books for Accountants
The holidays are right around the corner and you deserve something nice. You also deserve something that’s going to make you a better employee without breaking the bank. Oh, hi there, Mr. Books. I...
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The Top 20 Most User-Friendly Accounting Software Report
All companies have income and expenses, which means all companies have to find a means of tracking and analyzing those transactions. Unfortunately, tracking finances in your business is a detailed...
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The Top 20 Most Affordable Accounting Software Report
Accounting can be a very tedious, detail-oriented process where a missed period or misplaced number can have drastic consequences. Tracking transactions, managing bills, and invoicing customers can...
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How to Develop a System for Selecting Accounting Software
This article is based off a talk I gave at Accountex 2016 in Las Vegas. Being a trusted advisor means being the expert in a wide range of topics. For accountants, earning client trust comes from doing...
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The Top 5 Accounting Trends from Accountex 2016
Last week, I spoke at Accountex 2016. After my talk, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend some of the week’s most interesting sessions. In doing so, I got a great view of what the future looks...
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5 Awesome Free and Open Source Reporting Software Packages
You know the trope. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Whether that’s true or not, being able to measure how well your strategies and tactics are working definitely helps inform what to...
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Great Personal Finance Resources for Entrepreneurs
If you’re jumping into the entrepreneurial world, you’re going to need to keep a keen eye on your finances. I don’t just mean your business finances, either. I mean you need to keep an eye on your bank...
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13 Great Apps for Startups
The best thing about a startup? The ability to direct your own growth, the chance to nurture your own product, and the opportunity to organize your own team. The scariest thing about a startup? The...
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5 Fantastic Small Business Payroll Services Compared
Updated 21 December 2016. I’ve added one more option for small business payroll management. If you didn’t have to hire, manage, and pay employees, life would be a lot easier. Unfortunately, that plan...
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How to be an Accountant – New Year, New Job
You’re looking out over the holiday horizon and breathing a sigh of relief. 2016 jumped on you like a cheetah on a sick antelope, and you’re ready to shake this whole thing off and start fresh. Even...
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Invoicing Templates for Small Business
An invoice gives your clients a huge amount of information, but it really only tells them two things. First, that they owe you money. Second, how serious you are about collecting that money. If you’ve...
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Why You Need an Accountant Before Tax Season
Very few people love the idea of getting an accountant. Accountants are – unfairly, I think – thought of like utilities. No one gets up and goes to work everyday because they love paying for...
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How to Build Your First Budget
A great way to lose your customers, your employees, and perhaps your entire business is to spend every day blissfully unaware of how you’re going to have money in the bank to keep things working. No...
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