Whether it’s ensuring your customers are happy or it’s perfecting your products and services, you’ll need to keep pushing on with a new business. With that said, there’s one area that’s often overlooked by small business owners: accounting. Even if you aren’t a financial expert, it’s absolutely necessary that you have some basic accounting knowledge so you can keep your … Read More
Benefits of Cloud Accounting
Mary runs a small digital marketing agency with a small team, serving business clients seeking to optimize their potential customers’ experience in interacting with their websites and social media platforms. As the business started to grow, Mary had neglected the financial aspect of her business and found that although sales were increasing, profitability was not. At … Read More
Questions to Ask Your Accountant
Before choosing an accountant to handle the nuts and bolts of your business’s numbers, first you might want to interview the accountant and found out how they conduct their own business matters. We visited this topic in a more general overview in the past, but this time let’s take a more in-depth look at questions to ask your accountant next … Read More
How To Protect Your Small Business
Small businesses have a lot to manage, and often without a lot of resources to do so. The focus is on keeping the business running smoothly, pleasing customers, and making a profit. But in today’s digital world of non-stop news headlines reporting data breaches and fraud, making security a priority is important no matter what size business you own or … Read More
Accounting can be sexy
The old system of accounting is really boring. If you are like most small business owners each month you ‘transact’ (making it, buying it and selling it) through a manual system, a spreadsheet, a timesheet, a cash register and/or a receipt or quote book. Then progressively through the month (or at the end of the month) the data would be … Read More
6 questions every business owner should ask about their accounting system
Cloud accounting is rapidly becoming the norm for how operators financially manage their businesses. If you haven’t yet made the switch or even taken a look at a cloud accounting solution for your business, then we’ve broken it down into some key questions you should consider: As a small business owner, do you think it’s important to know how much … Read More