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Some good news for small businesses to start October. 👀Last month, I shared that small-business revenue had slowed down....
10/04/2026

Some good news for small businesses to start October. 👀

Last month, I shared that small-business revenue had slowed down.
Well...the newest numbers just came out, and September looked quite a bit better.

According to the October QuickBooks Small Business Index, average small-business revenue increased 1.68% in September. Revenue increased in 11 out of 12 industries and across every U.S. region tracked. QuickBooks

But here's the part I think matters most: One good month doesn't tell the whole story. Neither does one bad month. That's why I like looking at trends. Is your revenue actually growing over time? Are your expenses growing faster than your sales? Are you keeping more of what you're making? Is your cash balance telling the same story as your P&L?

Those answers tell you a whole lot more about your business than one month's sales number. So I'm curious — how was September for your business? Better, worse, or about the same as August?

Most business owners I talk to did not start their business because they were excited about reconciling a credit card st...
10/02/2026

Most business owners I talk to did not start their business because they were excited about reconciling a credit card statement. They started because they were good at something. Then somewhere along the way they became the salesperson, customer service department, marketing department, HR department, janitor...and bookkeeper. 😂 Doing everything yourself works for a while, but as the business grows, there usually comes a point where something has to come off your plate.

For some people, bookkeeping is one of the first things. Not because you can’t do it, but because your time may be better spent doing the things only you can do for your business. If your bookkeeping is constantly getting pushed to “when I have time,” that might be your sign. And if it’s already six months behind...that is definitely your sign. 😂 No judgment. It happens. That’s literally what cleanup bookkeeping is for.

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Yes, there is data entry involved. But if bookkeeping were literally just typing numbers into QuickBooks, I would have p...
09/30/2026

Yes, there is data entry involved. But if bookkeeping were literally just typing numbers into QuickBooks, I would have picked a much easier career. 😂 There is a lot happening behind the scenes: reconciling accounts, finding missing transactions, figuring out why a balance doesn’t make sense, cleaning up old errors, reviewing reports, fixing transactions that were posted incorrectly, and trying to determine what someone meant when they categorized something as “Ask My Accountant” eight months ago.

There is a lot of investigation involved. The goal isn’t just to get information into QuickBooks. The goal is to make sure the information coming out of QuickBooks is accurate enough to actually use. That’s a big difference.

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I think some business owners hear “outsource your bookkeeping” and picture hiring another employee. That isn’t what it h...
09/28/2026

I think some business owners hear “outsource your bookkeeping” and picture hiring another employee. That isn’t what it has to look like. A lot of small businesses do not need someone sitting in an office 40 hours a week doing accounting. They just need someone who can keep the books updated, reconcile the accounts, clean up issues when they happen, and give them financial reports they can actually use.

That can all be done remotely. You keep running your business, and I handle the books. Pretty simple. For a lot of business owners, the biggest benefit isn’t even the bookkeeping itself, it’s knowing they don’t have to think about it every night when they get home. If you could hand off one part of your bookkeeping tomorrow, what would it be?

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I completely understand why business owners do their own bookkeeping, especially when the business is new. You’re trying...
09/26/2026

I completely understand why business owners do their own bookkeeping, especially when the business is new. You’re trying to keep expenses down, and bookkeeping feels like something you can just handle yourself. And sometimes you absolutely can. But I think people forget to put a value on their own time.

If you spend five hours on Sunday trying to figure out why QuickBooks is off, that cost you five hours. Maybe those five hours could have been spent working with customers, following up on leads, growing the business, or, I don’t know, actually having a Sunday. 😂 There comes a point where paying someone to do something you hate or something that takes you three times as long isn’t just an expense. Sometimes you’re buying your time back. What’s one business task you would happily never do again?

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The Balance Sheet does not get nearly as much attention as the Profit & Loss. I get it, the P&L is easier. “Did I make m...
09/24/2026

The Balance Sheet does not get nearly as much attention as the Profit & Loss. I get it, the P&L is easier. “Did I make money?” The Balance Sheet looks a little more intimidating, but it tells you some really important things, like how much cash the business has, how much customers owe you, how much debt the business carries, what you owe vendors or credit cards, and what the business actually owns.

Think of it this way: your P&L tells you how the business performed over a period of time, while your Balance Sheet tells you where the business stands right now. You really need both. Be honest, do you ever look at your Balance Sheet, or do you immediately go straight to the P&L? 😂

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This is one of those things that surprises business owners. You can have every transaction in QuickBooks categorized and...
09/22/2026

This is one of those things that surprises business owners. You can have every transaction in QuickBooks categorized and still have a mess. Clean books mean more than getting rid of everything sitting in the bank feed. The accounts need to reconcile, the balances need to make sense, loans need to match what is actually owed, credit cards need to match the statements, and old balances and duplicate transactions need to be investigated.

Sometimes cleanup work is basically accounting detective work, especially when I’m trying to figure out what happened six months or two years ago. 😂 So if everything in QuickBooks has a category next to it, that’s a good start. It just isn’t necessarily the finish line. Do you know whether your accounts actually reconcile?

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Business owners ask this question more often than you would think. Your Profit & Loss says you made money, but your bank...
09/20/2026

Business owners ask this question more often than you would think. Your Profit & Loss says you made money, but your bank account says...absolutely not. 😂 And both can be correct. Profit and cash are not the same thing. You may have money tied up in accounts receivable, made loan payments, purchased equipment, or paid down credit cards and other debt. There are all kinds of things that affect your cash without showing up the way you might expect on your P&L.

That’s why I always say you really need to look at your financial statements together. Your P&L tells part of the story, your Balance Sheet tells another part, and your Statement of Cash Flows helps explain where the cash actually went. Have you ever looked at your profit and thought, “Okay...but where is the money?”

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I know what most people do when they open a Profit & Loss Statement. They scroll straight to Net Income, see whether the...
09/18/2026

I know what most people do when they open a Profit & Loss Statement. They scroll straight to Net Income, see whether the number is positive or negative, and close the report. 😂 But there is a whole lot of useful information sitting above that number. Are your expenses going up? Is revenue increasing but profit staying the same? Did one expense category suddenly double? Are you spending more in one area than you realized?

Your P&L isn’t just there to tell you whether you made money. It can tell you what is actually happening inside your business. Next time you run yours, compare it to the previous month instead of just looking at the bottom. You may notice something you hadn’t seen before. Do you actually look through your P&L every month?

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QuickBooks is really good at making bookkeeping easier. It can pull transactions in from the bank, suggest categories, c...
09/16/2026

QuickBooks is really good at making bookkeeping easier. It can pull transactions in from the bank, suggest categories, create rules, and generate reports. What it cannot do is know your business the way you do. It doesn’t always know whether that $2,500 purchase was equipment, supplies, a loan payment, an owner expense, or something else entirely. And sometimes QuickBooks is very confidently wrong. 😂

Automation is helpful, and I use it all the time, but somebody still needs to look at what’s happening and ask, “Does this actually make sense?” Clicking “accept” on everything in the bank feed is not the same as bookkeeping. If you use QuickBooks, do you review the suggestions before accepting them?

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