Debt Consolidation vs. Bankruptcy: Which is Best for You

Whether bad household budgeting, job loss, or divorce is the cause of a financial crisis, the problem will not go away by itself. Consumers are generally faced with one of two options: debt consolidation or bankruptcy. Both are stressful and neither is particularly enjoyable to go through. The following will help you determine which route […]

How to Be a Better Bookkeeper

As bookkeepers, we have a certain responsibility. Let’s look at it like this. If the numbers are the lifeblood of a business then it is safe to say that we are the vein that carries that blood. If you don’t like that analogy then consider us the highway that moves the numbers around. No good […]

Five Finance Management Tips for SMBs

These are challenging times for Canadian SMBs, many of whom lack the clout of larger enterprises with which to weather the ongoing financial storm. But with careful financial management, it’s often possible to sail through to brighter skies and calmer waters. Here are our five top tips for effective financial management for SMBs: 1 – […]

How to Talk Your Way Out of Success

I’ve never been a fan of censorship. As a teenager, I thought I should be able to say whatever I want, and listen to whatever I want. I can still vividly remember the first time I bought a CD with a “Parental Advisory” sticker on it. There is, however, a word that I would like […]

Here’s Why Your Small Business May Not Need a Social Media Presence

Have you thought about your social media efforts lately? Everybody says you should devote time to building your presence but how much? Your business grows by concentrating your efforts on tasks that generate direct revenue but if you’re not investing time into growing the business, the business will slow to a halt. You can find […]

Paperwork Nostalgia

Today’s post is going out directly to my fellow bookkeepers and accountants. The topic…paper.  Nostalgia for the days before a paperless bookkeeping office. I have been noticing a difference in my attitude toward finished work. As of late, I haven’t had that same sense of accomplishment when a project was complete. There’s usually a very […]

Freshbooks – Automatic Expense Import

One of my big requests for Freshbooks is finally here! According to the latest post on the Freshbooks blog, this new feature is finally out of Beta, and available to all users.  What is Automatic Expense Import? Good question. It’s just a fancy way of saying that they can now pull in transactions from your […]

Tax Thursdays Are Back at Freshbooks

Yes, no matter how much you fight it, it’s that time of year again. It’s time to start thinking about your tax return.  The folks over at Freshbooks have begun their Tax Thursdays series on the blog again. Actually, I believe it started last week. Yesterday they put up my post called 5 Steps to […]

MacBook(keeper) – Initial Impressions

2013 is going to look a lot different than 2012…for many reasons.  One big change is the amount of time I’ll be working within OSX. Bookkeeping in MacOS I received a MacBook Pro not too long ago. Like anything new, there has been a learning curve. I can’t convince my fingers that the Ctrl + […]

2012 is Finally Over

I know, it’s a rather cynical title…but it would be a bold lie for me to feel anything short of relief that 2012 is finally coming to an end.  Most of this comes from a personal standpoint. I lost someone very close to me the first week of the year…and things just seemed to keep […]