Imagine that a new client comes to you with “the dreaded shoebox” of bank reconciliations, receipts, and bills. The client is a year or so behind, and you are hired to get them caught up. Do you take that client, knowing you’ll be swamped doing data entry
Read more →If you have small business clients that don’t pay attention to their accounting as much as you would like them to, you are likely not alone. The problem is that most of us accountants give up on those types of clients who seem apathetic to our passion
Read more →After over 30 years in this profession, accounting has never been more promising and more exciting. The main reason is technology is driving data entry costs so low that it’s just about to disappear. That means we can finally focus on helping small businesses get more out
Read more →Mobile accounting has definitely arrived. There are some great new apps that extend core accounting systems’ functionality into our mobile devices. Let’s take a look at a few of them for small business. QuickBooks Mobile QuickBooks Mobile is available for clients using either the desktop or online
Read more →If you were making resolutions for the accounting industry, what would you suggest? Here are five for your consideration: 1. Recognize how valuable your skills are I’ve worked with a lot of accountants who do not realize how valuable their skills are in the marketplace. Most people
Read more →We’ve worked super-hard on gaining our accounting, tax, and auditing skills. Those skills alone will keep us working as employees for someone else, but what if we want to go out on our own or grow our business beyond what we have now? Here are five skills
Read more →As compliance services become more commoditized and automated, accountants are faced with how this affects their practice and their bottom line. They can: Serve a higher level client that requires greater complexity, making themselves fairly immune to these changes Serve a larger number of clients to offset
Read more →WordPress is a free platform for blogs. It has been around for several years, and has skyrocketed in popularity. You can use WordPress for your accounting or QuickBooks website as well and combine your accounting blog and your accounting website in one smooth installation. The 2 huge
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