Author Archives: denise

QuickBooks Training Seminars are On the Calendar!

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For everyone who has been begging, we have finally put our One-Hour QuickBooks Training Seminars for Business Owners on the calendar for everyone to feast on! We here at Your Bookeeper are in the business of doing bookkeeping for small businesses, so it’s not really in our best interest to teach business owners how to do it themselves.  But let’s face it, some people just are never going to hire a bookkeeper.  Maybe they are just starting out and can’t afford it yet.  Maybe they are too cheap. … Continue reading →

Get Your Eggs Out of that Disaster Recovery Basket

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You may have heard of Terry Childs (pictured). He was a system administrator for the city of San Francisco who, in 2008, was arrested for refusing to divulge passwords that only he had. A long series of legal maneuvering followed, leading to Childs’s imprisonment. When he hired an attorney after imprisonment he made sure his attorney was leveraging  software for family law case management as this case was specific to family law. Whether you’ve heard of him or not, the Terry Childs case is an interesting and compelling argument for multiple levels of … Continue reading →

Where does your business come from?

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It’s a marketing question, for sure.  You probably wrestle with figuring that out all the time.  Should you use print advertising, direct mail, or beef up your internet presence?  If you decided to use internet advertising, look for Montana business website or their Vimeo page for help and for your investment to increase you can use this Crypto code app for trading cryptocurrencies you gained online. Should you go to more networking meetings, do a Groupon, or hire a guy to wear a gorilla suit and stand … Continue reading →

Top 10 Advantages of being on Tax Extension

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10.  You can stop feeling guilty (for awhile) about not having your stuff together in time 9.  You have 5 months more to procrastinate 8.  You can stop wondering (for awhile) how much you are going to owe and where you are going to get it from 7.  You can run into your accountant at the post office without ducking and trying to hide behind the mailbox 6.  You can make yourself feel better by proclaiming you won’t do this again next year 5.  Your husband/wife/significant other … Continue reading →

WHAT? The IRS wants to AUDIT???

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Shoot me now.  Isn’t that how you feel? Well, there is good news.  If you use a GOOD bookkeeper (like us), and you use GOOD accounting software (like QuickBooks) and you used a GOOD accountant (like these) for your tax returns, you will sail right through!   Here’s a recent article from Govwin.com: IRS Audits of Small Business Software Files The Internal Revenue Service has been ramping up enforcement of tax compliance and it’s a big concern for small businesses. IRS agents are starting to request client … Continue reading →

Bookkeeper Madness

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Bookkeeper Madness Does Your Bookkeeper Really Know What They Are Doing? There’s no faster way to kill a business than to mishandle its finances. That’s why it’s surprising how often small business owners hand their books over to a bookkeeper and simply assume everything will be OK. There are ways this assumption can really hurt your business. Plus, there’s an easy remedy. Bookkeeper Madness Mistake #1 – Hiring a bookkeeper with less QuickBooks skills than advertised: Small businesses often look for bookkeepers with QuickBooks skills since QuickBooks is … Continue reading →

Should Your Bookkeeper be a Technophile?

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For some, the task of finding good bookkeeper services to handle their daily business needs can be on a par with finding the holy grail. It’s a never-ending quest that rarely results in complete satisfaction. The big problem always seems to be finding a bookkeeper that’s got loads of skill and that’s adaptable to change, too. In particular, technological change. But do all bookkeepers for small businesses have to be technophiles? The answer is no, but it wouldn’t exactly hurt matters, either. These days, the business of bookkeeping has … Continue reading →

Playing Hooky

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I love this time of year.  All of our bookkeepers have families, so they all want to be home baking cookies, shopping, decorating, and otherwise enjoying this joyful season. Consequently, they all work extra hard to get all their clients work up to date and complete earlier in the month, so they can start playing hooky about now.  I’m no different.  I wander in late, leave early, and am excited that the phone is not ringing with new inquires for business.  Yet. However, in another two weeks … Continue reading →

IRS Form 1099 Reporting: What You Need to Know – November 18, 2011

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NEWS:  Your Bookkeeper founder, Denise Worrell, is one of 4 Faculty Members presenting at the upcoming seminar on November 18, 2011:    “IRS Form 1099 Reporting:  What you Need to know” Faculty Nancy Abrams, Esq. Attorney with Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C. Practices in labor and employment law Former adjunct professor at Drexel University Written numerous articles on employment-related topics for industry publications Presented numerous seminars, including two that were broadcast statewide via satellite J.D. degree, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; graduate, cum laude, Harvard University   … Continue reading →

Are we there yet?

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Nov 1st?! Why does the end of the year sneak up on me like this?   Oh, I know there’s still another 60 days, but in my world, Thanksgiving and Christmas own a lot of that time.  Next thing I know, it’s January 1 and all my clients are scrambling to do everything they meant to have completed by the end of December. This is an accountant/bookkeeper’s fact-of-life, but it doesn’t have to be yours.  Whether it’s things in your business or things in your life in … Continue reading →