BREATHE…BREATHE… OK, for us here at Your Bookkeeper, “tax season” is over. What that means is that all those last-minute tax-payers in a panic who swarmed in around the end of March have gotten their numbers to their accountants and are happily procrastinating again until next year. However, there is a litttle-known second tax season which begins at the end of September, when the real procrastinators panic. Those are the folks who took advantage of the 6-month tax extension and are in the exact same place as … Continue reading →

It’s buy your bookkeeper lunch week Seriously, do you know how hard we’re working about now? Clients are crying to us because they just gave us their stuff, and their accountants are yelling at us that they’re trying to get their tax returns done… We’re people, too, and lunch would be nice. But you’ll have to send it in, because we just don’t have time to stop right now. In fact, now that I’m thinking about it, how about lunch in July? That is, after all, my … Continue reading →

It’s COMING….”The Holidays.” You business owners probably define that as the two-month period of the year where you’re supposed to do everything you usually do, PLUS 10,000 other things (especially if you’re a woman–sorry men).  If you’re like most Americans, the way you’ll handle that is by getting less sleep. After all, there are a whole bunch of spare hours free for the taking every day (night) to cram all that stuff into. DON’T DO IT! Besides the fact that you’ll get cranky and no one will … Continue reading →

Did you ever just get bombarded by “stuff?”In the last month, my dear old dog died (16-1/2 years, we had a good run), I traveled to Florida to visit my mother post-heart attack, I attended a convention in Tennessee, I got a new puppy, I began searching for new housing marketo alternative for Mom in NJ, and I interviewed 10 people for a bookkeeping job. It happens –life runs us over when we’re not looking, and before you know it, a month or two have gone by … Continue reading →

It probably takes having a good bookkeeper to figure out which is more economical — having a good bookkeeper or doing your books yourself Maybe that’s why some people have to “do it their way” for so long before they finally decide to hire a bookkeeper. And at that point, they have no way to measure what the delay has cost them, they only know what the new bookkeeper costs. I think I’ll invent a strap-on, time-squandered-o-meter for entepreneurs considering doing their own books. Make ’em wear … Continue reading →