This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA By Karen Bershad Seasonality isn’t a surprise. It’s a pattern. Yet every year, thousands of home‑services franchisees, HVAC, landscaping, pest control, cleaning, restoration, and more, get blindsided by the same...

If your books are behind, you are not alone. For many business owners, bookkeeping falls behind for very normal reasons. You get busy serving clients, managing people, handling operations, and trying to keep growth moving. Sometimes the issue is time. Sometimes a...

If you want to sell your business someday, but you also know it still depends heavily on you, you are not behind. You are in a very common place. I talk with owners all the time who know they do not want to be the one holding every part of the business together...

Your business is growing. New clients, new employees, bigger contracts. Revenue has crossed the million-dollar mark and that feels good. But somewhere along the way, the financial side of the business stopped feeling simple.

As a small business owner, you might find yourself overwhelmed by financial statements, struggling to understand why your revenue isn’t translating into cash in the bank. You are not alone; many small businesses are in the same situation, especially when they...

These are uncertain economic times. Bring in money faster by using progress invoicing. If you’re concerned about your company’s cash flow because you don’t know what will happen with the U.S. economy in the coming months, you’re not alone. The vast majority of small...

You’re busy, but you need to keep up with your finances. Here’s how QuickBooks can fill you in – quickly. QuickBooks is very good at recording and storing details. You can find minutia of all kinds, like customer ZIP codes and one-time discounts, and reorder points...