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7 Steps to Calculate Your Average Monthly Burn Rate accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 19, 2026

7 Steps to Calculate Your Average Monthly Burn Rate

Your business could stop making money today or a client could be very late on paying their invoices. How much would you need every month to stay op...

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How To Calculate Your Tax Liability accountants accounting firm bookkeeping bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 17, 2026

Here’s Exactly the Process Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know About Tax Liability

Tax liability can feel unnecessarily complicated when you own a business. You have federal taxes, state taxes, ...

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Here's Exactly How to Set Up Your Four Business Bank Accounts accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 14, 2026

One checking account forces every dollar to compete for the same space. Payroll sits next to tax money. Your emergency fund sits next to your marketing budget. Profit gets mixed in with operating cash...

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Here's Exactly How to Start Paying Yourself a CEO Salary accountants accounting bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 12, 2026

Paying yourself as an owner is one of the most emotionally charged parts of owning a business. For some reason, we have an easier time writing a payroll check to an employee, approving a software subs...

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Here's Exactly How to Calculate Your Top Line Sales Goal accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 10, 2026

Most business owners start with a sales goal:

"I want to hit $500,000 this year."

"I want to become a million-dollar business."

"I'd love to double my revenue."

This is how we all learned about f...

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Here's Exactly How to Calculate Your Hourly Billable Rate accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 07, 2026

If you've ever looked at another business owner's prices and wondered, "How can they charge that much?" you're not alone.

Pricing is one of the hardest parts of running a business because most entre...

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Here's Exactly How to Budget for Your New Employee accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 05, 2026

Hiring your first employee, or even your tenth, should never begin with a job posting.

Before you hire anyone, calculate the true cost of bringing that person onto your team. When you know the numbe...

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Here's Exactly How to Calculate Your Business Tax Liability accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Aug 03, 2026

Taxes are one of the biggest sources of stress for small business owners. It adds stress, fear, fines, penalties, sometimes hours on the phone with the IRS on top of everything else we are doing as a...

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Here's Exactly How to Set Up Your Four Business Bank Accounts accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Jul 31, 2026

When I first started my business, everything flowed through one checking account.

Client payments came in. Bills went out. Taxes sat in the same account as payroll and every time I opened my banki...

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You Are Not Crazy, But Owning a Business Makes You Feel Crazy accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Jul 29, 2026

There have been seasons of owning a business where I genuinely questioned myself.

How could I have the best sales month in company history and still feel stressed about payroll? Why did hiring an emp...

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Parkinson's Update 6 accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Jul 24, 2026

Parkinson's Update 6.5.26: I spent 4 days in the same clothes. I didn't shower. I barely ate. I went from my bed to the couch back to my bed. I wasn't in pain but I felt like I was in quicksand. Like ...

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A Family I Didn’t Know I Had accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Jul 22, 2026

A Family I Didn’t Know I Had

Eleven years ago, I found out we had four more siblings on my biological dad’s side. One of them was my big brother, Tony, who opened his heart and his home to us from th...

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7 Steps to Calculate Your Average Monthly Burn Rate

Here’s Exactly the Process Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know About Tax Liability

Most business owners start with a sales goal:

A Family I Didn’t Know I Had

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