Comments on: Bookkeeping-Top 10 Sanity Checklist http://www.thevirtualasst.com/bookkeeping-top-10-sanity-checklist Your Virtual Assistant: Providing Virtual Services to Small Business Owners Wed, 02 May 2012 06:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: William@Bookkeeping Certification http://www.thevirtualasst.com/bookkeeping-top-10-sanity-checklist/comment-page-1#comment-3619 William@Bookkeeping Certification Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:55:53 +0000 http://www.thevirtualasst.com/?p=674#comment-3619 I love this list -- so many small business owners try to manage their books themselves but really don't give the task the attention it deserves (since they hate doing it). Tip number 10 is great advice for a LOT of people. Focus on the things you do well, and get someone who is good at (and enjoys) bookkeeping to actually manage your books. If they can't do that, tip 1 is the most vital. It reminds of the expression "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time." If you do your bookkeeping in small portions, it's much more enjoyable. If you let it mount up and have to tackle months worth of work all at once, it's going to be miserable. Thanks again for the great list! I love this list — so many small business owners try to manage their books themselves but really don’t give the task the attention it deserves (since they hate doing it). Tip number 10 is great advice for a LOT of people. Focus on the things you do well, and get someone who is good at (and enjoys) bookkeeping to actually manage your books.

If they can’t do that, tip 1 is the most vital. It reminds of the expression “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” If you do your bookkeeping in small portions, it’s much more enjoyable. If you let it mount up and have to tackle months worth of work all at once, it’s going to be miserable.

Thanks again for the great list!

]]> By: Michelle Mangen http://www.thevirtualasst.com/bookkeeping-top-10-sanity-checklist/comment-page-1#comment-1272 Michelle Mangen Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:01:09 +0000 http://www.thevirtualasst.com/?p=674#comment-1272 Jean - oh my gosh it is so important. Even on the vacation rental that I own I realized I spent way too much money on bottled water and it was a piece of "fat" I could cut without consequence or really affecting my rentals. I am ultra-detail oriented and have a crazy long chart of accounts but in my case I can handle it because I'm a bookkeeping person. Jean – oh my gosh it is so important. Even on the vacation rental that I own I realized I spent way too much money on bottled water and it was a piece of “fat” I could cut without consequence or really affecting my rentals. I am ultra-detail oriented and have a crazy long chart of accounts but in my case I can handle it because I’m a bookkeeping person.

]]> By: jean@small business bookkeeping http://www.thevirtualasst.com/bookkeeping-top-10-sanity-checklist/comment-page-1#comment-1223 jean@small business bookkeeping Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:52:14 +0000 http://www.thevirtualasst.com/?p=674#comment-1223 This is really what many entrepreneurs forgot,to record even small expenses to know where the fat is and be able to cut it out in overheads. Thanks a lot for reminding us, great tips indeed! .-= jean@small business bookkeeping´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.basic-bookkeeping-courses.com/becomingabookkeeper.html">Jan 7, Becoming a Bookkeeper</a> =-. This is really what many entrepreneurs forgot,to record even small expenses to know where the fat is and be able to cut it out in overheads. Thanks a lot for reminding us, great tips indeed!
.-= jean@small business bookkeeping´s last blog ..Jan 7, Becoming a Bookkeeper =-.

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