4 Signs Your Bookkeeper is Costing You Money
4 Signs Your Bookkeeper is Costing You Money (4 min read) By Alissa Bryden, CPA, CA […]
Are you ready to be an entrepreneur?
It's a Grind Being an entrepreneur can be a grind. Running a small business will be the most rewarding and also the most difficult thing that you ever do. Or at least it is for me. My undergrad degree was a Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurship. I studied entrepreneurship everyday and analyzed case study after case study on business owners and their stories. We looked at the types, traits, life circumstances and then got into the steps they took to make it happen. We looked at cases where they succeeded and also where they didn’t. For my first blog post, I [...]
The Accountant vs The Bookkeeper
Within the first meeting of any new small business owner there is a standard question “So do I need a bookkeeper?”. This is a great question and one I thought necessary to discuss. What is the difference between a bookkeeper and an accountant? To discuss we really have to start with an explanation. I will first explain the difference between a bookkeeper and an accountant. Before cloud accounting, a bookkeeper would take the receipts, invoices, bank statements and credit card statements etc. (called source documents) and enter them into the desktop accounting program. They may have also assisted with payroll and [...]