
I have been a QuickBooks and accounting coach for entrepreneurs for 25+ years. Once you know how lists are organized, customer and vendor systems work and what reports guide your business, QuickBooks can make your life easier and more profitable. QuickBooks is easier to learn and use when you have the big picture of how accounting works. It’s about time you get smarter so you don’t have to work harder.įirst on the path is my Basic Accounting for Entrepreneurs. We work with lots of QuickBooks entrepreneurs and encourage them to get financially savvy so they can grow a successful business. The firm I work with is ATLAS CPAs & Advisors PLLC. It’s a bit of a stretch to figure out how it applies to accounting-but it does! The difficult chore of monthly bookkeeping becomes habit once you do it a few times that habit becomes easy when you’ve done it for a year that ease becomes beautiful when you can trust the numbers to make decisions and have the peace of mind that your books are ready for tax prep. There’s a quote my clients love: “The difficult must become habit, the habit easy, the easy beautiful.” This was on a sign that hung over the Moscow Ballet, and it’s easy to see the wisdom. If you’re getting that nagging feeling that it’s time for you to grow up financially so you can grow up your business, sign up for my class “Basic Accounting for Entrepreneurs.” Besides learning how accounting is a brilliant organizational tool to tell the story of your business, I’ll do it in a way that will motivate and inspire you to actually want to do it. And most importantly, I’d learned to read, and write, the financial story of my business. Once I was motivated to learn and act, over the next year I improved all the financial measures that were important in running a successful business. It was a very harsh reality to face, but the result was astonishing. Once I faced that, I faced the fact that if the store failed it would be all on me rather than the dishonest employee. An employee was stealing so much merchandise and money that I almost ran out of cash to operate. I didn’t start paying attention to what it took to do a good job until I almost lost one of my stores. When I was introduced into the reality of bookkeeping and accounting, it was painful and I was terrible at doing the monthly, quarterly and yearly work. I started the stores because I loved the clever and classy merchandise, as well as having interesting customers from all over the world. That was certainly true for me when I owned and operated 5 retail gift shops around Colorado. Lots of entrepreneurs own QuickBooks, but most wish they were better at using it. Nonprofit Administration and Leadership Training Certification.Mediation Training: Online Training for Colorado Mediators.Digital Marketing Certification Program.Creativity, Writing, Arts, Music, & Voice-over.Business, Marketing, Careers, & Nonprofit Administration.CFU Catalog: Fall 2022/Early Winter 2023.
