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Why your bookkeeping is rubbish

Rubbish

It’s so much more than just a compliance task. “Rubbish” may be a strong word to use, but we so often see entrepreneurs restricting their own business’s growth by limiting their bookkeeping to basic record-keeping. While this fulfils compliance purposes for Revenue, it doesn’t even scratch the surface of the powerful insights you could gain

Your Accountant – A Bean Counter!

Bean counter

My friend John calls me a bean counter, knowing that I am part of an accountancy and tax business. The bean counter reference is an accusation. A not-so-subtle dig at the accountancy profession. He doesn’t hold accountants in high esteem and is brutally honest about it. I came across the Bean Counter Cafe on my

Bookkeeping – A Partnership Approach

We are in this together

We will look at bookkeeping and how a partnership approach can make your life easier. Plus, it can improve the bottom line and put more cash in your pocket. Introducing you to Conor and Amy [their real names] we will touch on some of the things that helped them. And why they decided to use

Bookkeeping – Go Paperless

Xero Gold Partner

Bookkeeping – Go Paperless. Yeah right! Sure, how can we do that? I can hear you all now. That fella is pulling our leg! And why would you want to go paperless anyway? What’s in it for me? We will explore further and make a case for it by looking at. Does paper cost money?

Why Outsource your Bookkeeping

Time for change

Happy New Year to all our readers. We will look at the reasons why you should outsource your bookkeeping. The plan is to compare what your bookkeeping looks like now to what it could look like. Some people are not into the numbers. Our client once told us that he’d rather pick potatoes for a

Business Owners – 5 Tips for 2023

2023

  For Business owners, we will look at 5 tips for 2023.   So much happens in such a short time it is difficult to have thinking time. Work, family, events, and now Christmas presents and the Christmas dinner. It is hectic. You will relate to this “By working faithfully eight hours a day you

Creating a Valuable Business

Apple

Creating a valuable business to sell or pass on to the next generation. This was the theme for an early morning event with Waterford Chamber and PWC. Numbers were low and given the weather, it was a wonder anyone was there at all. Those of us who were got great benefit from the presentation by

Ten Last-Minute Tax Tips

10 euros

Our focus is to give you ten last-minute tax tips that could save you some money before the Income-tax deadline. The idea for this came from a tax meeting I had with a friend, Dash O’Donnell, who has a local business. Dash has a very good accountant but only found out about her large tax

Getting help growing your business

Our Hero Jeff In our last blog, we spoke about our values and what they mean to us, and how they underpin the way we work with our clients. In case you missed it see here. This week we will talk about our hero Jeff, our accountancy coach and how you can get help with

Bookkeeping Is An Investment – Part II

Last week we looked at why bookkeeping is an investment and why it’s so important for a good business. This week we are going to look at what a quality bookkeeping system could look like for you.  We will look at What is quality bookkeeping Autoentry Dext/Receipt Bank Cloud Accounting Using the info Warning