Can I Deduct That? The Most Common Small Business Tax Time Question

“What can I deduct?” is a common question at tax time.
The trouble is, the answer to that question is “It depends.”
The IRS states that you may deduct all “ordinary and necessary” expenses for your business.
But what would those be? Unfortunately, there's no list of expenses that applies to every type of business. The expenses considered [...]

Posted by: Mariette Knoblauch, March 1, 2010

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Bookkeeping Helps Business Owners Make Money (If You Keep Up with It)

Diane Kennedy shares a telling discovery in her article “Can Bookkeeping Make You Rich?” She found that the gross income of her clients had increased about 2 and a half times, on average, since working with her. Why? Because she requires that her clients do financial statements throughout the year. By improving the

Posted by: Mariette Knoblauch, February 25, 2010

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Bookkeepers Can Augment Downtime with One-Time Training Classes for New Business Owners

Small businesses often cut back on bookkeeping services when money gets tight.  Because of this trend, in addition to offering traditional preparation services, short-of-work bookkeepers can fill in free time in their schedules and attract new clients by offering short teaching sessions.
Recently, many people have become frustrated with the job search, and are starting their [...]

Posted by: Mariette Knoblauch, February 22, 2010

Bookkeeping and marketing, a match made in heaven

I know all you bookkeeping types think marketers just sit around making pretty pictures and dreaming up catchy sayings. The marketers think bookkeepers sit in a back room somewhere adding and re-adding the same column of numbers over and over. The truth is the two of you need to meet, even if you [...]

Posted by: Wray Rives, September 10, 2009

Bookkeepers’ Education in 1947: Film – Bookkeeping & You

While starting our own series of bookkeeping tutorials yesterday, I found this wonderfully accurate, though terribly dated, look at Bookkeeping as it was taught and practiced in 1947. The beginning, is an eerie reflection of today's unemployment; "150," the number of jobs available to those with bookkeeping experience and, "850,000 employed," then, as bookkeepers. [...]

Posted by: Paul O'Brien, July 29, 2009

Using bookkeeping software to improve business results

We spend a lot of time talking about how bookkeeping solutions like Outright.com can help you get your business finances organized for tax time.  But one of our users, Jane Chin, PH.D., wrote a great article about how she uses Outright as a "business tactical tool" to help her monitor and improve her business results.  [...]

Posted by: Paul O'Brien, June 19, 2009

Bookkeepers & Entrepreneurs, Join Forces!

Here we go again, streamlining the work involved with business record keeping and simplifying life for the busy entrepreneur.
This time, we're making business records accessible to bookkeepers so that you can focus on your business and let an accountant or bookkeeper watch your back. Log in to outright.com today and invite the bookkeeper, office [...]

Posted by: Paul O'Brien, May 11, 2009

And the Mac user base continues to grow!

When Apple reported earnings earlier this week, one of the first things we looked for was information on Mac shipments and market share. Why? Because Mac users have long been under-served when it comes to accounting software solutions. The lack of quality financial record keeping options on a Mac is one of [...]

Posted by: admin, July 25, 2008