Tag Archives: messy bookkeeping

expert accountant

The dumbing down of everything

We live in the information age.

We can ask Google (or Alexa) anything. What gets too little time is fact-checking. Advice is requested in Facebook groups and taken at face value without checking the credentials of those offering the advice. Companies like Intuit and Freshbooks are actively dumbing down accounting. Freshbooks is advertising they are making accounting “approachable,” quite literally undermining the accountants they ask to join their partner program to help sell their products. What hasn’t changed is generally accepted accounting principles, GAAP, which is the rule book all accountants follow. No matter how pretty the screens in Quickbooks, 17Hats, Xero, Dubsado, etc., GAAP is GAAP. Period.

Let’s do some myth busting. Continue reading →

business owner, outsourcing

The funny thing about owning a business.

The funny thing about running a business today is that you can feel pretty invincible. After all, you can ask Google any question you have on any topic. If you don’t feel like consulting Google, you can pop into your favorite Facebook group and post your question and sit back and wait for the answers to appear. Perhaps you thought you knew the answer to your question but wanted confirmation.

The problem is that it’s easy to pick the answer from Google that you want. The Facebook group that chimes in to answer your question is a group of like-minded people just like you. Continue reading →