Bookkeeping

You are not bad with money. You are out of hours. That is why these mistakes survive in otherwise healthy businesses, and why every one of them is fixable in an afternoon.

You can be profitable on paper and still run out of cash. Most owners find out the hard way. Here's why the squeeze stays invisible until it's a crisis, and the simple weekly system that lets you see trouble five weeks before it hits.

Most project accounting software hands the owner a second job: operating it. We compare QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, and BigTime in plain English - and explain when the honest answer isn't software at all.