Salt Lake City Bookkeeping Blog

For many businesses, their bookkeeping causes a lot of pain. However, when handled correctly, there are many pains that proper bookkeeping can remedy. Common reasons that bookkeeping causes pain are: it is intimidating, people don't like it, and it's often way behind because it gets pushed to the back burner. 

It is crucial to keep up on your bookkeeping so that you can keep your business on track towards its goals. If you are feeling any of the following bookkeeping pains, you need to make some changes to your current system.

As a small business, there are many bookkeeping mistakes you just can't afford to make. 

A small mistake can mean a minor setback in your operations. Some larger ones can have you overpay taxes. There is not a company anywhere that wants to pay more tax than they legally have to. 

The new year is almost here. It is time for your year-end bookkeeping but also to start planning for the next year.  

We have helped plenty of small business owners with opening a yoga studio but mostly from a business perspective.  Yoga studio bookkeeping is one of our industry specialties due to how many yoga studios we have done bookkeeping and business consulting for.  

The one thing I have noticed about all the yoga studio owners we have worked with is the passion they have for yoga.  I'm sure you don't want to get into yoga for business management; you just want to run a studio because you love what you do.  

No matter what business you are in having a true passion and love for what you do is what leads to running a successful business.  If you are wondering how to open a yoga studio I have plenty of advice from a business perspective based upon my past experience.

It seems like the #1 concern for every business, whether it's a small yoga studio or a large gym is how to grow. But growth doesn't always equal higher profits, nor does it mean that your business is prepared for responsibility of growth such as hiring, expanding space, budgeting, and more. Every small business or gym seems to want to grow; the question is, are they ready? Check this quick assessment to get an idea if your yoga studio or gym is ready for growth.

Cash is king, but without proper bookkeeping procedures in place, mishandling cash can cause business failure.

Weak bookkeeping systems that do not use the correct procedures for handling cash are vulnerable to internal theft and IRS audit failures.

Managing your small business cash flow properly can ensure that your bookkeeper is not stealing from you. Implementing a bookkeeping process for handling cash payments from customers and cash disbursements out of the business (petty cash), is essential to ensuring your small business is successful and profitable.

As the saying goes, "failing to plan is planning to fail". This is never more true than in the world of small businesses. Looking back on the year, there may be many obvious mistakes that have prevented your company from seeing its full potential. In the coming year, there are several crucial steps that will ensure manageable and profitable growth for your small business.

As we get closer and closer to year-end most businesses will begin thinking about taxes. One of the most hated words in the business world... taxes. By the time year-end passes and you actually start to think about your bookkeeping and taxes you are too late.

You need to attend to your bookkeeping before year-end and do some tax planning. Updating your bookkeeping and reviewing it prior to year-end is very important as you can actually do something about your tax situation before the turn of the calendar. Here is a must do now checklist for your year-end bookkeeping.