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Business Ethics – Cash Under The Table?

By Mrs. Accountability on May 18th, 2009

How do you feel about cash sales? If you were a self-proprietor, would you find it easy to “cheat” just a little (or a lot) and not report the cash collected from your customers?

I have strong personal feelings about doing that sort of thing. Not only is it not ethical, but there is [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Go For It, Collette!

By Mrs. Accountability on May 9th, 2009

Collette submitted a question to my Q&A post, wondering how I made the decision to not be self-employed. I responded to that part of the question here, but I felt the other part of her question was going to be too long for the Q&A post and I promised I’d continue it in a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

One Way to Lose Business

By Mrs. Accountability on April 23rd, 2009

I’ll be preaching to the choir since anyone reading my blog is online and knows the scoop. But you might let your not-so-Internet-savvy friends and relatives know that if they are going to have a business website then they need to get back with folks that contact them via their website.

I’m looking for [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Business Checks Ordered

By Mrs. Accountability on April 16th, 2009

Darn it! I thought I’d get that great package deal for $34.95 (plus shipping and handling) but as it turns out the catalog I was viewing was two years old!

One of my friends told me she has not bothered to order checks as she uses the BillPay feature provided by this credit union. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Would You Choose Self-Employment?

By Mrs. Accountability on April 14th, 2009

I have never wanted to be self-employed. I don’t mind working “for the man”. I have worked out of my home before, when my children were very young and it felt like the work was always there, always waiting to be done. I like the structure of my work days. Mr. A, on the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Ordering Business Checks

By Mrs. Accountability on April 10th, 2009

I think we’re going to order checks for Mr. A’s business checking accounts from the company recommended by the credit union. The brochure they gave me says the company is named Clarke American, but the website says they are now Harland Clarke.

I love looking through these little brochures, I know, I’m weird like [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Mr. A's New Checking Accounts

By Mrs. Accountability on April 6th, 2009

When we opened Mr. A’s checking account for his business, he didn’t really have a “business” at the time. He was doing some remodeling work for his sister, and we just wanted to keep the money for materials in a separate account. Then as time went by, Mr. A decided to take the leap [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Quickbooks Pro vs. Quickbooks Simple Start

By Mrs. Accountability on March 17th, 2009

As you know, I keep Mr. A’s books for his two businesses, and for a while I was keeping track using Quicken. That seemed to work out okay, but it started to get cumbersome because I was having to use Excel to create invoices. A friend of mine told me she uses Quickbooks, and [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Will The "New" Truck Be A Wise Investment?

By Mrs. Accountability on December 23rd, 2008

I wrote about the “new” truck we purchased over the weekend. We discovered in the past few days of tracking mileage that this truck gets nearly 20mpg which is excellent.

Mr. A put 15,400 miles on his old work truck in 2008. The miles per gallon varied, depending on how fast he drove. When [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Give Your Company A Good Name

By Mrs. Accountability on December 2nd, 2008

I’ve been extra busy lately. I’ve got a lot of pans in the fire, and on top of those I’m assembling a mailing list to send out for Mr. A’s business. We’re going to send a 2009 magnet calendar with Mr. A’s business information on it, a price list, several business cards and just [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]