LessAccounting and Getting Straight with my Money…
Posted on August 19, 2010 by Christine | Comments Off
Confession: I hate bookkeeping. I’m sure I’m not the only photographer that feels this way. I’ve been keeping track of the essential stuff relating to taxes & sales tax, and loosely using LessAccounting to track everything since 2009 along with ShootQ, but I haven’t really BONDED with my business finances, if you know what I mean. My books were sort of a mess.
Matter of fact, I have had a really bad tendency to think to myself, “Hey, look at that! I’ve got $1000 right now – I can go buy (insert non-essential item here) right now! I’m rich!” only to discover a week later that uh, no, I wasn’t rich, and now I’ve got 3 different things to pay and no money left to do it with.
This is NOT a good way to run a business. So over the past few weeks, and thanks to guidance by the wonderful Christyna Lewis of BEE Ventures, I’ve been getting over this head-in-sand syndrome and really getting intimate with my money.
It was hard at first, but now I feel SO much better! It is powerful to be in charge of your financial situation! I’ll share more about what I’ve been doing, but to start with, if you don’t have an accounting system in place to really track everything you have going in and out of your business, go right now and sign up for LessAccounting. I’ll share more of what I’m doing with it over the next few weeks so you can get real with your money too!
(Don’t own a business? Get hooked up with Mint – great for personal finances! Plus it is FREE!)
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Tags: accounting | Advice | bookkeeping | LessAccounting | Mint | Money | Wedding Photographer
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Hi! I'm Christine. Wife to Mike. Mom of Jason. Owned by 4 cats. Houston & Destination Wedding Photographer & owner of Hot Mama Boudoir. Blogger since 2000. Living in Houston, Texas since 1985. Living in a 1920 Bungalow in the Heights since 2011.
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