Ready to crack the code of business financials? Pull up a chair for this power-packed lunch session where our guest speaker, Barry Blanton with Blanton Advisors, LLC, will translate financial jargon into actionable business intelligence. Learn to read between the numbers and understand what they mean for your business's future.
As we enter 2025, we're thrilled to celebrate 15 years of serving our amazing clients! To mark this milestone, each month we'll feature special '15' themed content that showcases our expertise and helps your business thrive.
Kicking off our celebration, January brings you '15 Essential Tips for 1099 Success.' Drawing from our decade and a half of experience, we've compiled our most valuable insights to help you navigate this critical tax season requirement with confidence.
Join us throughout 2025 as we continue our '15 for 15' series – where each month brings a new collection of 15 curated insights, tips, and celebrations. Here's to 15 years of partnership, and many more to come!
Our mission is “Your business doesn’t fit inside a box and neither should your accounting services”, and we want to take a moment to highlight some of the ways we love to do that.
You know how they call the NCAA basketball tournament March Madness? We are coining the term April Absurdity for all of the tax craziness that’s happening on April 15th!
March 8, 2023- (Conroe, TX) – Nationally-renowned consumer advocate, environmental activist, cultural icon and American hero Erin Brockovich will deliver the keynote address at the Conroe/Lake Conroe Chamber of Commerce ATHENA Leadership Award Luncheon. The luncheon is scheduled for Friday, July 21, 2023, at the Margaritaville Lake Resort on Lake Conroe. The ATHENA Leadership Award Luncheon is presented by Better Bookkeepers and Brockovich’s keynote is sponsored by Worthington Manor.
“Better Bookkeepers is honored to support the ATHENA Leadership Award Luncheon,” said Melanie K. Bush, owner, Better Bookkeepers. “Our female leaders empower and drive us to reach higher and achieve more every day. Similar to our fabulous speaker this year, ATHENA leaders don’t settle. They consistently strive for righteousness in every situation.”
The new year brings good news for our colleague Cindy Polio who has been promoted to Manager, effective January 1, 2023. Her hard work and dedication to our clients’ experience has more than justified her increased responsibility and authority.
“Cindy is a strong team member and jumps in to help wherever she can. She brings laughter and fun to a workplace that’s known to be full of deadlines and projects. I’m so excited to be able to work alongside of Cindy and look forward to watching the continued growth of our team under her leadership,” said Managing Partner, Randie Morton, about Polio’s promotion.
Cindy Polio joined Better Better Bookkeepers in 2018 and is a proud graduate of Sam Houston State University. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting. Cindy is an LMC alumni class of 2022 and a member of Interfaith Young Professionals.
Prior to joining Better Bookkeepers, Cindy worked for various small businesses and has over 10 years of bookkeeping experience.
As 2023 draws gradually and unavoidably closer, there are a handful of things that business owners may be doing that will not bode well for the year ahead. Whether you are looking to budget for the new year, prepare for taxes, or have an accurate depiction of how your business is doing at any given time throughout the year, these are a handful of practices that need to be stopped as soon as possible.
Can you believe we are already well into the second half of this year? Time flies when you are running your own business, taking care of customers and enjoying a home life outside of work. Time flies…and tasks can pile up. Different areas of your business can suffer or be put on the backburner, and we get it. This is where Better Bookkeepers can help.
Before December rolls around and you need your finances in order for tax season and beyond, drop us a line. When your books are managed, and obstacles and hiccups are proactively found before the CPA or IRS come knocking, you can rest easier, free yourself up for other responsibilities and delegate what is usually a stressful task. When you partner with a company like Better Bookeepers for monthly or even quarterly maintenance, many areas of your business can become more efficient and you have less to worry about come January.
Everyone wants to end the year on a high note, but that can also lead to distractions that can make the upcoming year more difficult. Give us a call, let’s get a plan together to see you into 2023 with a smile!
With school out for summer and vacations on the horizon, as a small business owner, you may be experiencing a good bit of stress. With a long weekend, a week or even longer out of the office and unplugged, do you have all the minutia of your business covered?
In the small business finance world, the terms accounting and bookkeeping are often used interchangeably. It’s important to know, however, that while many functionalities in their responsibilities can overlap, they aren’t quite the same. We hope this blog post will help you delineate the two and determine which one would be the best fit for you and your business.
As a small business owner, you have a lot of irons in the fire. You are in meetings, conversing with clients and customers, maybe developing new products and services, working on your marketing and trying to budget everything – while attempting a personal life. It feels like your business is getting to its critical mass for you, in that you don’t have any more time in the day. What can you delegate that will free up your time that could benefit your business? May we suggest a bookkeeping service?
As the year comes to an end, you may be looking for a bookkeeping team or individual to do some clean-up and get you ready for next year. We have assembled eight questions to ask someone taking on your books to see if they are a good fit for you company, industry and needs. If you can enter an agreement with these questions confidently answered to your liking, you can feel good about closing out your year.
If you are vacillating between hiring a bookkeeper or not, we have compiled a list of the services we provide to help keep you working IN your business in revenue-generating activity and not ON your business and in the weeds of administrative work.
Every new business owner and even some seasoned veterans make mistakes in regard to managing their business’ finances. Because the decision-maker may be taking care of customers and managing other areas of the business, we thought we would put together some tell-tale signs of when you need to speak to a bookkeeper to free up your time by outsourcing.
There is a lot of detail that can go into creating an accurate job costing report. Having this information is crucial in making accurate business decisions. Learn more from our latest blog post.
