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Are you charging enough? Oct 08, 2020

A bookkeeper that I’m mentoring was recently advised that she couldn’t possibly charge market rate as she was just starting out.

Here’s why I wholeheartedly disagree with this,...

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Every Month is a GST Month Sep 11, 2020

#everymonthisaGSTmonth

Bookkeepers in New Zealand often find that their workload has pesky peaks and troughs that correspond to our 2-monthly GST cycles.

This often results in a more stressful...

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Resilience for Bookkeepers Sep 04, 2020

Hi there,

How are you coping?

It's been a mixed bag for bookkeepers, these past few months, right?

On one hand, as bookkeepers we've all been doing a wonderful job of supporting clients through...

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The space between "fake-it-til-you-make-it" and "don't-make-a-dick-of-yourself" Aug 28, 2020

I wrote in last week’s blog How to Build a Successful Bookkeeping Business about how I tend to live my life in the space between “fake it ‘til you make it” and...

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How to build a successful bookkeeping business? Aug 21, 2020

Last week, after inviting bookkeepers in my free Facebook group The Business of Bookkeeping to share their bookkeeping origin story, I talked about my own bookkeeping journey; from...

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What's your origin story? Aug 14, 2020

I had huge resistance to starting my bookkeeping business back in 2007. I thought anyone could do bookkeeping, and did, from their dining room table, for low pay.

Our landlord was an accountant and...

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