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10/01/2026

Hello, October! 🍂

We’ve officially entered the final quarter of the year—and January will be here before we know it.

So here’s a simple question:

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐮𝐩?

If you’re a few months behind, now is the time to get back on track. Waiting until year-end only means more transactions to sort through, more questions to answer, and potentially more problems to untangle.

Use Q4 to catch up, clean up, and make sure your numbers actually make sense.

Because when January arrives, you want to be looking ahead—not trying to reconstruct what happened six months ago.

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰?

09/29/2026

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲

We’re heading toward the final quarter of the year, which makes this a good time to ask:

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬?

Not just whether there’s money in the bank.

Take a look at your balance sheet.

Are your bank and credit card accounts reconciled?

Do your loan balances look reasonable?

Are there old accounts or balances you don’t recognize?

Does anything make you think, “I have no idea what that is”?

Those little questions are worth investigating now.

Because a bookkeeping problem that takes an hour to correct in September can become a much bigger cleanup after several more months of transactions are piled on top of it.

You don’t need perfect books.

But you do need books you can trust.

09/24/2026

𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐲

One of the biggest misconceptions about bookkeeping?

If everything is reconciled, the books must be correct.

Not necessarily.

I can open a set of books where the bank accounts are reconciled and still find:

• Income recorded twice
• Expenses in the wrong categories
• Old balances that should have been cleared years ago
• Loans recorded incorrectly
• Personal and business transactions mixed together
• Balance sheet accounts that simply don’t make sense

Reconciliation is important—but it’s only one part of good bookkeeping.

Accurate books should tell a story that makes sense.

That’s why I don’t just look at whether the numbers balance.

I look at whether the numbers are 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.

09/23/2026

𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢! 💙

I’m looking forward to representing 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 at 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 – 𝐃𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐝: 𝐀 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.

I’ll be speaking about 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐢𝐝: 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫—a practical way to make sure important financial information is organized and accessible when life doesn’t go according to plan.

This is also a wonderful 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 to connect with local business owners and professionals while hearing practical information on financial preparedness, legal matters, health, personal growth, and spiritual wellness.

📅 Thursday, September 24 | 9:30–11:30 AM
📍 Las Brisas, Corpus Christi
🎟️ $5 admission benefiting the Blue Rose Scholarship Fund

𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐒𝐕𝐏: Email [email protected] with your name, business name (if applicable), email address, and phone number.

Hope to see you there!

09/22/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭

Seeing money in your business bank account feels good.

But that number doesn’t tell you how profitable your business is.

Some of that money may already have a job:

🔹Taxes
🔹Payroll
🔹Credit card payments
🔹Upcoming expenses
🔹Loan payments

And sometimes, money in the bank came from a loan or line of credit—which means it increased your cash, but it certainly didn’t increase your profit.

That’s why I encourage business owners to look beyond the bank balance.

Your financial reports tell the bigger story.

The goal isn’t just to know how much money you have today. It’s to understand what your business is actually earning, spending, owing, and keeping.

That’s where financial clarity begins.

09/16/2026

Your P&L says the business is doing fine.

But what if one part of the business is doing more than fine…and another is quietly costing you money?

That can be difficult to see when everything is combined into one set of numbers.

If you run multiple services, crews, properties, locations, or routes, QuickBooks Online has Class and Location tracking that can help separate the numbers.

For example, you might track each service line separately and discover that the service bringing in the most revenue isn’t actually your most profitable one.

Or you may find that one location is carrying much more of the business than you realized.

That’s valuable information.

Because once you can see what each part of the business is contributing, you can make better decisions about pricing, expenses, staffing, and where to put your time and resources.

Accurate books tell you what happened.

Well-organized books can help you understand why.

If we separated your P&L today, do you already have a guess which part of your business would be the most profitable?

09/14/2026

“I’ll deal with the books when things slow down.”

I understand why business owners tell themselves this.

There’s always a client who needs something, a deadline coming up, or a dozen other things that feel more urgent.

So the books get pushed to next week. Then next month.

The problem? Business doesn’t stop asking you to make financial decisions while you wait.

You’re still deciding what you can spend, whether you can hire, what to charge, and how much cash you actually have available.

And those decisions are a lot harder when you’re not confident in the numbers.

You don’t have to fix everything at once.

Sometimes the most useful first step is simply finding out what’s right, what’s off, and what needs attention.

That’s the purpose of a Diagnostic Review. It gives you a starting point without expecting your books to already be in perfect shape.

Because if you keep waiting for the perfect time, you may be waiting a while.

What’s one thing in your business you keep telling yourself you’ll tackle “when things slow down”?

09/11/2026

𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 / 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐤

I have a habit of signing up for a certification, class, or course simply because something about it caught my attention.

Do I always need it? Nope.
Did a client ask me to learn it? Usually not.
Was I curious and wanted to understand it better? Absolutely.

That curiosity is probably why I've collected more credentials over the years than any one bookkeeping practice technically needs. 😂

But I don't see learning as something separate from the work I do. I think it's part of what keeps me sharp.

Business changes. Technology changes. The tools we use change. And sometimes what I learn "just because I was curious" ends up being exactly what I need later.

I've always believed there's value in continuing to learn—not because you have to, but because you never know where that knowledge might take you.

So for this Fun Friday, I'm curious:

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨—𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨?

09/09/2026

Does your business pay everyone except you?

It happens more often than you might think.

The bills get paid.
The software gets paid.
The contractors get paid.
The taxes get set aside.

Then the business owner looks at what’s left and thinks:

“Okay…what can I take?”

That may work occasionally, but when it becomes the normal way you pay yourself, it’s worth asking why.

Is there a cash flow issue?
Are expenses eating up more revenue than you realized?
Is your pricing supporting the business you’re actually running?
Or have you simply never created a plan for paying yourself consistently?

Those are very different problems—and they require different solutions.

That’s why I don’t think “just pay yourself first” tells the whole story.

Before deciding what you 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 pay yourself, you need to understand what your business can sustainably support.

Your numbers can help you figure that out.

Quick check-in: Do you have a consistent plan for taking money out of your business, or is it still mostly “whatever is left”? 💛

09/07/2026

This Labor Day, a reminder for every business owner: 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐭𝐨𝐨.

When you’re building something that matters to you, it’s easy to focus on the next client, the next deadline, or the next thing that needs your attention.

But building a sustainable business isn’t just about how much you can accomplish. It’s also about creating space to step away, recharge, and enjoy the life you’re working so hard to build.

So whether you’re spending Labor Day with family and friends, enjoying some quiet time, or simply giving yourself permission to slow down—I hope you take a moment to appreciate everything your hard work has created.

Happy Labor Day!

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