Here's a fun fact for your holiday reflection: according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 1.3 million certified accountants in the US. While you may not be among their ranks, you can still learn some important skills from these hardworking professionals.
Jess King
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How to Plan and Create a Construction Budgeting Analysis In 4 Steps
Lincoln Logs, Legos, K'Nex, Erector Sets—remember how fun it was to create the structure of your dreams with any one of these building toys? As long as you had enough pieces, the possibilities seemed endless. And the best part was that you didn't need to create a construction budget or put anything down in order to bring your dream to life...just a vivid imagination!
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What Does a Modern Bookkeeper Do?
Bookkeeping…we’ve all heard of it, but what exactly is it? In simple terms, bookkeeping is defined as creating and maintaining the financial records and reports of a business. In short, bookkeepers take care of all the mundane tasks that are required to keep a business’ financial information in order. This includes making entries of financial transactions like accounts payables and receivables, payroll amounts, and petty expenditures. But it doesn’t end there.
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Botkeeper vs. ScaleFactor vs. Pilot vs. Bench: Which Bookkeeping Software is Right for Your Business?
Whether you run a startup company or manage a billion-dollar enterprise, bookkeeping is one of the most important tasks for any business. Business owners want (and need) to focus on their products and services as well as growing their company. But they also need to stay on top of bookkeeping tasks, which are tedious and time-consuming. Fortunately, there are lots of bookkeeping services available today that can help business owners streamline their bookkeeping tasks so they can focus on what matters.
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How Outsourced Bookkeeping Saved Ovia Health $50,000
When Your Needs Outgrow Your Tools
Ovia Health is doing big things for women and families, and they need support that enables them the ability to grow at any pace, anytime. As a health and tech company, Ovia Health is committed to transforming the way employers support working women and families along their parenthood journey, improving outcomes by providing daily personalized engagement, proactively identifying potential health risks, and supporting a successful return to work.
But in 2018, the small finance team at Ovia Health needed an upgrade. They were dealing with some common accounting shortcomings related to their accounting software, in particular limited automation capabilities. This meant that they were still having to do a lot of manual bookkeeping on a regular basis, leading to human errors and inconsistencies.