Bookkeeping Advice

Bookkeeping: If You Have Two Companies…Part 2

This article continues the series dealing with if you are in a scenario where you are an entrepreneur and have two small business entities to maintain the bookkeeping for. As mentioned in Part 1 of this series, this is a rather common scenario and it is vital that you, as the owner of both of

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Bookkeeping: If You Have Two Companies…Part 1

This article deals with if you are in a scenario where you are an entrepreneur and have two small business entities to maintain the bookkeeping for. This is a rather common scenario and it is vital that you, as the owner of both of these small businesses, understand simple do’s and don’ts when it comes

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Spec Home – Lot Purchase

This article deals with your purchase of a Lot (Portion of Land) for the purposes of building a Spec Home (on it) in the near future. A Spec home’s building costs are typically going to be capitalized and converted to COGS upon sale of the completed build. However, the purchase of a Lot (Portion of

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One Method to E-File 1099 Forms from your Desktop

This article deals with utilizing a spreadsheet-upload function to ultimately upload all of the 1099 data onto an independent 3rd party e-filing platform (online) so you can submit 1099 forms to both the IRS and your contractors. This article does NOT refer to uploading data directly onto the IRS FIRE system to submit your 1099

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Verify Before Filing 1099 Forms

This article deals with verifying very basic items prior to filing a vendor 1099-NEC tax form. As you know, each January is the 1099-NEC tax filing month, which can be a daunting task to complete during the entire month. You want to be sure to NOT rush this activity, but you do have a deadline

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Close Construction in Progress to COGS

This article deals with posting a closing Construction in Progress journal entry as a result of selling, for example, a Spec built home that, you as the homebuilder, have sold and are trying to close out in your books. During the course of the build of a Spec home, you would post all associated costs

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Home Sale Journal Entry

This article deals with posting journal entries as a result of selling, for example, a spec built home that, you as the homebuilder, have sold and are trying to close out in your books. The main document that you will need to post the income, closing costs, cash deposit and reduction to zero out any

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Manual Adjustments to Client Retainer Balance

This article deals with posting manual adjustments to your client retainer balances (particularly to manually reduce a client’s retainer balance) in your bookkeeping software. Client retainer balances are increased normally by simply creating an invoice and billing the client for a retainer fee up front, say for $5000. Over time, as the work is completed

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Handling Customer Payment Deductions

This article deals with handling customer payments that do not fully pay off the open invoice. Especially in the inventory-related industries, a lot of times customers will send check payments to apply to a specific invoice(s), however the amount of the check payment is short of what is completely due in the open invoice(s). To

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Tracking Investments Bookkeeping- Part 5

Part 5 in this series of tracking investments bookkeeping will cover cost basis and market value adjustments. To re-cap from what you may already know: Cost Basis = What you actually paid at the time you purchased your stock. Market Value = What your stock holdings are worth today on the open market. If you

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