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Accounting and Bookkeeping: The Parts That Actually Matter When You Are Small
The three financial statements in plain terms, why a profitable year can still leave you short of cash, when double-entr…
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Billing Software for Linux, and the Question of What You Actually Own
The useful question about billing software is not what it does, but what survives when the company behind it changes its…
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Separating Business and Personal Money When Your Income Comes From Three Places
One pipe per tax form: what a W-2, a side trade and a rental each need, where the tax set-aside belongs, the withholding…
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The Cheapest Small Business Accounting Software Is the One You Keep Up to Date
What a one- or two-person business needs from billing software, what it should cost over five years, deposits on custom…
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Pool Service Business Money: A Route Is a Subscription That Buys Chemicals at Retail
Chlorine roughly doubled and most routes never re-priced. What one pool costs to service, when to itemize chemicals, why…
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Plumbing Business Money: The Most Profitable Hour Is the One Nobody Wants
Pricing emergency work so the 6 am call is worth it, passing permits through at cost, expiring water heater quotes, van…
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Auto Repair Shop Money: Set the Labor Rate from the Rent
An independent shop lives on two numbers it rarely sees separately: parts margin and labor rate. The margin on one job…
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Handyman Business Money: The Best Hourly Rate in the Trades and the Worst Hourly Income
$85 an hour becomes $34 in the bank because of drive time, materials runs and unchased $300 invoices. How to set the rat…
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HVAC Contractor Money: The Deposit Is the Business Model
An HVAC shop can be profitable on paper and out of cash in the same month. Deposits, equipment markup, the summer-winter…
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Cleaning Business Money: Price from Cleaner-Hours, Charge the Cancellation, Pay the Helper on the Books
A cleaning business is a labor business with a supplies problem. How to price a clean from hours, what a cancellation po…
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Lawn Care Business Money: Pricing a Cut, Surviving the Winter, and What the Schedule C Wants
A lawn care company earns most of its money in six months and pays its bills in twelve. How to price a cut from real cos…
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Auto Repair Shop Invoicing: Price Parts and Labor Separately, or You Cannot See Your Margin
Parts earn a markup, labor earns a rate, and a blended invoice hides both. The margin math on a real $1,446 head gasket…
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