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If you’re just starting out in business, you might be tempted to skip the accounting software and just use an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of your accounts. Maybe you’ve only got two or three clients and not many overheads so it’s all pretty straightforward, but...

At Dollars and Sense, we help small businesses with their bookkeeping services every day. That’s what you’d expect, right? But sometimes there are intangibles that add value to your business that you might not expect – factors that help you in ways you didn’t even...

One of the most important things for us at Dollars + Sense is keeping our clients’ bookkeeping services as simple and streamlined as possible. This helps keep your costs down, and it’s far easier to have a clear view of your finances.

When you’re first getting set up in your business, and running things yourself to keep costs down, it absolutely makes sense to keep things as simple as possible. And if you’ve been keeping your records in an Excel spreadsheet, you’re not alone. And the fact that...

When you’re a sole trader or small business owner, you often have to wear a lot of hats, so anything that can help you to streamline your bookkeeping has to be a good thing. So we’ve pulled together some of our favourite ways to simplify your small business...

Keeping track of how much you’re making and how much you’re spending can seem like a tedious waste of time when you’d rather be out there making money, we know! But at Dollars + Sense we think it’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of record-keeping to...

Setting prices can bring up a lot of feelings for some people around their worth and their fear of asking for too much, and a common trap we see at Dollars + Sense is that freelancers price themselves too low and risk running at a loss or never getting ahead.  Of...

Setting up a new business is an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming, especially when you have a lot of competing priorities. It’s not necessarily complicated, but it’s a step that’s important to get right because having the wrong structure could cost you...

Dealing with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) can seem daunting.

Navigating their website and portals when you’re not trained in bookkeeping or the processes that go along with it is yet another task to add to your list of things to do while running a growing business. And making mistakes when dealing with the tax office can prove costly if you’re not careful.

In the bookkeeping services industry, we work alongside some of the most successful and ambitious startups in the game. Yet, for all of their triumphs, there’s one thing we know will have even the most fearless CEO running for the hills at the mere mention: BAS...