October 2, 2023

Building Your Supply Chain’s Resilience

By Patty Hansen | Oct 2, 2023

Supply chain breakdowns continue to stymie small businesses, causing them to lose sales and profits. Whether your business has been affected or not by supply chain delays and shortages, it’s a good idea to take steps to make your supply chain as resilient as possible. Your supply chain starts with gathering the materials that go…

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Understanding Goodwill in Accounting

By Patty Hansen | Sep 24, 2023

You might know the word “goodwill” as the name of a local charity where you can drop off household items you no longer need. It might also be something that’s talked about at church. But in accounting circles, goodwill is something completely different. This article contains a lot of technical terms, but we will walk…

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Cool Tech Tools: ChatGPT

By Patty Hansen | Sep 15, 2023

The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been in the news quite a bit recently, and one of the reasons is the launch of an AI chatbot called ChatGPT. The GPT in ChatGPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a program that can realistically write like a human and interact in a conversational way.…

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Don’t Shortchange Yourself: What an Entrepreneur’s Pay Should Cover

By Patty Hansen | May 30, 2023

Being in business means taking a lot of risks, especially financially, and as an entrepreneur, you deserve to be rewarded for those risks. Your pay is just one of the many benefits of your self-employment. But it’s not like the pay you get as an employee; it needs to be more comprehensive than that. Getting…

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Team One Accounting is Orange County’s Local Bookkeeping Service, here to help with all your bookkeeping needs. Let’s explore:5 Ways to an Accountant’s Heart

By Patty Hansen | May 15, 2023

1. A Successful Partnership Intuit conducted a survey in October 2022 which found tremendous benefits to the accountant-business owner relationship: ● Nine out of ten small businesses with an accountant or bookkeeper say they contribute to the business’s success. ● More than eight out of ten business owners say accounting professionals helped them reduce the…

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Team One Accounting is Orange County’s Local Bookkeeping Service, flying in to help with your bookkeeping needs.

By Patty Hansen | Apr 28, 2023

Cool Tech Tools: Drones Drones were considered fun when they first came out, but they are far from toys. Drones have surprising benefits with extremely high return on investment to certain business owners. A drone is a robot that can fly and that is controlled by a remote device. The technology includes GPS (global positioning…

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6 Ideas to Put the Spring into Your Spring Revenue

By Patty Hansen | Apr 14, 2023

While spring brings a change in the weather for most locations, it also brings a number of opportunities to refresh your products and services. Spring is a great time to boost your marketing campaigns so that you can boost your business revenues. For Example, “Let us give your Books a thorough SPRING-CLEANING!” Adding the theme…

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Is Sunk Cost Bias Affecting Your Spending Decisions?

By Patty Hansen | Mar 22, 2023

A sunk cost is simply money, time, or resources that you have already spent and can’t get back. Another word for them is retrospective costs. The bias comes into the picture when we consider those costs in future decisions. One example is when you have already invested a lot of time and money in a…

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Do You Need a Business Savings Account?

By Patty Hansen | Mar 15, 2023

If you have accumulated more money in your business checking account than you really need for daily operating expenses, that is a nice problem to have! It’s time to consider putting that money to work. A business savings account might be your answer. Every bank is different when it comes to the features and benefits…

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Understanding Equity on the Balance Sheet for a Sole Proprietor

By Li Lin | Feb 28, 2023

The equity section of the balance sheet looks different depending on the legal structure of your business. The most common entity types are corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietors. In this article, we’ll take a look at what the equity section of the balance sheet looks like for sole proprietors. The Equity Section As a reminder,…

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