doing the books

[Mike]

every when do you do your books? i woke up at 5 this morning and couldnt get back to sleep so i got up and spent an hour doing my books, i've not done them since beginning of feb, loads of receipts to log in, nightmare:mad2: how often do you do yours? are you organised or do you have a pile of receipts on the passenger floor of the van like me?

 

[FrankM]

Come home, have a shower, 10 minutes every night on the books, a then relax with a few cold ones (oh sorry you guys don't know what that is..... I mean cold beer :8

It's quite surprising how easy the bookwork is when you get into the habit of doing them straight away. Alternatively, get the Mrs to do them

 

[Ian]

I have got more organised in recent months, set up spreadsheets on excel, have a box for the receipts/invoices, then when they've been logged they all go into a filing cabinet in month order ready for the accountants. Try to do them once a week, but in reality it's every month.

 

[Stewart]

Book keeper comes in every two weeks and and the accountant does the rest......


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[hillhead]

My office or sorry van holds plenty and I usually gather up from it every few months but I book most weeks.
Near time again now too.

 

[Perry]

i have a book keeper comes in once a month sorts my mess out

 

[White Room]

The other half sorts mine out....

 

[peteablard]

I seem to be getting more and more organised each year. I remember having 12 months worth of receipts on my dashboard one year! This year I'm bang up to date, up to and including today's fuel receipt

 

[charlie1]

I created a database within ms access, then created a form to log every receipt, all information is selected from dropdown boxes so i dont input any dodgy ones, then I created some sql based queeries that retrieve the desired information from the database when needed, i.e, how much total takings did i take in Nov?, OR who is my best referer? Or how much did i spend on tools between feb and may?? ..sql can tell you anything about your business. I do have a history in IT so thought id use my knowledge to help my business.

 

[Mike]

Come home, have a shower, 10 minutes every night on the books, a then relax with a few cold ones (oh sorry you guys don't know what that is..... I mean cold beer :8

It's quite surprising how easy the bookwork is when you get into the habit of doing them straight away. Alternatively, get the Mrs to do them

she'll know how much i earn then :yikes:

 

[radim]

all my receipts are well organised on my dashboard...:mad2:

 

[bugs183]

Every piece of paper goes in the file that day.
I taught myself excel off Youtube, and created an estimating spreadsheet that automatically creates an invoice, so as soon as the job is done the invoice is ready.
My accountant is going to have my books in his hands in April, first time ever. He'll have a heart attack.

 

[Sean Page]

Usually do mine once a month, I use excel to keep everything in order and just print off the whole lot at the end of each year. My other half wants me to set up a sage act database so that I can easily track more detail

 

[widler]

erm,aint got a clue really,i just wiz everything in a cupboard,and in april,or when my accountant reminds me to do so, i throw it all in the back of the motor,take into accountants and run like the clappers