Same time every week
Thirty minutes weekly beats a weekend in March.
Why March is always painful
Twelve months of decisions get made in one weekend, from memory, with half the receipts missing.
How we work
Current beats clever
Freelancers rarely need sophisticated accounting. They need a separate account, a short category list and a routine that takes half an hour and actually happens.
Records have to be contemporaneous to be worth much. A receipt photographed at the counter and a mileage note written the same day are worth far more than a reconstruction ten months later.
And the value of clean books shows up when you hand them over. A tax professional given organized records spends their time advising you instead of sorting paper, which is both cheaper and considerably more useful.
Our principles
Three beliefs behind the method
Capture at the moment
Records made later are worth less and often missing.
Tax questions go to a professional
We coach records. We give no tax or legal advice.
Shall we look at your books?
Twenty minutes, free, on the state of things and the first step.