Complete practical guide
The bookkeeping manual that starts with why a wrong entry sets off no alarm at all
37 chapters, 68 resources and 148 AI prompts on keeping small-business records alongside a job — including the four things about this trade that no course mentions.
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What this guide is
Most bookkeeping advice is about software. This book is about the rest of it: the finance payment recorded as equipment hire that ran for fourteen months before anybody noticed, the cutoff of the fifth that three clients out of eleven actually meet, the tax question you will be asked eighty times, and the filing date that nobody in the arrangement can move. It covers the chart of accounts, reconciliations, categorisation judgement calls, invoices, payables, reports, month-end workflows and document collection — with a repeatable nine-step close, a decisions register that records the authority behind every judgement, a fee structure priced per client-month rather than per hour, and a log that tells you within a year which two clients are consuming the margin of six. Every financial figure is blank, because no published rate accounts for the number of reconciliations, the state of the inherited records or whether documents arrive.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- A twelve-question diagnostic and a records inspection run before every quote — because every description of a set of records is optimistic in good faith
- A decisions register that records the authority behind each judgement: a document, a written client instruction, or a named accountant's ruling
- A reconciliation discipline covering every account every month, and why a forced reconciliation is worse than an openly unreconciled one
- A document cutoff with a written mechanic, continuous capture set up at onboarding, and completeness reported every month in the same words
- The advice boundary made practical: what you can say, what you cannot, and the packaging offer that makes the refusal land well
- Six numbers on one page that show whether clients are settling — including the age at discovery of every error you find
- 148 prompts that forbid a model from categorising a transaction, stating a treatment or proposing an adjustment — and explain exactly why that output is uniquely dangerous here
Ideal for
People with a job, a few evenings a week and very little to spend, who are comfortable with detail, willing to ask an obvious-sounding question rather than guess, and able to say "that's a question for your accountant" without embarrassment. No accounting qualification assumed — though Chapter 15 establishes whether one is required where the reader is.
- Anyone with a job and a few evenings a week who wants to keep other people's books properly — including working bookkeepers who have never had a name for why some clients take three times as long at the same fee.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A defined service list, a diagnostic and inspection process used before every quote, a chart of accounts with a definition per account, a decisions register with an authority for every judgement, a reconciliation discipline covering every account every month, a fee structure priced per client-month, and a client-month log producing six numbers that show whether the business is compounding.
A working manual for keeping small-business financial records alongside a job — built around the four facts most bookkeeping advice leaves out: a wrong entry produces no signal at all, the documents are not yours to get, you are not the accountant, and the deadlines belong to somebody else.
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