Answer: They both clean up the messes you’ve made!

I’ve got a feeling that I am in a pretty elite club. That would be individuals who have earned both their MBA (Master of Business Administration) and their CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant). – More on that journey in another blog post. Having such a varied professional life I believe the biggest messes I’ve had to clean up were found in folks books rather than in senior’s pants!

How Clean Does My Bookkeeping Need to Be?

As Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “…there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” A question you might be asking now is how clean does my bookkeeping need to be? Let me respond by using a key skill used my CNAs – bathing.

When it comes to cleaning your own body we have different standards depending on the situation. For instance if your mother tells you to “go wash up for dinner” that’s probably going to be something like washing your hands and maybe your face. If you are prepping for a hot date you are probably going to jump in the shower and get clean from head to toe. On the other hand if you are a surgeon that is about to go into the operating room you are going to have a very in-depth scrubbing technique that helps to ensure that everything is a sterile as can be because the stakes are so high.

To bring this back to bookkeeping the answer to how clean do your books need to be is going to be something else that is familiar to CNAs – Depends!

In much the same way that all of the various cleaning methods above require soap and water our bookkeeping solutions have some across the board solutions such as having a system like Quickbooks Online and following GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) is the foundation for all we do.

Beyond those basic services we provide to all of our clients, we really try and figure out where the biggest issues are for our clients. For some it might be that they feel like they are doing fairly well with the business, but there is just never enough money in the bank. We can help them figure out where their cash is actually going and suggest changes that will help their cash flow. For others maybe they have not touched their books in years definitely are years behind in filing their taxes. While we don’t file taxes we can get your books ready to pass along to your CPA. Most of the time the reason that our clients trust us with their bookkeeping needs is that they realize that the time they are spending on keeping their books in order is time that they are not out selling their products and services. My trying to do the books themselves they are actually losing out on jobs they could be billing for.

In addition to our base services we also offer assistance in maintaining AR (Accounts Receivable) and AP (Account Payable). We can help with Payroll Management, Budgeting, and Forecasting as well.

Unlike a CNA that physically needs to be in the same room as you in order to help you we are a virtual service. Using the latest secure technology we are able to serve clients across the country. Utilizing programs such as Zoom we are able to hold virtual meetings with our clients in order to go over monthly Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flow reports in a way that our clients can understand and use.

If you’ve got a mess that could use a well experienced clean-up expert give us a call today.

Ensemble Bookkeeping
(706) 236-4100