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The Conference Room
Sharing my journey and experiences, along with the most common topics I discuss with clients, to provide insights that help fellow small business owners navigate their paths to success


Is Your Bookkeeping Communication Causing Frustration Time to Consider a Better Solution
If your bookkeeping communication happens mostly through email, you might be facing more trouble than you realize. Email threads can quickly become confusing and overwhelming. One person CCs another, someone hits reply all, questions get scattered across multiple messages, and soon you have a long chain of emails with no clear way to track what’s been answered or what’s still pending. This common scenario wastes time and creates frustration for everyone involved. Fortunately,

Chris Freeman
May 134 min read


Job Costing Software for Service Contractors: What to Know Before You Buy
Job costing software can be a game changer for service contractors — but the gap between the sales pitch and reality can cost you more than you bargained for. Before you connect anything to QuickBooks, know what questions to ask and what to watch for. Duplicate entries, overwritten data, and integration headaches are real. It can be done right — but it takes attention.

Chris Freeman
Apr 256 min read


How a Small Business in Hickory, NC Should Manage Documents & Receipts
Keeping up with receipts as a small business owner is usually the last thing anyone wants to think about. You’re busy serving clients, managing employees, and making sure the day‑to‑day operations run smoothly. Most of us have heard of — or personally used — the shoebox method: tossing all receipts into one place and hoping it all works out later. While that approach is better than not keeping receipts at all, let’s be honest: Can you actually find what you need when the time

Chris Freeman
Apr 224 min read


How We Helped a Business Stop Chasing Down Missing Reports Every Monday Morning
If you manage multiple offices, franchises, or a team that submits weekly forms, you already know the drill. Monday rolls around, and someone has to figure out who did and didn't send in their paperwork. Maybe it's a deposit form, a compliance checklist, or an end-of-week report. Whatever it is, tracking it down manually takes time — and it almost always falls on the same person every single week. We recently built an automation for exactly this problem, and it's a great exam

Chris Freeman
Apr 163 min read


A Claude AI Outage on Tax Day? No Way!?
Honestly, we can't say we are surprised with the Claude AI outages on Tax Day with things like the Turbo Tax Connector. Technology has been moving quickly. Some spreadsheets that used to feel state of the art to us now look like dinosaurs, and we have replaced them with newer workflows — sometimes with the help of AI. Every time we scroll on social media, we see some cheesy ad staged as a podcast interview talking about how this one specific software changed their life and no

Chris Freeman
Apr 152 min read


Calling All Hickory Business Owners: Get a Head Start Before Year-End | Small Business Bookkeeping Hickory NC
⏰ Don’t wait until February to start scrambling through drawers and inboxes for your business records. If you’re a business owner in...

Chris Freeman
Sep 16, 20252 min read


WHAT THE HECK ARE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS?
Now that I have your attention, I’d like to answer a question I often receive when asked about my business that usually goes, “Now, what...

Chris Freeman
Jul 15, 20252 min read


Why QuickBooks, Hubdoc, and Adobe Acrobat Are My Everyday Accounting Allies
As an accountant, my days are filled with numbers, calculations, and countless documents that need managing. In my world, staying...

Chris Freeman
Sep 23, 20242 min read


5 Game-Changing Tips for Small Business Owners: Advice from an Accountant
Attention all small business owners! As an accountant who has seen a lot, I want to share with you the 5 essential things that every...

Chris Freeman
Sep 20, 20242 min read
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