⚡️If you think balances = bookkeeping, we need to talk… ⚡️

🔥 Balances Aren’t Bookkeeping 🔥

Ever been tempted to just drop in a monthly total and call it “done”? Yeah… no. Bookkeeping isn’t a shortcut game—it’s about details, clarity, and yes, a little bit of struggle (even for the pros).

✨ Here’s the real deal:

📊 Reconcile like a pro → It doesn’t matter if the bank cuts statements midweek—reconcile to the statement date and keep moving.

🧾 Transactions matter → Totals won’t cut it. Every dollar has a story, and your job is to tell it.

💡 Struggle = Growth → We’ve all been there. Asking questions and making mistakes is exactly how you level up.

👉 Welcome to the club, new bookkeepers. It’s spicy, it’s messy, but it’s worth it.

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🔥 New Episode Drop: Bookkeepers on Fire with the legendary William “Murph” Murphy of Insightful Accountant 🔥

This week we went deep on what it really looks like to lead, serve, and stay all-in for our profession — even while life is throwing curveballs.

Here’s a taste of what we unpacked with Murph 👇

💥 From funeral homes to QuickBooks royalty – How Murph’s wild career path ran through medicine, paramedics, health economics, offshore financing (😳) and eventually into accounting, data repair, and becoming the editorial engine behind Insightful Accountant.

🧠 Behind the curtain of the Top 100 ProAdvisor Awards – The dog-show inspired scoring system (yes, really 🐕), why it’s 100% standards-based and mostly objective, and why you cannot win unless you complete the application (nomination alone won’t cut it).

🔥 Premium content, QB Talks & what’s coming next – Murph’s 16-article weeks, 80–90 page reports, in-depth blue papers, expanded QB Talks, and how Insightful Accountant is leveling up training, app comparisons, and ProAdvisor support for 2026 and beyond. 

If you’re a bookkeeper or accounting pro who’s ready to be seen, valued, and elevated — this one’s for you.

Here is the link to apply: https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/00DALX

👉 Tag a ProAdvisor who needs to apply this year
👉 Save this post as your reminder to fill out that application
👉 Stay fired up and intentional 🔥✨

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💥 “Hackers don’t break into banks anymore—they break into bookkeepers.”

🚨 Traveling with tech? It’s not just about convenience—it’s about protecting your client’s goldmine of data. Hackers love bookkeepers (because that’s where the juicy stuff is 💳🔐).

Here’s what we spilled in this week’s episode of Bookkeepers on Fire:

✨ Laptop > Tablet – iPads are great for Netflix, not payroll. Functionality matters when you’re working on the road.
 
🔒 Security isn’t optional – VPNs, WISP docs, and Practice Protect aren’t “extras,” they’re essentials.
 
🌍 WiFi traps everywhere – especially airports like Maui ✈️. Stick to cellular data or risk starring on the Dark Web.

🔥 Bottom line: If you wouldn’t leave your house uninsured in hurricane season, don’t leave your client data unprotected online.

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⚡️ “If it smells scammy, it IS scammy.” 🚨

Ever been told by “QuickBooks Support” that it’ll cost you $249.99 to fix your books? Yeah… fake support scams are real (and pricey 💸).

✨ 3 Hot Takeaways:

🛑 If “support” asks for upfront $$$ — HANG UP. Legit QuickBooks support doesn’t charge like that.

📂 Banks have quirks: some go back 7 years, others only 60 days. Know your bank’s limits before you panic.

🤖 AI + CSV uploads > manual entry. Train yourself now, and you’ll thank yourself later.

🔥 Pro tip: Do it right, not easy. Fake fixes = fake results.

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⚡️“Hot take: If you’re whining about processing fees, you’re already doing it wrong.”⚡️

💳 Processing fees got you grumpy? Think again. Paying those fees means you’re actually making 💵 (congrats 🎉). But here’s the kicker—stop nickel-and-diming your clients with “convenience fees.” It’s not convenient. It’s annoying.

✨ Key Takeaways from this week’s Bookkeepers on Fire:

🚫 Don’t scare clients away with extra line-item credit card fees (they’ll walk—just ask Vegas 🎰).

💡 Instead, bake the cost into your pricing—make it seamless, make it easy, make it frictionless.

💳 Remember: McDonald’s, Amazon, Macy’s… none of them charge you extra to swipe a card. Be that business.

👉 Stop treating processing fees like a burden—make them part of the experience. Because Processing Fees Rock. 🎸💸

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🚨 Hiring contractors overseas? Don’t overcomplicate it. We just broke it down on Bookkeepers on Fire and here’s the 🔥 truth:

✅ Contractor ≠ Employee – If they’re outside the U.S., they’re not subject to U.S. payroll taxes.
 
📝 W-8BEN is Your Friend – Have it on file, don’t send it anywhere. Just keep it for your records.

🌍 Simple, Not Scary – Unless you’re setting up payroll in another country (👀 Canada anyone?), don’t make it harder than it needs to be.

Sometimes the biggest bookkeeping “headaches” are actually just paperwork in disguise. 😉✍️

👉 Would you ever hire a contractor outside the U.S.? Why or why not?

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🚨 Nine years of messy books later… and guess what? They finally called a bookkeeper. 🙃

When clients come in with chaos, here’s the deal:

✨ Fresh Books, Fresh Start – Don’t dig through a decade of dust. Get what’s needed for the tax return and move forward.
 
💸 Charge What It’s Worth – Cleanups aren’t charity. Minimums matter. Yes, even $10K+ for the mess they created.

 📝 ROI Reality Check – No one cares if that 2016 repair was “office supplies.” The IRS just wants the return filed.

👉 Bookkeepers: Don’t sell yourself short. Clients waited nine years — they can wait for the invoice too. 💥

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🔥 Bookkeepers, let’s get real... do we really need to sit around waiting for bank statements before entering transactions? 

Spoiler alert: nope. Business keeps moving, and so should you. 🚀

Here’s the spicy takeaway from our latest Bookkeepers on Fire episode:

✨ 3 Hot Truths About Reconciling:
💻 Enter First, Reconcile Later → Don’t let missing statements slow your workflow. Keep the books rolling.

🏦 Bank Feeds Rule → If balances match, statements start to look like yesterday’s news.

🌟 Old School is Over → Statements are turning into nothing more than a dusty touchpoint for the curious accountant.

⚡ Keep it moving. Keep it accurate. Keep it fiery.

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🚨 Just landed your “first client”? Hold up… not so fast. 🚨

Here’s the real deal from our latest Bookkeepers on Fire episode 🎙️👇

✨ 3 Hot Truths:

💸 Prospect ≠ Client → Until there’s 💵 on the table (and a signed engagement letter), you’ve got a maybe, not a client.

🍔 Fries Still Cost Extra → Minimum pricing is non-negotiable. You don’t get a discount just because you don’t eat the fries.

🤖 Transactions vs. Transformation → Are you a keystroke-counter (AI bait) or the advisor who changes lives?

🎧 Catch the full episode where we spill the sarcasm and the strategy → #BookkeepersOnFire

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Bookkeepers are DONE playing small. 🔥

In our latest Bookkeepers on Fire episode, Deb and Donna sat down with Matt Tait of Decimal – a “recovering attorney” turned multi-business founder who's blowing up the traditional firm model and turning bookkeeping into a scalable, lifestyle-friendly business opportunity.

Here’s a taste of what we got into 👇

💥 Stop building yourself a job. Most firm owners stay stuck “doing the work” instead of building a business. Matt breaks down why founders should NOT be the ones in the GL…and what to focus on instead.

🧠 Cleanups, pricing & boundaries (aka: stop bleeding profit). From NOT selling cleanups first, to pricing in relationships (emails, meetings, Slack chaos), Matt shares how Decimal avoids the margin-killing traps most firms fall into.

🚀 Franchising bookkeeping as an operating system. Decimal isn’t just tech + offshore staff. It’s a full blueprint: vertical specialization, community, Philippines-based team support, and AI at the “tip of the spear” so franchisees can actually grow…not drown.

If you’re a bookkeeper or accountant who’s tired of being “just the back office” and ready to think like an entrepreneur, this convo is for you.

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