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Dangers Of The Low Cost Bookkeeper
For those that have never gone through the process of replacing their bookkeeper or have never worked with a professional accountant, let us share some of the lessons we learned the hard way. When we started our company, we were an accounting firm that...
Top 10 List Accounting Services For Entrepreneurs
An entrepreneur’s accountant should be doing more than just keeping the books. The entrepreneur’s accountant should be adding value to the business by providing the following services, asking the following questions, or handling the following business...
Tax CPAs Do Not Review Your Books
Some business owners are relieved because they have a qualified tax CPA filing their returns. Well, I hate to break the bad news, but by design a tax CPA is there to help business owners reduce their tax liability. Tax CPAs generally don’t review the...
The Surrender Experiment – Our Favorite Finds
If I had to choose one book that has had the greatest impact on my life, it would be The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer. It is, without question, my favorite book of all time. What makes this book so meaningful to me is that when I first read it, it felt...
The End of an Era, Passing the Torch
Some endings are worth celebrating. After nearly 400 episodes and almost 19 years, The CPA MOMS Podcast is publishing its final episode. And rather than quietly fading out, founder Mayumi Young stepped to the microphone to do what she has always done best: show up for...
The Art of the Smaller Promise: Why Doing Less Gets You Further
There's a productivity myth that most of us have been running on for years. It goes something like this: the more you commit to, the more you'll get done. Fill the list, fill the day, push through, and eventually it all adds up. Except it doesn't. Not really. Not in a...
The Quiet Thing Undermining Your Productivity Every Day
There's a version of this story you probably know well. You sit down, make a solid plan, feel genuinely good about it, and then the day happens. Something shifts, something slips, and by evening you're back at square one — maybe with a new plan, but also with a small,...
Decision Fatigue Is Draining You More Than Your Workload Is
You wake up with good intentions. You have a full day ahead, a list of things that need to get done, and the motivation to get started. But by mid-afternoon, something shifts. The simplest decisions feel harder than they should. You know you need to work on something...
Your To-Do List Isn’t the Problem. Your System Is.
Have you ever finished a full day of work and still felt completely behind? You checked emails, crossed things off your list, stayed busy from morning to evening — and yet, when you stopped to think about it, you couldn't point to anything that really moved the...
Why You Can Do More in Two Hours Than Eight (When Your Energy Is Aligned)
There's a belief most women in accounting carry around without even realizing it. It sounds like this: if I just had more time, I could get it all done. More hours in the day. More days in the week. More capacity, somehow, squeezed out of an already full life. But...
Stop Chasing Balance and Start Building Rhythm
If you've ever ended the day feeling like you did a lot but accomplished nothing, you're not alone. And if you've ever wondered why the productivity hacks everyone swears by just don't seem to work for you, the answer probably isn't what you think. It's not that you...
The Late-Night Work Trap: What Exhausted Productivity Is Actually Costing You
There's a version of this story that almost every mom building a practice knows personally. The kids are finally asleep. The house is quiet. You open your laptop and tell yourself: now I can actually get something done. This is your time. The only time that feels like...
Productivity Isn’t About Doing More. It’s About Doing What Matters.
If you've ever felt like you're doing everything and still falling behind, you're not alone. That never-ending to-do list that only seems to grow? The exhaustion that follows you into every morning? That's not a personal failure. It's the result of a culture that...
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