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Have you ever had a chunk of cash one day and then the next, it's gone? Did you ask yourself "Where the heck did it go?!" Did you ever find you and someone else wondering if you paid them something you owed them or if they paid you something they owed you?

 Ugh, it can be frustrating... I am lazy. I hate writing down things when they happen, I'd rather just live my life, BUT in the long-run (poor, abused Long-Run) it WILL make my life much better.

Sooo, July was the one year anniversary of my business and I think it is high time I straighten out my paperwork. I have been working on it for weeks.


Creating Charts on:
#1. What I'm paid for being receptionist in the Chiropractor's office.
#2. What I earn outside of the office when I make therapy out-calls.
#3. Business purchases I make - and that includes rent of my space.
#4. All the clients I receive IN the office and what they pay me.
#5. Then my personal preference: my business statistics, which covers how my business has progressed in amount of clients and income over each month - it's very interesting.

I'm weird. I love all the quantitative stuff and figuring out why, how, when etc. I need to make myself notes more when something out of the ordinary happens in my finances because I WILL NOT remember next month! Sometimes I don't even understand my own notes though! Argghh.

Google Docs @ docs.google.com is my friend!! It immortalizes my documents online FOR FREE and is easy to use. And tidy. I highly recommend using that. I make a table with like 5 columns across and like 30 rows down and just fill in the Date, Amount, Check #'s if applicable, and End Totals for the month.

Example:

Date	Earned the Week Before	To Dr. 30%	To Taxes 15%
08/17/15	$45.00	$15.00	$06.75

I know all of this and maybe even more can be documented and managed best on something like QuickBooks, but that costs money and to me this is simple.  I have fun with it, too - except when the numbers don't match up!

So DON'T BE LAZY!  You won't regret it!!