Balanced Accounting LLC

09/03/2026

Kids are getting ready to go back to school, and surpriseeee I'm taking you back too! 🧑‍🏫

Over the next week, I'm sharing everything I WISH they taught you about taxes...

Starting with tax brackets ↓

We've all heard the story about someone who turned down a raise because they didn't want to pay more in taxes. That stems from misunderstanding how our tax system works!

Moving into a higher tax bracket does NOT mean that all of your money is going to be taxed more.

Just the money that falls into that tax bracket gets hit with the higher rate! 💰

So please, accept the raise!☺️

08/29/2026

The two BIGGEST problems I see when small businesses hire a new contactor?

Not getting the contractor's W-9 and not setting up your bookkeeping software to track payments by contractor.

This combo means you're signing yourself up for a ~not-very-fun~ January when 1099s are due...

So please, save this post and refer back to it before you hire your next contractor. 🙏

08/27/2026

My cute little woman-owned accounting business?!

The one that changed my life, pays my bills, supports small businesses, and gave me the life I used to dream about? 👀

Women don't talk about our wins enough, so today I'm officially ~bragging~ about what Balanced Accounting has achieved over the last 8 years.

Happy Women's Equality Day!🫶

08/22/2026

Trying to recreate your entire 2026 mileage log by triangulating your trips from your Google Maps and calendar? 🔍

Do this instead ↓

📲 Download a mileage app like Everlance or MileIQ.

They automatically track all your trips! Each week, you can go in and categorize whether they were for a personal errand or a legitimate business purpose.

More of a pen + paper person? ✍️

That's totally fine! For each trip, write down these things:

→ The date
→ Starting location + destination
→ Total business miles
→ Specific business purpose
→ Which vehicle you drove (if you drive multiple)

Whatever you do, the IRS wants you to keep a ~timely~ log, so make time for a 5-minute mileage review in your calendar each week. 📆

08/21/2026

Our office is in this beautiful, historic building. 💙

THEN & NOW: Grim Building, Kirksville, Missouri
(C. 1905 & 2026)

The Grim Building, at 113–115 E. Washington Street in Kirksville, was constructed in 1905 for brothers Dr. Ezra Grim and Dr. Edward Grim.

Designed by the St. Louis architectural firm Weber & Groves, the handsome two-story brick building originally housed the Grim brothers’ medical offices, examination rooms and operating facilities, with additional office space rented to other professionals.

The early photograph shows the building shortly after its completion, with a horse and buggy parked out front—a scene from an era when Kirksville was rapidly growing as a regional center for medicine, education and commerce.

More than 120 years later, the Grim Building is still standing in 2026, making it one of downtown Kirksville’s surviving links to the early 20th century.

🇺🇸The Grim Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.🇺🇸

08/20/2026

Small Business Owners: Stop scrolling and make sure you have your own copies of these things saved right now ↓

→ Bank, credit card + loan statements

→ Receipts + vendor invoices

→ Sales reports from your payment processor (Stripe, Etsy, Square, etc.)

→ Payroll reports (deposit confirmations, filings, W-2s/W-3)

→ Tax records (filings, estimated tax payments, IRS or state notices)

→ Bookkeeping records (monthly financial statements, reconciliation reports, year-end financials)

→ Business formation documents (LLC/organization documents, business licenses, EIN letter, state/local registrations, etc.)

These documents shouldn't exclusively live in your iPhone files or a local folder on your laptop; make sure you're saving them to a location that isn't device-dependent! 🖥️

08/18/2026

I would loooove to mind my own business, but...

My business is making sure entrepreneurs know exactly which expenses can legally lower their tax bill + building them long-term tax savings strategies. 💰

08/13/2026

POV: You were going to catch up on your bookkeeping after that family vacation to Mexico... then after the 4th of July... then after the kids go back to school...

I SEE YOU! 👀

And I've seen this pattern with too many small business owners before you to know exactly how it ends: you desperately searching for a bookkeeper before April 15th!

I've laid out the exact steps you need to take to get your bookkeeping caught back up after the summer.

Don't have the time, energy, or desire to do all that?! Contact me to see if working together is a good fit.

08/11/2026

NEWSFLASH: I'm not your dad's accountant...

I like gardening, hiking, and helping small business owners understand their numbers. 🤭

08/06/2026

Small Business Owners: Sometimes, what you think is a tax write-off and what the IRS does are living in two totally separate realities.

I'm here to bring you back down to earth (and hopefully prevent you from getting a nasty IRS notice!). 🙅