Ask the Expert: An MBA’s Guide to Cash Flow Analysis
Research from Bank of America tells us that of all the businesses that conduct yearly cash flow analyses and forecasts, only 36% succeed. That number jumps to 80% for companies [...]
Why Startups and Enterprises are Moving Away from Monthly Bookkeeping (and You Should Too)
“The death of monthly accounting,” as Andrew Hoag, CEO of Teampay, calls it, “has long been overdue.” Monthly bookkeeping has been the old standby, but it doesn’t support any business—from [...]
Optimizing Your Business’ Financial Strategy for the Digital World
Managing a thriving business is, first and foremost, dependent on how well it can keep up with the competition within ever-shifting markets. While this has always been at the core [...]
How a Bookkeeping App Lets You Complete Bookkeeping Tasks in Minutes, Not Hours
As a small business owner, you’re starved for time. Seventy percent of small business owners say they’re even too busy to eat during the day. One significant time- (and lunch-) [...]
Ask the Expert: How to Prepare for a Sales Tax Audit
Owning a business of any size that sells taxable goods or services means you may be subject to a sales tax audit at any time. Businesses that sell their products [...]
Ask the Expert: How to Improve Your Customer Support
According to SCORE, 40% of small businesses believe that customer experience helps retention and is their top growth strategy. At Neat, we definitely agree, which is why we believe in [...]
Inefficient Bookkeeping is Costing Your Small Business: Here’s How to Improve
40% of small business owners spend 80 hours on tax preparation/bookkeeping tasks each year — from manually entering transaction data into a spreadsheet to determining how to categorize transactions. The [...]
What You Need to Know About Google’s E-A-T Algorithm
If you're a small business owner, you've heard it over and over again: It’s important to convince Google your small business website is credible. Unless you're a search engine optimization [...]
Ask the Expert: The CFO’s Guide to Reducing Business Costs
According to the Small Business Credit Survey, 19% of small business owners are hard-pressed to find funds to keep the lights on. While making more revenue would obviously be the [...]
Why Business Owners are Moving Away from Outsourced Bookkeeping (& You Should Too)
Traditional bookkeeping isn’t a task that small-business owners are exactly thrilled to complete in-house. But only 14% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) fully outsource bookkeeping. Why? Ultimately, despite the [...]