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Tax Prep & Bookkeeping Support – Tax & Financial Firm
I was full-time at this tax firm, handling everything from bookkeeping and financial reporting to client calls, office ops, and tech troubleshooting.
I:
• Maintained QuickBooks records and managed AP/AR
• Prepared monthly reports and supported tax prep for clients
• Handled incoming docs, organized data, and tracked filings
• Ran front office duties, client communications, and scheduling
• Built out filing systems that actually made sense for the team
• Stepped in for IT support when systems broke during tax season
It wasn’t glamorous—but I kept it all running. Being a Swiss Army knife taught me how to juggle pressure, solve problems fast, and never let the books fall behind.
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Fair question. Honestly, this is one of the most common things business owners ask me.
Here’s how I explained it. When you pay for a full year of insurance, the money leaves your bank on day one. But the insurance company protects you for 12 months, not one day. So you only use a small part of it at the start. The unused part isn’t an expense yet. It’s cover you have already paid for and still have.
Say you pay 24,000 on 1 October for a 12 month policy. Each month, 2,000 moves into expenses.
By 31 December, you have used 3 months:
Expense so far: 6,000
Still unused: 18,000
That 18,000 stays on the balance sheet as prepaid.
The client still wasn’t fully sure from the numbers alone, so I showed them year by year:
Year 1 (Oct to Dec): 6,000 used, 18,000 still prepaid
Year 2 (Jan to Sep): 18,000 used, 0 left
By the end of the policy, the full 24,000 has moved into expenses. Nothing is lost. It just moves a little each month, as you use the cover.
That’s when it clicked for them.
Rent paid in advance, software subscriptions, annual membership, visa fees and licence fees all work the same way. Pay now, use over time, expense a little each month.
If your bookkeeper says “prepaid” and you just nod, ask them for a schedule like this. It’s your money, you should be able to see where it is.
Here's what restricted fund tracking actually looks like in the books, not just in theory.
This is a class-tracked statement of activities from a real nonprofit close: program funds, management & general, and fundraising, each kept separate so a $20,000 restricted gift can never quietly cover something it wasn't meant for.
If your statements can't show this split clearly, that's usually a setup problem, not a staff problem.
