B&J Bookkeeping & Taxes loves to serve our clients with small to mid-sized business by doing their books and preparing their taxes. Now that tax day has come and gone, we want to share a few tools with you that make our lives easier. Check out our 5 essential small business bookkeeping tools.
1. Jotti Virus Scan
We know firsthand how viruses can destroy your day. One of the most common ways to get one is opening email attachments without scanning them first. We get lots of files from legitimate clients who don’t know they have been hacked and are careful when opening each one. This site allows you to upload the file and check for the latest viruses. It’s also a great option when you are away from a device with updated malware scanners.
2. Convertio
We also get many legitimate files. However, they don’t always work with our system. They may be from a Mac, PC, or at times, even severely outdated devices. Convertio allows you to upload and convert just about any document from AbiWord to XPS into common formats such as docx or pdfs. It can also convert audio, images, videos, archives, and even presentations.
3. Print Friendly
Have a favorite website or page you want a hard copy of? Go to this site to get it all as a downloadable, editable, and printable document. Simply copy and paste your url into the bar to get a pdf you can download, print, or email.
4. Bankrate Calculators
Our business is constantly bombarded with questions such as loan payments and asset ratios. Bankrate offers a full range of calculators for small business, as well as homes, investing, retirement, personal finance, credit cards, taxes, and many more. One of the best small business bookkeeping tools are their calculators for:
- Loan payments.
- Calculator on current ratio.
- Quick ratio calculator.
- Debt to assets ratio.
- Return on assets.
- A calculator for gross profit margin.
You should also give their tax bracket calculator a try.
5. Levitate
We are currently in the midst of building our newsletter services and use this great tool to do the same. Levitate has an easy to use interface that allows you to import your contacts, create amazing emails, and send on a regular basis. Their advanced tools also keep your emails from being marked as junk, spam, or getting bounced back. Full disclosure, we are an affiliate but would recommend their services anyway.
More Houston small business bookkeeping tools
Now that you have the tools you need, get one of the best: a bookkeeper to ensure accurate, honest financial reports. Feel free to contact us if you work in the area and want to learn more about our small to medium sized business bookkeeping services.
