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Plain-language guides to bookkeeping, tax, and the decisions every small business faces. Evergreen explainers — no clicking through menus, just the concepts that make your numbers make sense.

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40 guides • 6 learning paths • Accounting-informed education • Review status shown by guide
01 · Learning Paths

Six tracks, start to confident

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10 guides Accounting Foundations The vocabulary and mechanics underneath every set of books — cash vs. accrual, accounts, debits and credits, reconciliation. Basics -> Intermediate Start path 06 guides Reading Your Financials Turn your P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement into decisions you can actually act on. Basics -> Advanced Start path 09 guides Tax Basics for Small Business Deductions, deadlines, and quarterly estimates — what you owe, when, and how to keep more of what you earn. Basics -> Advanced Start path 05 guides Choosing Your Structure LLC, S-corp, sole prop — what the labels mean and how each one changes your taxes and liability. Basics -> Advanced Start path 05 guides People & Payroll Employees vs. contractors, payroll taxes, and the paperwork that keeps both you and the IRS happy. Basics -> Advanced Start path 05 guides Sales Tax & Compliance Nexus, collection, and remittance across states — staying compliant as you grow past your home turf. Basics -> Advanced Start path
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Cash vs. accrual accounting: which is right for you?

The most consequential choice in how you keep your books, explained with examples for both methods.

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The most consequential choice in how you keep your books, explained with examples for both methods.

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40 plain-language guides across six topics. Search, filter, and sort the full library.

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Foundations Cash vs. accrual accounting: which is right for you? The most consequential choice in how you keep your books, explained with examples for both methods. Basics 7 min Financials How to read a profit & loss statement Revenue, cost of goods, and the lines between them. What your P&L is really telling you. Basics 8 min Tax Small business tax deductions: the essentials The deductions almost every business can take, and the records you need to back them up. Basics 9 min Structure When should you incorporate? Signs you've outgrown the sole proprietorship — and what incorporating actually buys you. Basics 7 min Payroll W-2 employee vs. 1099 contractor The classification that carries real legal and tax weight — and how to get it right. Basics 8 min Sales Tax Sales tax basics for small business When you have to collect, what's taxable, and how remittance works. Basics 7 min