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It’s December. Your inbox is full, your desk is covered in receipts, and your tax documents are nowhere to be found. You are trying to close out the year strong — but instead, you are drowning in spreadsheets, scrambling for missing numbers, and wondering how it got this messy.

We manage meetings over Zoom. We collaborate on projects from different time zones. We even run entire businesses from our phones.

At first glance, handling your own bookkeeping might seem like a smart way to save money. After all, why pay someone else when you can manage the numbers yourself? But the reality is, DIY bookkeeping often comes with hidden costs that can quietly erode your profits and peace of mind.

If you are like most small business owners, you have probably looked at bookkeeping as just another cost — something that takes time, money, and energy you would rather spend elsewhere. Maybe you have even thought, “I can just handle it myself… for now.”

For many small business owners, that “leak” is messy, inconsistent bookkeeping. You are managing customers, employees, operations — and somewhere in the middle of it all, the numbers get ignored.