Tag: business expenses
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Spend vs Expense Management: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters for Small Business
At Neat, we often hear small business owners use the terms spend management and expense management like they’re the same thing. While they’re closely related, they’re not identical. Knowing the difference between spend vs expense management can help you run your business smarter, save money, and keep your finances under control. We built Neat to…
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Expense Tracking for Small Business: A Simple System That Actually Works
At Neat, we talk to small business owners every day who feel overwhelmed by managing expenses. We get it. Running a business means wearing many hats, and keeping track of costs often falls to the bottom of the list. Yet ignoring expense tracking leads to bigger problems like cash flow issues, tax headaches, and missed…
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How to Keep Track of Business Expenses and Why It’s Important
As a business owner, do you handle your own finances without the help of a bookkeeper or an accountant? If you do, you’ve likely had the experience of bookkeeping tasks—like recording business expenses—falling to the wayside for a multitude of reasons (e.g. you’ve been really busy or the idea of bookkeeping summons a deep dread,…
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Simplify Bookkeeping with These Five Types of Business Expenses
If you’ve used small-business accounting software, you’ve been faced with dozens of expense categories. (Does printing for a client go under the “Cost of Goods Sold” or “Office Supplies” category?) It can be overwhelming, to say the least. But it doesn’t have to be. At Neat, we’ve found that organizing business expenses into just five…