Archive for April, 2008

An accounting home based business or one which specializes in bookkeeping has a high chance of being successful.

Tax preparation, bookkeeping and accounting services are amongst the most popular home-based businesses in America. This is also true of many other countries in the world.

There are also opportunities to provide tax assistance, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and inventory services.

If you are comfortable working with numbers, good with detail and very well organised its likely you have the attributes required to make a good go of it. Read the rest of this entry

Why bother with a home business credit card ? Well…..from a tax and accounting perspective it is important to separate your personal income from your business income.

This also applies if you have multiple businesses. Keep a separate set of accounts for each business.

Once you have separate accounts setup, accounting for all the revenue and costs for your businesses becomes a whole lot easier.

The same applies to your credit card (or cards). Don’t make the mistake of putting your business expenses on a your personal credit card.

Having a separate credit card is handy for any home based internet business. Most of the products for sale online today require a credit card for payment. This especially applies if your advertising with the larger PPC programs link Adwords.

We run three separate accounts for our online home business: Read the rest of this entry

Here’s a couple of older posts on an interesting topic.

Most people know about house flipping. Probably not an easy business right now but the principal is the same for limited edition eBay flipping.

First you buy limited editions of prints or fashion items at a sale – then sell them on eBay for a profit.

Here are a couple of links providing more background. Read the rest of this entry