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Consistently!Keeping up with your books is like flossing your teeth. You must do it everyday. Can’t do it once a year before tax time to get any value out of your books anymore than you can floss right before your semi-annual dental checkup and expect results.Your books speak to you through your transactions. Only when information is entered correctly, can you get the answers you seek.How you do it is up to you. Paper and pencil works. Or use a software program. I like QuickBooks Online. You’ll see in real-time where you stand. But again, you must keep up with it.AND you must know accounting.I suggest at a minimum you hire a professional to review your work quarterly.Reading between the lines, you probably want to save money by doing it yourself. In the long run - you won’t. You may miss on tax deductions, business deadlines causing penalties and a myriad of other things. What is your time worth? Sell one more item and you can pay for it.Of course, I am biased since this is what I do. From experience, the business people working with a professional have greater income, less stress and more time. Find one you “connect’ with. It will make all the difference to you and your success.Good Luck!

there are already some very good answers here. I just wanted to emphasize that manual accounting is by far the best way to learn accounting, automated is the only way to do accounting. if you need a glaring example, try to find paper tax forms. in the primitive days, you could find them in the post office, libraries and many government offices. today? if you don't have a computer, you're just out of luck.

Yes and no. Many of my clients are on QB when they hire me, but so far none have stayed on QB once I showed them better options for their particular business where all of my clients are Govt contractors (companies whose customers are Federal Govt such as DOD, DOE, DARPA, etc. as the Govt is the largest customer in the country as they spend billions every year on everything from rockets to toilet paper and one of the best things about this customer is that they pay timely, oftentimes in 3–5 days).Anyway, in order to provide goods or services to these Govt customers, (which may be Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Universities, Veterans organizations and so many). You must have a proper job cost accounting system to be able to bill them properly and QuickBooks is not that system. So I would never recommend to my clients and hate to see so many doing things the hard way manually, thinking they are saving money by doing everything manually in Excel when they could just click a few times.