The Profitjets Blog
Finance Writing for People Running the Business
Practical articles on bookkeeping, accounting, tax, payroll and financial strategy, written for founders and operators rather than for other accountants.
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What is Bookkeeping: A Step-by-Step Guide
What bookkeeping covers, how it differs from accounting, and the five-step process behind a clean set of books.
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The Role of a CFO in Insurance Companies
Reserving, solvency and statutory reporting, the core of an insurance CFO's work.
The Role of a CFO in Real Estate Sector
What a CFO does in property, from deal underwriting to investor reporting.
The Role of a CFO in the Construction Sector
Job costing, WIP and cash timing, the three problems a construction CFO manages.
The Role of a Virtual CFO for Startups: What They Do and When You Need One
What Is a Virtual CFO for a Startup, Startup-Specific Responsibilities, and When to Hire a Virtual CFO.
The Role of an Outsourced Accounting Firm for Startups
Why Startups Need Different Accounting Than Established Businesses and Core Accounting Needs from Day One.
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Your Business Finances in Order
The sequence that works, catching up, and what good looks like.
The Ultimate Guide to LLC Tax Rates: What Every Business Owner Needs to Know
Why there is no single rate, and what the states charge anyway.
The Ultimate Guide to Net 30 Payment Terms for Small Businesses
What the terms must say, whether to discount, and how to enforce.
Tips on Bookkeeping for Schools
Fees, grants, payroll and activity funds, kept straight across an academic year.
Tips to Choose the Best Online Bookkeeping Service for Your Business
Reputation, scope, software and price, and how to weigh them when every provider says the same things.
Top 10 Bookkeeping Software for US Businesses in 2026
1. QuickBooks Online, 2. Xero, and 3. FreshBooks.
Top 10 Businesses to Start in 2026 (With Financial Reality Checks)
How to Choose: Matching Business Model to Your Situation and Quick Comparison: Which Business Is Right for You.
Top 10 Reasons to Outsource Bookkeeping for Your Business
Ten reasons businesses hand the books over, the services worth outsourcing, and the models available.
Top 15 Accounting Terms Every Small Business Owner Should Know in 2026
Fifteen terms every small business owner meets, defined once and properly.
Top 3 Tax Saving Strategies for Small Business Owners: Maximise Deductions and Reduce Your Tax Burden
Three strategies worth acting on, and the conditions attached to each.
Top 5 Accounts Payable Challenges and How Automation Helps
The five challenges, the fraud risk nobody lists, and what to fix first.
Top 6 Expense Tracker Tools for Small Business in 2026
Six tools compared, and the policy that makes any of them work.
Top 7 Signs It's Time to Outsource Bookkeeping Solutions for Your Business
Seven signals that a business has outgrown doing its own books, plus the risks of outsourcing and how to manage them.
Top 7 Steps to Create the Perfect Business Budget
What to gather first, the steps, and where first budgets go wrong.
Top Mistakes to Avoid When Registering a Company in the USA from India
The order of the steps, and what the founder takes on personally.
Top Receipt Management Apps for Small Business in 2026
How they compare, and where they fit in your close.
Treasurer vs CFO: Key Differences in Roles and Duties
Cash and liquidity against the whole financial picture.
Trial Balance: What It Is, How to Prepare It, and What It Shows
What the Trial Balance Shows, Sample Trial Balance Structure, and Unadjusted vs Adjusted Trial Balance.
Trucking Accounting: Why Owner-Operators and Fleets Outsource Their Books
Why Trucking Accounting Is Its Own Specialty, IFTA: The Most Common Trucking Compliance Trap, and Revenue: Per-Mile.
What we write about
Eight topics we come back to
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Bookkeeping
Clean books, reconciliations, chart of accounts and month-end close.
Accounting
Close process, financial statements, cash against accrual, and reporting that gets used.
Tax
Preparation, planning, entity choice, deductions, quarterly estimates and the IRS forms behind them.
CFO
Forecasting, cash flow, fundraising readiness and the executive roles founders confuse.
Payroll
Withholding, payroll taxes, W-2s and 1099s, and multi-state teams.
Metrics
The ratios and statements that tell you what is actually happening in the business.
Software
QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite and the tools that feed them.
Business Finance
Entity formation, banking, budgeting, funding and getting the finances in order.
Would You Rather We Just Did It?
Reading about reconciliation is useful. Not having to do it is better.