Resources for You
Best Bookkeeping Software for Small Consulting Firms: A Guide to Making the Right Choice
Picture Alex, founder of a growing environmental consulting firm, comparing bookkeeping software options on her laptop. "I know I need something better than spreadsheets," she mutters, "but how do I choose between all these options?" Choosing the right bookkeeping...
5 Financial Admin Tasks Eating Up Your Time (and How to Fix Them)
The desk lamp casts a lonely glow across scattered receipts, expense reports and an inbox that’s even more cluttered. It's 9 PM, and instead of preparing tomorrow's client presentation, you're wrestling with reconciliations and other accounting items way beyond your...
The Hidden Costs of Poor Cash Flow Management in Consulting Businesses
Marcus checks his phone during a client meeting break, and his stomach tightens. There are three overdue invoice reminders from his contractors, two urgent messages from his office manager about upcoming payroll, and an email from his biggest client requesting a...
How Automation Saves Time for Consulting Firms
Your desk lamp casts a lonely glow as your inbox is scattered with receipts and expense reports. It's 9 PM, and instead of preparing tomorrow's client presentation, you're wrestling with reconciliations. Sound familiar? I spoke with Sarah, a management consultant who...
One Year at System Six
Over Labor Day weekend, as a busy summer came to a close for System Six and for Blair and me personally, I was lucky to have some quiet time to sit back and reflect on my first year at System Six. I realized what an exciting, challenging at times, and certainly...
System Six Retreat Recap!
Annual Retreat for Our Remote Team In late July, over 30 System Six team members and their partners gathered in Denver for several days of good old fun together! We all arrived on Friday at the beautiful Omni Interlocken Hotel, where the team spent the weekend...
Not outsourcing payroll? Here’s what you’re missing.
Modern payroll is complex, covering everything from taxes to benefits to managing a variety of employees and contractors. As your remote finance team, we employ a robust tech-stack of cloud-accounting tools to streamline these exact payroll processes for you. These...
3 Essential Rhythms for Resiliency
“Once upon a time, there were three little pigs…” You probably remember this well-known and oft-repeated story from childhood storybooks and cartoons. The three pigs each have a vision and mission - to build a house; a house resilient enough to weather the notorious...
Creating Scalable Processes
Imagine for a moment that you own a pizza restaurant and have employed a talented team of chefs - but you fail to give them a step-by-step, process-driven pizza recipe to follow. What kind of product would your restaurant be delivering to your clients? The fact is,...
How to Retain Your Team through the Great Resignation
Attracting great talent is a key strategy to building a resilient business. Retaining that talent is equally important. The Great Resignation has opened our eyes to the importance of creating environments where employees can thrive. People aren't only looking for...
Tips for Attracting Top Talent
The first pillar of building a resilient business is having a clear Strategy as defined in your mission, vision, and values. While you can have a stellar vision and business model, they are essentially worthless without the right people to come alongside you to make...
4 Steps to Crafting a Foundational Mission Statement
This past week, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink released his annual letter to investors. As a leader of one of the largest global investment firms, his words are powerful, poignant, and directive. He wrote, "It's never been more essential for CEOs to have a consistent voice,...
How to Build a Resilient Business
Whether you're a brand new start-up, still dreaming and working from your kitchen table, or a more established, multi-million-dollar company with years of experience under your belt, resiliency is a quality you need to grow a successful business. The Merriam-Webster...
Getting Ready for Year End: Charitable Giving
It’s a fact that close to a third of annual charitable giving happens in December and that nearly 12% of all giving happens in the last three days of the year. (Source: neonone.com.) December is THE month for charitable giving. As we enter the height of the holiday...
Getting Ready for Year End: Strategizing Q4 Revenue & Expenses
A good fourth quarter just might be the most important win of your business year, because it demonstrates that you know how to implement the right strategies to succeed when and where it counts. Reviewing this year’s financial records, as well as the goals you made at...
Getting Ready for Year End: 1099 Prep
Businesses employ independent contractors all the time, in multiple capacities. Perhaps you hired a freelance designer to create marketing materials for your business this year, or maybe you brought in an independent consultant to develop strategies to improve your...
Conference Takeaways
In October, I attended two different accounting conferences back-to-back - the first industry events we’ve been able to attend in the last 18 months! Meeting, networking and learning from so many great industry partners and experts was quite invigorating. Importantly,...
Getting Ready for Year End: Secure or Switch CPAs
One of our least favorite tasks is having to make changes in our critical professional relationships. Whether it's shopping around for a new dentist, doctor, or accountant, the search and subsequent transfer of years of paperwork and documentation can be overwhelming....
Getting Ready for the End of the Year: Personal Expenses
Is it just us, or does time seem to accelerate as we move into the fall season? It’s like the time between summer ending and the beginning of the holiday season turns into a busy blur, and before we know it, we find ourselves at the end of the year in a mad rush to...
The Accounting Leaders Podcast
Last month, System Six founder, Jeremy Allen, was featured as the inaugural guest for Accounting Leaders Podcast. Hosted by Karbon Founder & Director Stuart McLeod, the Accounting Leaders Podcast curates the best resources in the industry through conversations with accounting’s most significant innovators.
Catch Up & Clean Up for Mergers & Acquisitions
If you’ve ever gone through the process of selling a house, you probably know about that in-between season that lies between living normally in your house and handing the keys over to the new owner. It’s a season of cleaning up and making necessary improvements so that when you eventually do put your house on the market, it’s being presented in its absolute best light. The same is true for selling your business.
Are You Truly Ready to Sell Your Business?
Before you prepare your business to sell, be sure to ask yourself these 3 crucial questions.
Accurate Bookkeeping = Committed Stewardship
We believe good stewardship begins with trust. As a non-profit, your organization functions not just as a business but as a community venture.
How to Structure Accounting for Multiple Personal Properties
What you need to know about managing the finances for your growing real estate investments. Purchasing multiple properties can be an excellent investment path, allowing you to grow your assets while potentially making some extra income at the same time through...
How to Simplify Small Business Tax Prep
At Systems Six, we recognize that feelings of stress and being overwhelmed are commonplace for many small business owners during tax season, which is why we want to equip you with principles to simplify your tax prep. On a micro level, your taxes are impacted by daily...
A Tale of Two Financial Firms
It's storytime on the blog this week! Do either of these tales sound familiar to you? Flash Drives and Checkbooks The advisors at Neighborhood Financial were losing their minds and perhaps more alarmingly, their valuable time. It was the last Friday of the business...
A Church’s Guide to Simplifying Donor Giving Statements
At System Six, we understand how complicated it can be to provide accurate, accessible donor information to your congregants. We have put together this comprehensive guide to help you streamline your giving throughout the year so that statements can be processed, sent, and reconciled in moments – rather than weeks.
Essential Tools for Paperless Household Accounting
These cloud-based tools will build financial security and control for your growing personal wealth and daily household accounting needs.
5 Reasons Your Small Business Needs a Bookkeeper
You are one of your business’s most valuable assets. By delegating the bookkeeping to a professional team like System Six, you regain time, energy, money, and most importantly, the space to grow your business.
Basics of Outsourced Church Bookkeeping: Part 3
In a church, a budget is a plan for how to spend other people’s money and that plan should support the ministry goals and objectives of the church.
How to Build a Successful Budget
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” So, let’s prepare now for your future success with a strong budget. For business owners, having a budget for the New Year is an important part of financial preparation. But for some...
Tried and Tested Remote Working Tools
While some companies, like System Six, have been working remotely for years, we recognize that the shift to completely digital platforms and processes can be overwhelming and daunting.
Accounting for Mental Health Professionals
How do you know when it’s time to make the jump to forming a group practice? Many practitioners are impeded by not knowing where to start or wondering if the administrative time and the payroll cost might outweigh the profit.
Tips for an Effective Leadership Meeting
Let’s be honest,…. who actually loves meetings? Well, at SSB we really do! That’s because we’ve found a meeting cadence that works for our team. Check it out!
Basics of Outsourced Church Bookkeeping: Part 2
Learn how to organize your program spending from the beginning in order to simplify your bookkeeping at the end of the year.
Basics of Outsourced Church Bookkeeping: Part 1
Get the tips and tools to ensure that your church bookkeeping doesn’t detract from the ministry you’re passionate about!
