With spring finally here, you may be thinking of spring-cleaning your home. I certainly am – there’s something about the warmer weather that almost compels me to clean away winter’s dull energy. This got me thinking about the benefits of spring cleaning your business. And who better to draw inspiration from than the Queen of Tidying, Marie Kondo?

Have you noticed over the past few years that when you ask someone how they are, the standard response is “busy.” Busy seems to be our new normal state of being. Most people are okay with short bursts of busy, but when busy is our usual state it grinds us down to a tired, depleted state of being overwhelmed where we feel that life is running out of control.

One of the things we love to do at Accounting Heart is to champion financial confidence and one of the ways we do this is by having quarterly catchups to talk all things numbers…profit & loss, balance sheet, break-even, budgets, cashflow, long term forecasts, tax etc. Sounds like fun, I know ?. In recently preparing for one of these catchups I opened up our client’s Xero file to find a very different set of numbers to what I was expecting, and the colour drained from my face.

I am yet to meet anyone, other than an accountant, who gets excited about tax time. With a fear of a tax bill, a loathing of paperwork and complex web of tax law to navigate it is no wonder most people find it a bit overwhelming, but with our savvy tips tax time will be a breeze!

Up until the time I left home for university I played loads of sport and was rather skinny. From then until I was 25 I kept my slender figure, but was starting to feel the effects of spending too much time sitting at a desk in the form of neck and shoulder pain. From 25 to my early 30’s it was all down hill. I had put on a lot of weight, was in chronic pain and couldn’t even walk up a short steep hill without stopping for breath. Crunch time when my husband and I were watching Season 2 of The Biggest Loser. After watching this we made a conscious decision that we wanted to live a healthier life, so we booked ourselves in for a 7-day health retreat that changed our lives.

The super gender gap. The ‘glass ceiling’. No doubt you’ve heard of them – the media often reminds us of the fact women are not earning equal pay for equal work. It’s also a fact that women generally take more time off from full or part-time work to care for children or elderly parents. It all adds up to a financial future that’s anything but certain. As a result, we women need to be super savvy in how we handle our finances.