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Hosted by Donna Harris · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 161 episodes
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How do you use bookkeeping and accounting to grow your business? Are your reports such that you have no idea what they mean? When you need to crunch numbers, do you die a little inside? This podcast is meant to help entrepreneurs become powerful business leaders. We believe that excellence and entrepreneurship is the ultimate rebellion.
Donna Harris hosts Bookkeeping Made Simple, a business show with 161 episodes published.
The profit and loss statement is the most important financial document in your business. Most business owners either skim it, misread it, or avoid it entirely — because nobody ever explained what it actually says. In thi
A buyer doesn't pay for your revenue. They don't pay for your reputation or your vision. They pay for what they can verify — from your books. In this solo episode of Books & Backbone, Donna Harris breaks down exactly how
The Qualified Business Income deduction allows S-Corp owners, LLC owners, and other pass-through business owners to deduct up to 20% of their qualified business income from their taxable income. It's been available since
Your highest-revenue client might be your least profitable one. Not because something went wrong. Because revenue and margin are not the same thing — and the indirect costs of serving a demanding, slow-paying, scope-cree
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It's the most significant small business tax legislation in nearly a decade. And most small business owners still don't know what's in it or what decisi
Most business owners avoid the collections conversation. Not because they don't care about getting paid — because the conversation feels risky. What if it damages the relationship? What if the client is going through som
Financial literacy doesn't mean knowing accounting. For a small business owner, it means something much more specific — and much more achievable. It's the ability to read your own numbers and act on what they tell you. N
Checking your bank balance is not a cash flow strategy. It tells you where you are. It tells you nothing about where you're going. In this solo episode of Books & Backbone, Donna Harris gives you the tool that replaces t
Profitable businesses run out of cash every day. Not struggling businesses. Profitable ones — with real clients, real revenue, real margins — that find themselves staring at a bank balance that doesn't match the success
Most business owners are operators. They show up, execute, and repeat. And there's nothing wrong with that — until the day they want to scale, step back, or sell. Because what an operator builds isn't a transferable busi
Neil Juneja was in the room when cannabis was first legalized in Washington State. As founder and managing partner of Gleam Law, Neil represented the first cannabis licensees in Washington, was featured in Newsweek and T
July is done. Here's what it actually taught me. In this reflective solo episode, Donna Harris opens August by looking back at July — what landed, what surprised her, and what she's still thinking about. The $40K loan no
July was about freedom. This episode is about what you build on it. In the month-closing episode of Books & Backbone, Donna Harris walks through the five specific markers of a business that is actually built to last — no
Neil Juneja was in the room when cannabis was first legalized in Washington State. As founder and managing partner of Gleam Law, Neil represented the first cannabis licensees in Washington, was featured in Newsweek and T
Gaena Lu has been making almond milk for 13 years. It started with lactose intolerance and a holistic culinary school in Berkeley. It went through three rebrandings, a seven-day shelf life that made logistics nearly impo
Most bookkeepers send a PDF and disappear. They categorize the transactions, reconcile the accounts, produce the reports, and deliver the file. Accurate. Compliant. And almost completely useless for actually running your
Loren DeFalco didn't set out to run a cannabinoid-focused hedge fund. He set out to stop having seizures. After waking up in an ambulance at LaGuardia Airport in 2009, Loren spent years researching what conventional medi
If your accountant congratulated you on your tax refund — find a new accountant. A tax refund isn't found money. It's your own money, returned to you without interest, after the IRS held it for months while you could hav
She mentioned it in passing. One sentence, somewhere in the middle of a quarterly review call. Casual. Like it wasn't important. "Oh, and my partner took out a $40,000 loan against the business last year." Donna Harris w
What does a court-appointed receiver see when he walks into a company that's about to go under? Robert Stevens has done it over 30 times. As president of Somerset Capital, Rob steps in when companies are in crisis — repl
Donna Harris
Founder and CEO · Bookkeeping Made Simple
1 appearance on this show
Guy Rocourt
co-founder and CEO · Guy Rocourt Consulting
1 appearance on this show
Neil Juneja
Gleam Law
2 appearances on this show
Loren DeFalco
CB1 Capital
1 appearance on this show
Robert Stevens
Somerset Capital
1 appearance on this show
June Johnson
Collective High
1 appearance on this show
Sean Ford
Dr. Fossum's Pet Care
1 appearance on this show
David Pittman
ICI Bioscience
1 appearance on this show
Al Welch
Welch Insurance Partners
1 appearance on this show
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Bookkeeping Made Simple is hosted by Donna Harris. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 161 episodes.
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