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5 Ways to ‘Get Better Every Day’
Don’t Let This Tiny Distraction Destroy Your Productivity Happy 3-Year Workiversary, Rosie!
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Making the Right Call Client Review
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Meet the Pac Man of Accounting
THE PAC MAN OF ACCOUNTING Meet Our Virtual Bookkeepers, Pencil Inc.
Laura Allen, founder of the virtual bookkeeping service Pencil Inc., has accounting in her blood.
Inspired, Laura created a cloud-based accounting system for her clients that integrates software like QuickBooks Online and Xero with apps for tasks like inventory management, project management, and data storage. Her team helps small-business owners combine all of those pieces and map their data flows. Almost everything is automated and done virtually. They even offer tax services! “These systems help [small businesses] work more efficiently and, oftentimes, increase their bottom line because of the cost, time, and resource savings,” Laura says, adding, “... We’re kind of like Pac Man: We absorb all of the work and bring it in-house.” After working with Pencil Inc. for the last few years, we can vouch for that! Russell actually has an accounting degree and planned to become a CPA if law school didn’t work out, but even with that
“My dad is a CPA, and he’s actually my business partner. My mom is a bookkeeper, and that’s how they met in Odessa, Texas, 40 years ago. She delivered a set of books to his accounting firm. It’s in the genes,” Laura says. Laura fell in love with the process of helping small businesses when she took a job at her dad’s CPA firm after college. In 2008, she opened Pencil Inc. It didn’t take long for her to notice that the enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions that help big businesses manage their processes and finances were too expensive and complex for smaller companies. So, she started looking for a solution.
background, keeping up with BLF’s books was hard work.
“When I got going on the firm, I did all of the financing and accounting myself, but after a certain point, it became enormously time consuming,” Russell admits. “Working with Laura has given me more time to do the things I really need to be doing. Now I’m working more effectively, and our firm is performing at a higher level.” If you run a small business and want to give Pencil Inc. a try, visit them online at Pencilinc.co or email Laura’s staff at Connect@Pencil.Team.
“Being a millennial, I’m always thinking, ‘There must be an app for that!’” Laura says.
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