With the New Year quickly approaching, it is time to start preparing for the upcoming tax season and other accounting needs for 2018. While Accounting Girl focuses on accounting, payroll, and business management service...

Small businesses are the backbone of local economies and the organizations that face the most competition; which means they are also the most difficult to keep afloat.

According to the Small Business Association (SBA), a...

Whether you run a small office law firm or manage a larger legal corporation, law office management is essential to ensuring that the organization is effective for the sanity of its staff, the well-being of its clients,...

Building an Effective Relationship with Your Legal Accountant

As your law firm grows, you will likely need the consultation of a legal accountant to properly and efficiently maintain financial statements, outline each cl...

Accounting is a major part of your law firm. Each day you work with clients and their accounts to track more than the ins-and-outs of their cases; you are also in charge of continuously tracking the firm’s cash flow to...

Is Your Firm Ready for a Legal Accountant?

Sure, you’ve been running your law firm quite successfully for some time now, including mastering some of the legal accounting basics: the projection of gross receipts, overhead...

As a lawyer, you know that properly handling a client’s money is essential to staying in business. You may receive money early on, but you must effectively and efficiently work their case to be able to earn it all. This...

How competitive is your law firm in today’s market? Are you serving your clients in the best way possible? Is your law firm prepared to take on new roles as the market continues to fluctuate and evolve? These are the ty...

Which accounting method does your law firm use? There are two options when it comes to accounting methods: cash basis or accrual basis. The primary difference between these two methods is the point at which revenue is r...

You endured years of college, burned the midnight oil studying for exams, spent countless hours in the library, and had to pass Bar exams. You thought when you got through all of these things you were on your way to a l...