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267: Bookkeeping Things To Consider When Transitioning From Solo to Group Practice With Michael Spencer, BS, MA
267: Bookkeeping Things To Consider When Transitioning From Solo to Group Practice With Michael Spencer, BS, MA
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36 minutes
Released:
Feb 18, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
As a business owner, if you’re baffled by the world of bookkeeping, then today’s show will be helpful to you. Maybe you’re a solo practitioner considering starting a group practice, or perhaps you want to learn more about efficient financial systems and processes. Join us!
Our Featured Guest
Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer has an interesting career background as a CPA who became a licensed clinician in private practice. Recently, she started a bookkeeping practice to serve helpers and healers in the healthcare profession. Michael has a gentle presence that brings comfort and safety, and she brings a unique perspective as a therapist with an accounting background.
http://www.mspencerbooks.com/ (Website)
http://www.sellingthecouch.com/hushmail (Show Sponsor)
You’ll Learn:
● How Michael transitioned from being a CPA to becoming a LPC, then went on to coaching before starting a bookkeeping business on the side
● What’s involved in bookkeeping, which means tracking and recording all the financial transactions in a business
● How to understand your “numbers” and what they mean for your business
● Three financial tips in considering starting a group practice:
○ Take an honest but gentle assessment of your current bookkeeping system, relationship with finances, and business goals.
○ Have a bookkeeping system and some sort of payroll system or service.
○ Create monthly or weekly bookkeeping rituals to stay up-to-date and reliable.
● Why bookkeeping will become overwhelming and challenging if you try to “do it all” when you don’t enjoy it
● The importance of realizing where our strengths and weaknesses are found as business owners
● The need to develop and expand our business that meets needs and serves the world
Melvin:
Hey, Michael, welcome back to Selling the Couch.
Michael:
Oh, thank you so much, Melvin. It's great to be here.
Melvin:
I'm just one grateful for our friendship and two just for the privilege and honor to be able to see the ways that you have both grown as a person and as a business owner. You and I have gotten to know each other through the health casters community, and then through our mastermind community as well. And so I'm just so grateful for you.
Michael:
Yeah, thank you. And I'm really grateful for you, too. You've been a real constant over the past couple years as I've gone through all sorts of different changes professionally, so I really appreciate you.
Melvin:
You're so welcome. For folks that don't know you, you are a therapist, but you had a career prior to that. What was that career?
Michael:
Yeah. So right out of college, I was in accounting and auditing. I was a certified public accountant. My license is currently on inactive status. But I did hold that license from 2001 to 2008; and I did auditing of nonprofit organizations and governments, as well as some small business bookkeeping.
Melvin:
Nice. And then what happened in 2008?
Michael:
I guess it was a little bit earlier than that my license was still active and in 2006, 2007, I was just kind of becoming unfulfilled with that work. It wasn't really speaking to my soul and so I decided to go back to school for my Master's in mental health counseling. And I pursued that career, I loved that career, I was a licensed professional counselor and that license right now is also an on inactive status. And so I'm not currently practicing in the field.
And what happened there was I was doing a lot of trauma therapy, and eventually just became kind of burnout. And so then I transitioned into doing some coaching and really loved that as well. And then this year, no, we're in 2021. No in 2020, at the beginning of 2020, I started doing some... Support this podcast
Our Featured Guest
Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer has an interesting career background as a CPA who became a licensed clinician in private practice. Recently, she started a bookkeeping practice to serve helpers and healers in the healthcare profession. Michael has a gentle presence that brings comfort and safety, and she brings a unique perspective as a therapist with an accounting background.
http://www.mspencerbooks.com/ (Website)
http://www.sellingthecouch.com/hushmail (Show Sponsor)
You’ll Learn:
● How Michael transitioned from being a CPA to becoming a LPC, then went on to coaching before starting a bookkeeping business on the side
● What’s involved in bookkeeping, which means tracking and recording all the financial transactions in a business
● How to understand your “numbers” and what they mean for your business
● Three financial tips in considering starting a group practice:
○ Take an honest but gentle assessment of your current bookkeeping system, relationship with finances, and business goals.
○ Have a bookkeeping system and some sort of payroll system or service.
○ Create monthly or weekly bookkeeping rituals to stay up-to-date and reliable.
● Why bookkeeping will become overwhelming and challenging if you try to “do it all” when you don’t enjoy it
● The importance of realizing where our strengths and weaknesses are found as business owners
● The need to develop and expand our business that meets needs and serves the world
Melvin:
Hey, Michael, welcome back to Selling the Couch.
Michael:
Oh, thank you so much, Melvin. It's great to be here.
Melvin:
I'm just one grateful for our friendship and two just for the privilege and honor to be able to see the ways that you have both grown as a person and as a business owner. You and I have gotten to know each other through the health casters community, and then through our mastermind community as well. And so I'm just so grateful for you.
Michael:
Yeah, thank you. And I'm really grateful for you, too. You've been a real constant over the past couple years as I've gone through all sorts of different changes professionally, so I really appreciate you.
Melvin:
You're so welcome. For folks that don't know you, you are a therapist, but you had a career prior to that. What was that career?
Michael:
Yeah. So right out of college, I was in accounting and auditing. I was a certified public accountant. My license is currently on inactive status. But I did hold that license from 2001 to 2008; and I did auditing of nonprofit organizations and governments, as well as some small business bookkeeping.
Melvin:
Nice. And then what happened in 2008?
Michael:
I guess it was a little bit earlier than that my license was still active and in 2006, 2007, I was just kind of becoming unfulfilled with that work. It wasn't really speaking to my soul and so I decided to go back to school for my Master's in mental health counseling. And I pursued that career, I loved that career, I was a licensed professional counselor and that license right now is also an on inactive status. And so I'm not currently practicing in the field.
And what happened there was I was doing a lot of trauma therapy, and eventually just became kind of burnout. And so then I transitioned into doing some coaching and really loved that as well. And then this year, no, we're in 2021. No in 2020, at the beginning of 2020, I started doing some... Support this podcast
Released:
Feb 18, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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