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A new year is the ideal time to refresh your bookkeeping, set financial goals, and build stronger business systems. Explore practical steps to improve budgeting, tax readiness, and overall financial organization.

The holiday season can strain your business finances, but the right bookkeeping strategies can keep everything running smoothly. Discover how to manage expenses, protect cash flow, and stay ready for year-end tax preparation.

Many Colorado Springs hospitality owners manage their own books to save money—but DIY bookkeeping can quietly cost more in time, stress, and missed profit. Learn when it’s time to hand the books to a professional.

Turn your holiday sales data into a roadmap for the slow months ahead. Learn how Colorado Springs hospitality owners can use year-end reports to budget, forecast, and plan for a stronger 2026 with Barmann Bookkeeping.

As the year wraps up, most small business owners focus on closing out sales and taking a well-deserved break. But before the ball drops, there’s one last opportunity to make a financial move that could set your business up for a more profitable 2026.

The end of the year is the perfect time to take a hard look at your financials. Are your books neat, balanced, and tax-ready—or are they a bit on the “naughty” side? For many small business owners, especially in the hospitality world, bookkeeping tends to fall behind during busy months. That’s completely normal—but it’s also completely fixable.

The holidays bring in more customers—and with them, more employees, longer hours, and higher payroll demands. For small hospitality businesses, payroll can become one of the biggest end-of-year stressors.

The holidays bring a welcome surge in customers—but also a flood of receipts, invoices, and payroll changes. Without proper bookkeeping, those big December sales can lead to confusion, tax errors, or even penalties when spring rolls around.

The holiday season can make or break a small business—especially in hospitality. Between extended hours, increased sales, and additional staff, it’s easy for your books to fall behind. But closing out your year properly isn’t just a good habit—it can mean the difference between a smooth tax season and a stressful scramble.

Running a small business, especially in hospitality, means juggling a million tasks at once. From managing customers to keeping the...

October is the perfect time for small business owners to evaluate Q3 results and prepare for year-end. Learn how to use your financial data to make smarter decisions with Barmann Bookkeeping.

Don’t let your bookkeeping become a horror story! Learn about common accounting mistakes small hospitality businesses make—and how Barmann Bookkeeping can help fix them.

Fall is a busy season for many industries, especially in hospitality, retail, and events. With seasonal employees, tipped wages, and fluctuating schedules, payroll mistakes can quickly pile up. Here are five of the most common payroll errors I see in September and how you can avoid them.

As summer winds down and fall begins, September offers the perfect opportunity for business owners to step back and review their financials. With the fourth quarter right around the corner, this is your chance to make adjustments, prepare for year-end, and set yourself up for a smoother tax season.

Whether you're applying for a small business loan through a local Colorado bank or seeking a state-backed grant, one thing is always required: organized financial records. Many small businesses in Colorado Springs miss out on funding opportunities simply because their books aren’t lender-ready.

As backpacks fill up and school buses hit the road across Colorado—from Denver to Durango, Fort Collins to Colorado Springs—it’s not just students getting back into routine. Fall is a season of reset and refocus, making it the perfect time for Colorado entrepreneurs and small business owners to sharpen their financial pencils and get their books in order.

From HVAC techs and electricians to general contractors and plumbers, trade professionals in Colorado Springs are some of the busiest business owners around. But with complex invoicing, material costs, and labor tracking, bookkeeping in the trades is no easy task.

July is peak season in Colorado Springs. With festivals, tourism, and outdoor dining in full swing, many restaurants, hotels, event venues, and food trucks are running at full capacity — and that means lots of seasonal and part-time hires.

Big legislative changes are on the horizon — and if you own a restaurant in Colorado Springs, you’ll want to pay attention. The recently passed “Big Beautiful Bill” (officially HB24-1448) is making waves across Colorado. It introduces changes to how government agencies collect fees and may have long-term implications for local businesses — especially in hospitality. Let’s take a closer look at what this bill could mean for your restaurant, what you can do to stay ahead, and

Summer in Colorado brings sunshine, tourism, festivals—and for many small business owners, it’s the busiest (and most profitable) time of year. Whether you’re running a landscaping company, managing a farmers market booth, organizing events, or operating a local attraction, the warm months can put pressure on more than just your calendar. Your bookkeeping also needs to keep up.