Welcome To Mid-April – Thanks To The FBC Time Machine

Now that the National Western Stock Show is over for another year, I’m sure you’re busy taking down your Christmas lights. That, after all, is the tradition ‘round these parts.

The other tradition this time of year is to procrastinate on things like bookkeeping and taxes. Luckily, this edition of Bean There, Done That arrives in your inbox JUST in time to remind you not to do that!

(In a positive, entertaining, and not-at-all scoldy kind of way.)

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Welcome To Mid-April
… Thanks To The FBC Time Machine!

Bean There, Done That
Monthly Bookkeeping Wisdom From Your Friendly Bean-Counter

We take you now to the secret laboratory of your Friendly Bean Counter (FBC), who spent the holidays creating the world’s first fully-operational time machine.

As far as you know.

Let’s go back one year, to the secret laboratory of YOUR business, where you’d spent the previous holiday season making loads of beans for your FBC to count. And now, in January of last year (2021), you realize you’re gonna have to get your bookkeeping info to your FBC at some point.

You gaze at the calendar, and note that, for your personal taxes, the deadline will be mid-April, which does not come as a particular shock to you. You might have your CPA file an extension, but you’re gonna have to get your books buttoned up by this important deadline.

So you put a note on your calendar to submit things to your FBC around, say, April 12, 2021.

When you gazed at the calendar, you may not have noted that there were business filing deadlines that fell earlier than that. So, as a result, both your FBC and your CPA were in a bit of a bind to help you.

Back to the time machine!

We whoosh ahead to last October (2021), when your CPA informs you of certain late fees and penalty payments you must make to The Tax Man, due to certain circumstances related to your faulty gaze at the calendar and poor assumptions about when certain things needed to get to certain professionals.

Let’s not stay there! That was a crummy day. It appears you’re sitting in the corner, looking very cranky, like someone just fed you a toad.

Let’s whoosh ahead to April, 2022!

What a satisfied, almost smug look you have on your face, knowing that your books were buttoned up and your taxes filed weeks ago.

Cheers!

So before we return to the present day,* if you want to plan to submit your bookkeeping info (receipts, revenue reports, inventory numbers, etc.) to your FBC right before the tax filing deadline, you could pretend that April day is already here… and do it now-ish!

Your future self will thank your present self, which will go a long way toward making your present self stop being mad at your past self.

(*I don’t know what day you’ll read this, so let’s just go with “today”)

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