Brian R. Schobel, CPA
BRS CPA Blog
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Feb 15
Understanding Your Chart of Accounts
Before you can start recording any financial transactions, you’ll need to create a chart of accounts for your company. This is the...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Feb 8
Choosing Your Business Structure in 2022
If you are thinking about opening a business in 2022 the first thing to do on the list is choosing a business structure. Since everything...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Oct 28, 2021
Work life Balance
Balance is a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions. As a business owner and as humans, it is...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Oct 14, 2021
Self-Discipline
Self-control, an aspect of inhibitory control, is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behavior in the face of...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Oct 8, 2021
How to build trust in a relationship
Often when I meet with a prospect the issue of trust comes into the conversation. It is a difficult topic to discuss. When someone asks...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Sep 30, 2021
Dream boards
What is a dream board or vision board? It is a board, physical, digital, large, or small, depicted through words and or pictures, that...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Sep 24, 2021
Restorative Rest
An extremely important component to operating a small business is getting enough restorative rest. Without rest, most processes become...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Sep 16, 2021
Why write a business plan?
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Ben Franklin The second thought that comes to mind when preparing a business plan for me...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Sep 9, 2021
Virginia State Sales & Use Tax
There might be a good chance your business should be collecting sales and use taxes. All sales, leases, and rentals of tangible personal...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Sep 2, 2021
Business Insurance
One of the many tasks we complete when taking on a new bookkeeping client is making sure they have proper insurance coverage. Not having...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Aug 27, 2021
Create a system
Systems can be simple such as writing and posting to your blog each week. Or they can be complex like those found in your automobile. New...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Aug 18, 2021
Important Nonprofit Compliance Requirements
Nonprofit Form 990 Filing Requirements Organizations with annual revenue of $50,000 or more and required to file as an exempt...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Jul 29, 2021
What do you do best?
Become the best at one thing before expanding into other areas of expertise. We all have special talents. Hopefully you are passionate...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Jul 15, 2021
Bookkeeper
What English word has three consecutive double letters? Bookkeeping or Bookkeeper Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Jul 8, 2021
Financial Statements
Our primary objective with taking on any new bookkeeping client is producing financial statements. The two most important are the balance...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Jul 2, 2021
Outsourcing for growth!
Outsourcing is the act of gathering human resources to work for your company on a contract basis. Often people think of a customer...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Jun 24, 2021
Digital Accounting. What is digital accounting?
Digital accounting is what we do! It is the creation, representation, and transfer of financial information in electronic format. Paper...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Jun 9, 2021
Continue Networking to Grow Your Business
The purpose of network marketing is to explain to as many people the product you sell. You hope as you explain to the person sitting...
Brian R. Schobel, CPA
- Jun 2, 2021
Networking to Grow Your Business
Starting a new business requires you as the owner to establish some level of salesmanship. A great way to learn sales skills is to join a...