Product Description

This book will help you start earning money in your OWN business with the wealth of information it provides. It includes steps to start your own business (and estimated start up costs); how to define your services and set billing rates (includes average billing rates); how to improve your knowledge and experience; obtain new clients and effective marketing ideas; details about websites, client engagements, market opportunities, growing the business, and MUCH more. The book includes results of a national survey of QuickBooks ProAdvisors about their annual income, use of engagement letters, over 300 comments and advice on things they wish they had known sooner or done differently, their KEYS to SUCCESS and more! Bookkeepers, accountants, tax preparers, and consultants will all find beneficial information in the book. With your own business, you can decide what hours you want to work, services to provide, and work from home if you choose! This book will help you SUCCEED!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41677 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-13
• Released on: 2007-10-13
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

From the Author
* Thinking about starting your own consulting business?
* Need ideas to help grow your business?
* Not sure how to get clients or what rates to charge?
* Want advice from other top consultants?

If so, then Successful QuickBooks Consulting is for you! After owning my own traditional accounting practice for about five years, I realized I did not really enjoy the work I was performing. I went back to school and earned an MBA in Entrepreneurship. Now, I am the owner of M. Long Consulting, LLC. Speaking, training, consulting, and writing are now my focus, and I could not be happier!!! I have been able to be my own boss, set my own work hours, and select the clients and type of services I want to provide. Most importantly, I have been home with my children while they are growing up! It is my hope that I can help share my knowledge to help others achieve the same in their lives! I truly enjoy helping others start and grow their own business as well as helping small and growing businesses to utilize QuickBooks to manage their business with good financial information.

Alison Ball, Sr. Manager, Accountant Training Network, Intuit, Inc.

"Michelle Long has created a very comprehensive guide for anyone considering starting a QuickBooks Consulting business. Her use of real-life examples and the fact that she has used her own experiences along with those of other leading QuickBooks Consultants is very compelling."

Cheri Streeter, MBA and Small Business Development Center Director, Overland Park, KS

"Sharing best practices is what Michelle Long does best -- whether it's teaching QuickBooks in the classroom or sharing her tips in this book. The best part is: Michelle actually practices what she preaches -- in her own consulting business. Michelle's guide is full of practical how-to's and is the perfect first step for anyone contemplating starting a QuickBooks consulting business."

About the Author
Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA is the owner of M. Long Consulting, LLC, which provides QuickBooks consulting and training, business planning and financial consulting to growing businesses and entrepreneurs. She is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, a member of the Certified Trainer Network for Intuit, and a member of the Intuit Accountants Speakers Bureau. She facilitates seminars nationally for Intuit's Accountant Training Network and has presented a webinar for Intuit. Michelle also conducts a variety of seminars for entrepreneurs and small business owners for both the Missouri and Kansas Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) as well as serves as guest speaker for many non-profit organizations. For the past eight years, she has taught hands-on QuickBooks seminars for local SBDCs including Introduction to QuickBooks, QuickBooks for Contractors, Intermediate QuickBooks, QuickBooks Point of Sale, and QuickBooks Payroll.

Michelle was named a Small Business Administration's Financial Services Champion of the Year for 2007 in recognition of her dedication to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Michelle is a Certified FastTrac Facilitator and has facilitated the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's FastTrac NewVenture program and Listening to Your Business workshop. She is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Johnson County Community College and at UMKC in Strategic Management and previously Accounting Systems & Controls.

Before starting her own consulting practice, Michelle worked for Price Waterhouse, an international public accounting firm; Baird, Kurtz & Dobson, a regional public accounting firm; and Hallmark Cards, Inc. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy degree from University of Missouri-Columbia, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from UMKC. She passed the CPA on her first attempt.

She is the author of Successful QuickBooks Consulting: The Comprehensive Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business, co-author of Strategic Management: An Applied Approach, and has written numerous articles for the Kansas City Small Business Monthly.