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The (Not Boring) Boring Small Business Bookkeeping and Accounting Podcast

Author: Paul Rosenblum | 25+ Years of Bookkeeping, Small Business Finances, and Tax Insights

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If you’re a small business owner or bookkeeper trying to make sense of bookkeeping, business finances, QuickBooks, cash flow, and tax-ready systems without drowning in accounting jargon, this podcast is for you.


Welcome to The Not Boring, Boring Bookkeeping and Small Business Podcast, where bookkeeping meets real business life. Beyond spreadsheets and expense tracking, our favorite Bookkeeping Mensch, Paul Rosenblum, explores the human side of small business finances and the relationships between bookkeepers, clients, accountants, and financial professionals that keep businesses running smoothly.


Paul is a New York-based bookkeeper with over 25 years of experience and decades teaching QuickBooks. In this podcast he shares practical bookkeeping tips, small business finance insights, tax deduction guidance, and real-world lessons from working with business owners every day. Whether you’re managing your own books, learning QuickBooks Online, or trying to build better financial systems for your business, you’ll find approachable, experience-based advice without the boring lecture style.


🎧 Listen to episodes like:

-Bookkeepers Are More Than Bean Counters

-How Communication Impacts Your Bookkeeping

-Plus hands-on tools like QuickBooks basics, startup expenses, and chart of accounts.

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Our favorite Bookkeeping Mensch, Paul Rosenblum, kicks off Season 11 with a brand-new project: a gelato shop that has never had a set of books. What should have been a routine first month in QuickBooks Desktop quickly turns into a mystery when the bank deposits and the point-of-sale reports refuse to match. Paul walks through how he tracked down what was really going on, why a charge that never shows up on a bank statement is a big red flag in his world, and what every business owner banking ...
In this short episode, our favorite Bookkeeping Mensch, Paul Rosenblum, starts with a follow-up to Season 9, Episode 8, the bookkeeper arrested for nonpayment of payroll taxes during COVID. The defense attorney says the shortfall came from COVID-19 staffing and oversight gaps starting in 2020, with no malicious intent or personal enrichment, and that the tax obligations are being resolved. The criminal case itself still hasn't been settled. Then Paul shares an unrelated story out of Illinois....
The big summer project is nearly done! Our favorite Bookkeeping Mensch, Paul Rosenblum, reports that the corporation is filed and the accountant is happy, but the related LLC still has to be filed by October 15, and it never had a set of books. Paul takes us through the last leg of the project. There are business and personal accounts full of mixed expenses, shared credit cards, a home office that may need splitting, mystery bank transfers, and shareholder loans that have to match across both...
The chart of accounts keeps popping up in business news feeds, so our favorite Bookkeeping Mensch, Paul Rosenblum, is taking a fresh look at it. Paul shares why he always designs it for the client, even if some accountants complain about all those subaccounts. Then Paul gets honest about write-ups, the simplest (and his least favorite) form of bookkeeping. He also answers a question he hears a lot: is there a standard chart of accounts? Want more on the chart of accounts? Check out Seas...
Kicking off the next 100 episodes, our favorite Bookkeeping Mensch, Paul Rosenblum, shares a cautionary tale about what happens when third-party software quietly works against you. A client's industry-specific CRM was secretly exporting her invoices into QuickBooks Online as sales receipts. That doubled her sales, threw off undeposited funds, and nearly meant she would pay extra 2026 taxes for no reason. Two three-hour cleanup sessions later, the books are fixed, but it raises a bigger questi...
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