Legal-ease For Entrepreneurs: Empowering Creatives About The Legal Aspects Of Running A Business

Janet LeBlanc, the founder Paper + Spark, offers easy online bookkeeping solutions to makers and creative entrepreneurs.  Janet, a certified public accountant, also makes jewelry and stationary products that she sells on Etsy.  Once her follow Etsy store owners found out she was an accountant, they started reaching out for bookkeeping and accounting tips.   Seeing a void, Janet created her first iteration of the Etsy Seller Spreadsheet, 2015.  Her goal was to help creative entrepreneurs become more confident and less confused about the financial side of running a business.  Janet's spreadsheets and bookkeeping solutions are made specifically for entrepreneurs who don't have the budget to hire a bookkeeper but still need a comprehensive accounting and bookkeeping solution. In this episode, we talk about the four common mistakes new entrepreneurs make when it comes to the tax and accounting of their business and we walk through how Janet's spreadsheets help to fix all of those mistakes.  Janet's spreadsheets in