089: Financial Reporting in Your Law Firm with Amanda Aguillard

How would your best accountant friend recommend you streamline your law firm's management of bookkeeping, accounting, and general finances? Listen & find out...

Show Notes

Amanda Aguillard has been a Certified Public Accountant since 2001. She holds a Masters Degree in Taxation from the University of Denver, and loves helping small law firms (and other small businesses) improve their financial data handling and accounting (especially by harnessing useful technologies).

Aguillard Accounting - Amanda’s main business website Amanda’s Training Service for accountants and bookkeepers Xero; - online accounting service recommended by Amanda Quickbooks online - online accounting service by Intuit Zapier; - connect cloud services and create mind-blowing automations MileIQ; - automated vehicle mileage tracking app HubDoc; - automatically imports financial data to Quickbooks, Xero and Box (now owned by Xero)

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