WNM 2025 Basic Bookkeeping for Crafters and Artisans

As hand makers, the administrative part of the business is probably your least favorite. It is common to start guessing at numbers of costs and inventory quantities when you aren’t organized and monitoring your finances for your business. This leads to you having no idea what is going on in your business. Without this accurate data, you won’t understand what works, what doesn’t work, or if it’s working at all. As well as leaving your financial state in shambles. This is why understanding how to start bookkeeping for craft businesses is so important.

As you start to build your craft business, it becomes increasingly important to keep good records of your sales and expenses. Not only will having a more organized inventory make it much easier to fill out your forms when tax time rolls around, it will also give you a much better idea about how your business is fairing cashflow wise, the profits you are making and the rate at which your handmade business is growing.

In this class you will learn the following:

• Basic Bookkeeping Processes
• What is a sole proprietor vs an LLC?
• Record Keeping
• Budgeting
• Basic components of bookkeeping

Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities and language assistance services are available for limited English proficient individuals. Please notify Janelle Henry at 505-566-3715 or jhenry@wesst.org when you register for the class, or no later than 24 hours prior to your class, so that WESST can make sure necessary accommodations are available. All programs and services are provided to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

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