Cash Cow Accounting

10/13/2026

🐄 Cow Tip Tuesday: Not Every Deposit Is Income

Money entered the business bank account—but that doesn’t automatically make it revenue.

A deposit might actually be:

• Money the owner contributed
• Loan proceeds
• A transfer between business accounts
• A refund or reimbursement
• Payment on an invoice already recorded

Categorizing every deposit as sales can overstate your income and make your financial reports misleading.

The amount matters—but so does where it came from. 📊

Clean books = a calm mind.

10/10/2026

🎃 **Saturday Spotlight: Cedarburg Creek Farm**

If your perfect fall Saturday begins with pumpkins and ends with screaming, Cedarburg Creek Farm has you covered!

Stop by during the day for the pumpkin patch, corn maze, petting zoo, and free hay wagon rides. Then, after dark, climb aboard **The Haunted Swamp** hayride for a family-friendly fright. 👻

📅 Saturday, October 10
🎃 Farm hours: 10 AM–6 PM
👻 Haunted Swamp: 7–10 PM
🎟 Haunted hayride: $12 per person, plus tax
📍 649 Highway 60, Cedarburg

Because your weekend can be scary—but your books shouldn’t be. 😉🐄

Learn more: https://www.cedarburgcreekfarm.com/

10/08/2026

We laugh because we’ve all seen it—but a good client relationship shouldn’t feel like a battle. 😄

At Cash Cow Accounting, we believe in fair, transparent pricing and clear expectations from the start. We’re also available when our clients have questions, need clarification, or want help understanding their numbers.

If a request falls outside the original scope, we’ll discuss the options and pricing before moving forward—no surprises, no disappearing acts.

Good bookkeeping is built on good communication. 🐄📊

10/06/2026

🐄 **Cow Tip Tuesday: A Bank Feed Is Not Bookkeeping**

Connecting your bank account to accounting software is a great start—but the software is only bringing in the transactions. It doesn’t necessarily know:

• What each purchase was for
• Whether it belongs to the business
• Which category is correct
• Whether a transaction was duplicated
• Whether anything is missing

Bank feeds collect the information. Proper bookkeeping reviews, categorizes, matches, and reconciles it.

Automation helps—but your books still need a human who knows what they’re looking at. 📊

**Clean books = a calm mind.**

Send a message to learn more

10/03/2026

👻 If you’re looking for a scare this weekend, let the professionals handle it—not your bookkeeping.

Missing receipts, unreconciled accounts, and mysterious transactions shouldn’t be the scariest things you encounter this fall. Save the screams for Terror on Rural Street, opening this weekend in Hartford!

📅 Saturday, October 3
🚪 Doors open at 7:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets sold from 6:30–10:30 PM, or until capacity
📍 147 N. Rural Street, Hartford
💵 $15 General Admission | $30 Fast Pass
⚠️ Recommended for ages 13+

Even better, Terror on Rural Street is operated by Hartford Community Service Inc., with proceeds supporting Hartford and the surrounding communities.

Keep your books clean—and get your scares somewhere more fun. 🎃🐄

09/29/2026

🐄 Cow Tip Tuesday: A Matching Bank Balance Doesn’t Always Mean Your Books Are Correct

Your bookkeeping software shows the same balance as your bank account. Everything must be accurate…right?

Not necessarily!

Two balances can match even when transactions are:

* Duplicated
* Missing
* Categorized incorrectly
* Recorded for the wrong amount
* Assigned to the wrong account

A proper bank reconciliation compares the transactions in your books with the transactions on the bank statement. It also accounts for timing differences, such as outstanding checks and deposits that haven’t cleared yet.

Matching balances are reassuring—but reconciliation is what confirms that the activity behind those balances is complete and accurate.

Don’t just check the ending number. Make sure the path getting there is correct, too. 🐄📊

09/22/2026

🐄 Cow Tip Tuesday: A Loan Payment Is Not Entirely an Expense

Your business makes a $500 loan payment. That means the business has a $500 expense…right?

Not quite!

A loan payment is usually divided into two parts:

💰 Principal reduces the amount your business owes. It is not an expense.

📉 Interest is the cost of borrowing the money and is generally recorded as an expense.

For example, if a $500 payment includes $400 of principal and $100 of interest, only the $100 appears as an interest expense. The other $400 reduces the loan balance on your balance sheet.

Recording the entire payment as an expense understates your profit and leaves the loan balance in your books incorrect.

The reverse is also important: Receiving loan proceeds generally doesn’t count as business income—it creates a debt that must be repaid.

Your bank account shows that money moved. Your books should show why it moved. 🐄📊

09/19/2026

🎃 **Pumpkin Fest is officially back at Basse’s!**

Pumpin season has arrived at Basse’s Taste of Country—and Saturday includes more than 65 fall attractions plus the high-flying **Farmer Ninja Experience!**

Explore the pumpkin patch, conquer two corn mazes, take a wagon ride, visit the animals, watch the pig races and dog shows, and enjoy plenty of slides, games, food, and fall fun.

📅 Saturday, September 19
⏰ 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
🥷 Farmer Ninja shows: 11:45 AM, 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
📍 3190 County Road Q, Colgate
🎟️ September weekend admission: $17.99 plus tax

Last admission is at 5:00 PM. Basse’s is cashless, so bring a credit card, debit card, or mobile payment method.

Kick off fall with a full day of local farm fun! 🍂🐄

**Check their site to confirm all details!

09/17/2026

Accounting **uses** math—but it isn’t math. 🤯

A calculator can tell you that 2 + 2 = 4. It can’t tell you whether that $4 is income, an expense, an asset, a liability, or an owner’s draw.

That’s where the accounting comes in. 🐄📊

09/15/2026

🐄 **Cow Tip Tuesday: A Credit-Card Payment Is Not a Second Expense**

You purchase $500 of business supplies with your credit card.

The $500 expense is generally recorded when you make the purchase, along with the amount you now owe the credit-card company.

Later, when you pay the credit-card bill, you are not creating another $500 expense. You are simply moving money from your bank account to pay down that balance.

If both the purchase **and** the card payment are categorized as expenses, your books could show $1,000 of expenses—even though you only spent $500. 😬

Credit-card interest and fees may be separate business expenses, but the payment toward your existing balance is not.

This is one of those small bookkeeping mistakes that can seriously distort your profit and financial reports.

Record the purchase. Pay down the balance. Don’t count the expense twice. 🐄📊