Learn bookkeeping from scratch and be ready for your first client in 6 weeks
A step-by-step guide for UK beginners, with a worked example, cheat-sheets and templates, plus a free bonus guide on how to find clients on Instagram and Facebook.
- No qualifications or maths skills needed to start learning
- Clear steps you can follow with your own laptop
- Covers VAT, Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital
- Bonus: scripts, proposals and contract templates
You want a flexible income, but where do you start?
Every small business needs its records kept tidy, and most owners dread it. That is the gap you can fill, from home, around your own life.
- 1You want to work flexibly, but have no idea which skill to learn.
- 2Bookkeeping sounds technical and you do not have a degree.
- 3You are not sure how to find your first paying client.
- 4Making Tax Digital is in the news and you want to be ready.
Everything in one clear path
Twelve chapters, each ending with a short action, so you always know what to do next.
Bookkeeping from zero
Income, expenses, assets and the two-sided idea behind every transaction, in plain English. No maths degree needed.
Software and bank feeds
Set up cloud accounting, connect a bank and build a clean chart of accounts that makes reports readable.
Categorise and reconcile
The exact monthly routine: categorise, attach receipts, reconcile to the penny and send a summary the client understands.
Invoices and getting paid
Raise professional invoices, record bills and credit notes, and chase late payers without awkwardness.
VAT, Self Assessment and MTD
Thresholds, schemes, deadlines and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, so you can keep clients on track.
A full worked month
Follow a real-looking small business from raw bank statement to finished profit and loss and balance sheet.
Six weeks, about an hour a day
A simple weekly structure takes you from beginner to ready for clients.
The language of money
Income, costs, assets, liabilities and double entry made simple.
Set up your business
Register, get supervised, insure and open your business account.
Tools and onboarding
Software, bank feeds, chart of accounts and a client checklist.
Routine and case study
Categorise, reconcile and report on a complete month.
VAT, tax and MTD
Know every deadline and what triggers it.
Pricing and launch
Packages, engagement letter and your first outreach.
Real pages, real examples
Clean illustrations, worked numbers and ready-to-use templates throughout.
Professional invoices, step by step
Profit and loss from a real month
VAT schemes and the nine boxes
Price and package your services
Your first local Facebook ad
Engagement letter templateFind Your First Clients
Learning the skill is half the job. This guide shows you where clients are and exactly what to say.
- Pick a niche that needs bookkeepers right now
- Set up Instagram and Facebook that turn visitors into enquiries
- Run a small local Facebook ad, step by step
- Copy-and-send message scripts and follow-ups
- Discovery call, proposal and engagement letter templates
- A 30-day plan to sign your first clients
Start learning today
- I Can Be A Bookkeeper: the complete 58-page guide
- Find Your First Clients: the 37-page bonus
- Worked month, cheat-sheets and 6-week plan
- Scripts, proposal and contract templates
- Instant download after payment
Good to know
Do I need qualifications or experience?
No. The guide starts from zero and is written in plain English. You do not need a degree or any maths skills to learn the bookkeeping side and start helping small businesses with it.
How do I get the guides?
Immediately after payment you are taken to a download page with both PDFs. Stripe also emails you a receipt.
Is this only for the UK?
It is written for the UK: HMRC, VAT, Self Assessment, Making Tax Digital and prices in pounds. The bookkeeping fundamentals apply anywhere.
Which accounting software does it use?
The method works in any cloud accounting software. The guide compares the three most used by UK small businesses and shows you how to set one up.
What is in the bonus guide?
Find Your First Clients: how to choose a niche, build an Instagram and Facebook presence, run a small local Facebook ad, message prospects, run a discovery call, send a proposal and use a ready-made engagement letter.
What devices can I read it on?
Any phone, tablet or computer that opens PDF files. The pages are designed to be easy to read on a screen or to print.
Your first client could be six weeks away
Learn the skill, then go and find the work. Both guides, one price.
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