Deposit

[jec]

Thanks for the advice ladies

I laughed when I saw the size of your post Reggio but I see where your coming from. We don't live in credit debt and don't live beyond our means as we were once there and thankfully got out before we got in way over our heads. We are in a good place now as I have young children to put first but starting up my business I guess I could have put the money in savings and done without a few things for sure.
I think after reading so many having problems with families leaving and not paying..moving foward I think I will change it to last weeks of daycare. Would you share your spreadsheet? Sounds like something I could use and or direct me where you got it (paid for it?)

[Inspired by Reggio]

.... Would you share your spreadsheet? Sounds like something I could use and or direct me where you got it (paid for it?)

Just an Excel file I created on the computer ~ nothing fancy opened an Excel file saved as Income 2012 and than inside there each client has a worksheet page within the file just the client info on the top of the page including start date, security payment paid, cheque number of SD and a spot for 'applied on' so I know when I apply it to care as well as if they are on option A fee plan or B fee plan and who they want their 'receipts' made to at the end of the year so I do not have to 'look it up' in their paper file late. Than the rest of the page in 'columns' with the headings of Billing Date, Care beginning and ending on, Amount Billed, Amount Received, Cash / Cheque #, Special Notes .... I than used the 'equations' option to make the amount billed and amount received columns tally for me so that it does the math form me and than both columns also auto sum for me at the bottom to give the the total billed and total paid so that at tax time I can just looks at it and right a receipt for the 'total paid' without having to do more math ~ I HATE math

When the next 'business year' starts I open that file and click it 'save as' and change it to create a new file of Income 2013 and than just delete clients worksheets who are not gone and the ones who 'remained' I just remove the previous billing and receiving but than I do not have to 'retype' all the top page information again ~ it carries over for me.