The Financial Gibberish Workshop
Understand the accounting terms that actually matter in your business, and know exactly which financial professional you need for what. No accounting degree required.
Send Me the Workshop All four sessions hit your inbox immediately. Watch on your own schedule.You’ve nodded along on that call before
Your accountant rattles off “accruals” and “reconciliations.” You nod like you followed, then Google it all afterward. Or you’ve stared at a decision like do I need a CPA, a bookkeeper, or someone else entirely? and picked based on a guess.
Most business owners run the money side of their business this way. Not because they’re bad at business. Nobody ever taught them the vocabulary or who does what.
Meanwhile, the guessing costs real money: paying specialist rates for routine questions, hiring the wrong professional, or avoiding your numbers altogether because the language feels like a wall.
“I need a CPA” is usually the wrong answer
Most business owners assume a CPA is the default for every accounting question. That’s miseducation. CPAs are specialists: tax returns, audits, dealing with the IRS. Useful, but a narrow slice of what your business’s accounting actually involves. And you don’t want to pay CPA rates for questions a bookkeeper answers every day.
You don’t need an accounting degree to run the financial department of your business. You need to understand the main terms, what they mean for your business, and what each accounting professional actually does. That’s exactly what this workshop covers.
Four sessions, all pre-recorded
Sign up once and get immediate access to everything. Watch in order or jump straight to the one you need.
Your Financial Statements
What your profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statement are actually telling you, in plain English.
Bookkeepers
What a bookkeeper really does, when your business needs one, and what a good working relationship looks like.
Accountants
Where an accountant fits beyond tax season, and which questions are worth their rate.
CFOs
What a CFO does all day, and the point where a business your size actually needs one.
Why listen to me on this
I’m Clarissa, an accountant and financial strategist for online business owners. I spent six years as a government tax auditor and hold two master’s degrees in forensic accounting, so I’ve seen up close what happens when business owners don’t understand their own numbers.
My job now is making sure you do understand them, and that you hire the right help at the right price, without going back to school for it.
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