What I am is someone who makes tutorials

I’ve spent years making how-to videos, mostly about technology, for people who don’t want a lecture — they want the thing fixed. Somewhere along the way it struck me that bookkeeping software has the worst version of this problem.

QuickBooks is powerful, it’s everywhere, and it’s built by accountants for people who already think like accountants. If that isn’t you, you end up clicking things and hoping.

So Run Your Books is simple. Short videos. Real screens. Where to click, and why it matters — because in bookkeeping the “why” is usually the part that costs you money when you get it wrong.

What you’ll find here

Tutorials on the everyday stuff: invoicing, categorizing transactions, fixing what you got wrong last month. Most are under five minutes. All of them assume you’ve got a business to run and would rather be running it.

Every video has a matching written guide on this site, with the steps laid out so you can follow along without scrubbing back and forth.

What you won’t find

• Tax advice, or opinions on what you should deduct.
• Jargon that exists to sound authoritative rather than to explain something.
• Twenty minutes of preamble before the first useful sentence.
• Any pretence that I’m something I’m not.