588 – Bookkeeping Essentials with Jodi Arrant
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Bookkeeping essentials for small business with Jodi Arrant, including best practices, and the biggest mistakes to avoid in small-business bookkeeping.
Show Notes Page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/588-jody-arrant-bookkeeping-essentials/
This episode brings a practical deep dive into small-business bookkeeping with financial professional Jodi Arrant, who shares her journey, best practices, and the most common bookkeeping mistakes business owners make.
Henry and Jodi talk through essential topics like proper transaction categorization, the differences between Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet statements, and why regular bank reconciliation protects business owners from costly errors.
They also discuss key year-end tasks, including cleaning up uncategorized expenses, preparing for 1099s, and reviewing financial reports before tax time.
"Accurate coding and regular reconciliation are everything - your books simply can't be trusted without them," Jodi explains, offering practical advice for business owners who want cleaner books and clearer financial insights.
Jodi Arrant is the founder of J. Arrant Consulting, a bookkeeping and financial operations firm based in Eugene, Oregon. With over 17 years of experience in bookkeeping, payroll, and QuickBooks consulting, she helps small business owners gain clarity, confidence, and organization in their financial systems. Jodi specializes in simplifying bookkeeping for entrepreneurs so they can focus on growing their small businesses.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now, here is your host. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to this episode of The How With Business. This is Henry Lopez, and I'm looking forward to introducing all of you to |
| 0:21.2 | Jody Arendt. Jody is one of my new trusted service partners, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:27.0 | bookkeeping today because that's what she does with her business. So on this episode, we're diving |
| 0:30.8 | into one of the most important, but often relegated, and I'm guilty of that as well, one of the |
| 0:35.8 | most often important and relegated parts of any successful small businesses, and that's having well-managed, accurate and timely |
| 0:42.7 | financials, and it starts with bookkeeping. So I'm joined by an expert, an expert bookkeeper |
| 0:47.5 | and consultant, Jody Arrent, and together today on this episode, we're going to break down |
| 0:52.4 | common bookkeeping mistakes, some year-in |
| 0:54.8 | considerations, and I have a special announcement for a new bookkeeping service that I'm now making |
| 1:00.1 | available to all of you. |
| 1:01.9 | So we're going to chat about that as well as the services that Jody offers. |
| 1:05.5 | So we've got some special announcements here and share with you some tips and advice on bookkeeping |
| 1:10.6 | in general. |
| 1:11.3 | You can find all of the business resources, including the show notes page for this episode. |
| 1:15.1 | That's where you'll find links to Jody and links to this new bookkeeping service. |
| 1:19.6 | And also to learn more about my one-on-one and group coaching programs, just go to the how |
| 1:23.6 | woodbusiness.com. |
| 1:24.6 | I also invite you to consider supporting this podcast and joining our |
| 1:27.6 | business community on Patreon and subscribe wherever you might be listening so you don't miss any new |
| 1:32.6 | episodes. So let me tell you a little bit more about Jody. J. Arant is the founder of Jay |
| 1:38.8 | Arant's consulting, a bookkeeping and consulting firm based in Eugene Oregon. She has over 17 years of experience in |
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