Balance Sheet Terms
Clearing Account: How Payment Processor Deposits Tie Back to Sales
A clearing account holds sales and fees until the processor payout lands and nets it to zero. See how it works with a real Stripe deposit example.
5 min
Current work
SDO CPA LLC
Experience
18 years of experience
Bobby Huang is a partner at SDO CPA. 18 years of hands-on bookkeeping. He still reconciles real client books and built Growthy from the same review-and-approve work bookkeepers do each week.
Published Articles
Clearing Account: How Payment Processor Deposits Tie Back to Sales
Tie-Out: What It Means to Tie the Books Out to $0.00
Bookkeeping Foundation Terms
Tie-Out: What It Means to Tie the Books Out to $0.00
Tying out means proving bank, credit card, AR, and AP totals match an outside source with a $0.00 difference. The four standard tie-outs and what to check.
4 min
Suspense Account: Where Unknown Transactions Wait Until Close
Balance Sheet Terms
Suspense Account: Where Unknown Transactions Wait Until Close
A suspense account holds unidentified transactions until you know where they belong. See a journal-entry example and why it must be zero before close.
5 min
Bank Feed: What It Is and Why Clearing It Is the Whole Job
Bookkeeping Foundation Terms
Bank Feed: What It Is and Why Clearing It Is the Whole Job
A bank feed automatically imports bank and card transactions for categorization and matching. Learn the three states of a fed transaction and why feeds break.
4 min
Claude Bookkeeping Skill: What It Can and Cannot Do
AI for Accountants
Claude Bookkeeping Skill: What It Can and Cannot Do
A Claude Skill is instructions, not a ledger connection. What it can and cannot do for real bookkeeping, and where a purpose-built tool has to own the ledger.
10 min
Claude Cowork for Accounting Firms: A Rollout Guide
AI for Accountants
Claude Cowork for Accounting Firms: A Rollout Guide
How firms roll out Claude Cowork: seats by plan tier, who reviews the output, where client data goes, and the admin controls that govern it.
8 min
QuickBooks Online Review: An Honest Bookkeeper's Take
QuickBooks Automation
QuickBooks Online Review: An Honest Bookkeeper's Take
An honest bookkeeper's review of QuickBooks Online: what it does well, where it breaks for multi-client work, and who should use it as-is.
9 min
How Many Clients Can One Bookkeeper Handle?
Bookkeeper Scaling
How Many Clients Can One Bookkeeper Handle?
The real hours math behind the bookkeeper client ceiling: where 20-25 clients comes from, why categorization eats the clock, and what moves it.
8 min
ChatGPT for Bookkeeping: What Works and What Breaks
AI Bookkeeping
ChatGPT for Bookkeeping: What Works and What Breaks
ChatGPT's official QuickBooks app is no longer read-only. See what it handles well, where it breaks on real books, and what to do about each break.
8 min
Accounts Receivable Outsourcing: When to Outsource AR and What It Costs
Accounts Receivable Management
Accounts Receivable Outsourcing: When to Outsource AR and What It Costs
What it costs to outsource accounts receivable: real bookkeeper rates, software prices, and the math for doing it yourself. Plus when to skip it.
16 min
How to Use Claude Cowork for Accounting and Bookkeeping
AI Bookkeeping
How to Use Claude Cowork for Accounting and Bookkeeping
Set up Claude Cowork for accounting and bookkeeping, install the Small Business plugin, connect QuickBooks, and run 10+ workflows with real security detail.
41 min
Do Your Books From Bank Statements With Claude
AI Bookkeeping
Do Your Books From Bank Statements With Claude
You've got a folder of bank statements and no bookkeeping software. Claude can turn that into a first draft of your books. Not finished books. A first pass you read and fix, the same way you'd check a new hire's work.
19 min
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