Selling on eBay from Ireland looks deceptively simple. List the item, post it, watch the payout land. Then VAT season hits, you try to reconcile six months of payouts against bank deposits, and the spreadsheet starts arguing with itself. That is usually the moment...
You started freelancing because you wanted control. The work, the clients, the calendar. Then the brown envelope from Revenue lands, the bank balance jumps and dips, and you are wondering whether you should be saving for tax monthly, registering for VAT, or moving...
Running a property management business in Ireland is a numbers game with a side order of legal admin. Service charge arrears, rent ledgers across dozens of tenancies, supplier invoices stacking up, sinking fund movements, OMC year-end accounts, RTB notices, VAT...
Running an architectural practice in Ireland is a strange financial beast. You can have a fat order book and a queue of approved planning applications, and still find yourself short on cash at month-end. The reason almost always comes back to the same place: standard...
You can spec a room down to the last cushion trim, then open Xero and feel completely lost. That is the gap most Irish design studios live in. The work is creative, but the money behind it is messy: fees billed by stage, supplier invoices arriving weeks after a client...