Guides
Articles by our bookkeepers about what we do every day: booking bank lines, finding receipts, closing the month.
- Bookkeeping in the Netherlands for English-speaking founders
You can keep the books of a Dutch business in English, with an English-language package and a bookkeeper who writes to you in English. The rules themselves are Dutch. Here is what they ask of you and who usually takes care of each part.
- Why a Stripe payout isn't your revenue
The amount Stripe pays into your bank is what is left of your sales after fees and refunds have come off. If you book that amount as revenue, both your sales and your costs come out too low. The same goes for Mollie, PayPal and Shopify Payments.
- Dutch VAT return, quarter by quarter: a checklist
Most businesses in the Netherlands file a VAT return every quarter. In Dutch that is the btw-aangifte, and the tax authority is the Belastingdienst. Here are the deadlines, what goes in the return and what to check before you send it.
- Moneybird or Exact Online for a small business: a bookkeeper’s view
We work for clients in both Moneybird and Exact Online, and both do the job for a small business. Which one suits you depends on what you need besides bookkeeping, such as more than one administration, cost centres or more users. Here they are side by side.