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Financial Record-Keeping for Artists

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Do you keep your receipts in a shoebox? Are your records a struggle to put together when it comes to tax time? Are  you unsure of exactly how much money you are making as an artist? Join La-Tasha Best-Gaddy for a day-long workshop where you’ll take all your financial documents and reports and consolidate them into one working document that tells you the numbers. You’ll go from a folder of printouts and receipts to a working spreadsheet as you work through accounting issues that you may be having within your business. 

This workshop will cover:

  • record keeping practices, rules and tools for artists

  • how to prepare a profit and loss statement

  • what cash flow is and why you need to know

  • how to tell if your art business is profitable

  • which tax forms and filings are really required for your business structure

This workshop is for you if you are an artist who sells their work but avoids looking at the numbers. You must know the numbers to grow the business, this workshop will help you corral that information.


To get the most out of this workshop we recommend that you:

Be prepared to work on a laptop or desktop computer with access to either Google sheets or Excel. Mobile devices are not sufficient.

Print out and have ready all your available financial documents:

  • 3 months printed bank statements

  • 3 months of bills for your business (phone, suppliers, etc.)

  • 3 months payment reports for venmo, cashapp, square, paypal, etc.

Your financial information will remain confidential, but you will work on putting this information into personal spreadsheets. This is a how-to and let’s-do workshop; the goal is to end the day with your financial information properly recorded. 

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LaTasha Best-Gaddy is the Chief Strategist for Infinity Bridges, Inc., an independent business consulting firm focused on providing innovative solutions to systemic economic development challenges for underserved entrepreneurs. With a focus on women, veterans, minority and teen business owners, LaTasha is known for supporting entrepreneurs with both deep knowledge and humor. She has served on numerous boards and committees throughout our region, including Self-Help Credit Union, City of Durham Small Business Advisory Committee,  NC Employee Ownership Center, The Collaborative, and Rebuild Durham. She is a proud Eagle with both graduate and undergraduate degrees from North Carolina Central University, and holds additional certifications from the NC Rural Economic Development Institute, Leadership North Carolina and Leadership Triangle. Named a 2020 Woman of Distinction by Chapel Hill magazine, LaTasha lives in Durham, NC, where she is mom to two teenage entrepreneurs. 

Learn more about LaTasha on her website  or follow her on Linked InTwitter, Instagram, or Facebook 

Register today, workshop size is limited to allow for maximum instructor interaction


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