EP256: Jacqui Cubis - How Workflow Software Can Optimize Your Bookkeeping Business

Jacqui Cubis: I needed to move forward a little bit faster on my ideas and not be scared to step into it. You know, not be scared to step into the growth and then say, okay, I've got the support here. I need to use it and make it happen for me. I, you know, I need to grow this business to be able to put food on the table for my family because they are so young. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by PureBookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a great one. Our guest is an Australian bookkeeper and systems and procedures expert who owns About Business Bookkeeping and Evolutionary Workflow Plus. She is a longtime Pure Bookkeeping licensee. Jackie Kubis, welcome to the show. Hello, Michael. How are you? I am great, and it's so wonderful to have you as a guest. On all the way from Australia and also a very long-time community member of Pure Bookkeeping. I am, I am. I was an ambassador for the mentoring system there for a while and I've been with Pure Bookkeeping for probably 9 and a half years. I think they just started when I found them. So they're absolutely amazing and I couldn't have grown without them. It's beautiful. Well, I've heard of you so many times over the last 9 and a half years. We've never met or even spoke, but I know you're up to great things and Australia, and I'm excited to share that with our listener. Yeah, 100%. 100%. So where would you like to start? At the beginning? It could be a very long call.

Michael Palmer: We go right back to the beginning. Yes, it's— I'll let you tell what you think is relevant, but, uh, yeah, give us a bit of your career journey leading up to this point.

Jacqui Cubis: Okay, so I was always in finance. I probably shouldn't start that early, but, um, started the bookkeeping business, really wanted to leverage, um, as I had two really small children, um, Then I came across Pure Bookkeeping. I probably had the business for about a year and a half by that stage, but it was very small. The reason that I was attracted to it was really the HR section. So I used that really heavily, found my new first contractor,