Finally understand your money — without becoming an accountant
The no-jargon bookkeeping system built for one-person businesses. Get your numbers under control so you can get back to the work you actually love.
"You don't need to love numbers — you just need a system that was actually built for the way you work."— Brandy Singleton
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Set up a clean, simple chart of accounts tailored to a one-person business
- Record income and expenses consistently using a repeatable weekly routine
- Reconcile your bank account every month so your books always match reality
- Read a basic profit-and-loss statement and use it to make real business decisions
- Prepare organised financial records that make tax season fast and stress-free
- Identify cash-flow gaps before they become crises and plan around them confidently
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 20 lessons
Your Financial Foundation
Establishes the mindset, vocabulary, and structural groundwork every solopreneur needs before touching a single transaction. Completing this module ensures all later recording and reporting work is built on solid, unambiguous footing.
- 1.1Bookkeeping Without the JargonIncluded
- 1.2Separate and Protect: Business vs. Personal MoneyIncluded
- 1.3Choosing Your Bookkeeping ToolIncluded
- 1.4Build Your Chart of AccountsIncluded
Recording Money In and Money Out
Builds the core daily and weekly habit of recording every transaction accurately and consistently. By the end of this module students can log all income and expenses correctly and have a repeatable 15-minute weekly routine locked in.
- 2.1Logging Income the Right WayIncluded
- 2.2Tracking Every Expense (Without Losing Your Mind)Included
- 2.3Handling Tricky Transactions: Transfers, Owners Draws, and RefundsIncluded
- 2.4Your Weekly 15-Minute Bookkeeping RoutineIncluded
Monthly Reconciliation
Teaches students to close out each month with confidence by matching their books exactly to their bank and credit-card statements. This module ensures records stay accurate and that errors or fraud are caught early — a direct prerequisite for trustworthy reporting.
- 3.1What Reconciliation Actually Is (and Why It Saves You)Included
- 3.2Reconcile Your Books in 30 Minutes a MonthIncluded
- 3.3Reconciling Credit Cards and Payment ProcessorsIncluded
Reading Your Numbers and Making Decisions
Transforms accurate books into actionable business intelligence. Students learn to read and interpret a profit-and-loss statement and then use that information to make confident, data-driven decisions — not just report the past.
- 4.1Understanding Your Profit and Loss StatementIncluded
- 4.2Comparing Periods: Spotting Trends Over TimeIncluded
- 4.3Turning Your P&L Into Business DecisionsIncluded
Tax-Ready Records All Year Long
Shifts tax preparation from a once-a-year panic into a calm, year-round habit. Students learn exactly what to track, how to organise it, how to pay themselves correctly, and how to hand off clean records — whether to an accountant or to themselves — with zero scrambling.
- 5.1What You Actually Need to Track for Tax TimeIncluded
- 5.2Estimated Taxes and Paying Yourself CorrectlyIncluded
- 5.3Building a Tax-Time Handoff PackageIncluded
Cash Flow Confidence
Equips students to look forward, not just backward — understanding the difference between profit and cash, identifying dangerous gaps before they hit, building a simple rolling forecast, and establishing the financial safety net and ongoing rhythm that keeps a solo business resilient for the long term.
- 6.1Profit vs. Cash Flow: Why They're DifferentIncluded
- 6.2Build a Simple 90-Day Cash Flow ForecastIncluded
- 6.3Your Financial Safety Net and Ongoing RhythmIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Freelance creatives
You're great at the craft but your invoices, expenses, and tax prep live in five different places — this gives you one clean system so the business side stops bleeding into your creative headspace.
Independent consultants
You advise other businesses brilliantly but your own books are a mess — Solo Books gives you the financial clarity to price, plan, and grow with confidence.
Coaches and mentors
You help clients transform their lives, but reconciling your own accounts is a mystery — this course makes your monthly numbers a 30-minute habit, not an annual panic.
Side-hustle-to-full-time founders
You've made the leap to full-time self-employment and suddenly the financial stakes are real — build the clean foundation your growing business actually needs from day one.
Service-based solopreneurs
Whether you're a photographer, designer, writer, or VA, you need to know if your business is actually profitable — this course turns your P&L from a mystery into a decision-making tool.
Tax-season panic sufferers
If every April is a frantic scramble through a year's worth of receipts, the Tax-Ready Records module alone will change your life — and the rest of the course will make sure it never happens again.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Brandy Singleton
If the financial side of your business makes you want to close your laptop and go for a walk — I get it. That feeling isn't a personal failing. It's what happens when you take advice designed for traditional businesses with accountants on staff and try to apply it to a one-person operation. Of course it feels overwhelming. It was never built for you.
That's exactly why I created Solo Books. I wanted to build the system I wish had existed when I was first trying to figure out why my bank account and my "profit" never seemed to match, why tax season felt like a fire drill every single year, and why I had no idea if my business was actually doing well or just staying afloat. The answer wasn't to become an accountant. It was to build a simple, repeatable system that fits the way a solo business actually works.
What you'll find in this course isn't theory or textbook accounting. It's a practical, step-by-step method — from setting up a chart of accounts that actually makes sense for your kind of work, to a 15-minute weekly routine you can do with a coffee in hand, to reading your profit-and-loss statement and knowing what to do with it. Every lesson is built around real situations: owner's draws, payment processors, slow months, big months, the tax bill you forgot to plan for.
Here's the thing I want you to hear: you don't need to love numbers to be good at this. You just need a system that's been designed for your life. Plenty of brilliant freelancers, consultants, and coaches feel completely lost when it comes to their books — and most of them get it under control faster than they ever expected once they have the right framework.
By the time you finish Solo Books, you'll have clean records, a monthly routine you can actually keep, a clear picture of your cash flow, and a tax season that no longer ruins your autumn. You'll understand your business in a way that makes you more confident, not just with money, but in every decision you make.
Come and get your numbers under control. The work you actually love will be waiting for you on the other side.
— Brandy Singleton
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