Essentially Intentional

helping small business owners gain control of their business finances

Are you a small business owner who currently lacks control of their business’s financial tracking? Then you are in the right place!

Offerings

  • The hub where you can receive new free financial control training resources and updates directly so as to not have to rely on social media algorithms. See the Newsletter Page for details.

  • So far have helped over 165,000 small business owners and bookkeepers learn new Accounting and QuickBooks Online skills

    Link to Channel below:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9k_lSEAha1FIMGMq6r9YlQ

  • Go to the Course Series Page to view our course series offering.

    The Basic Structure of the Essentially Intentional Financial Control Training Course Series is this:

    Free Course: Learn How to Set Up Your Small Business

    Paid, Premium Course 1: Become Your Own Bookkeeper

    Paid, Premium Course 2: Become Your Own CFO (Coming Soon)

  • This service allows you to hire us to become your small business’s freelance bookkeeper. We currently specialize in working with Retailers (any physical locations including small businesses such as coffee shops) and E-Commerce Stores. The best situation is a small business utilizing QuickBooks Online and an External POS System such as: Stripe, Square, Shopify, Clover, etc. This service allows you to fully outsource your small business's monthly bookkeeping task. If interested in potentially filling one of these spots, please see the Contact Page to send us a message and we can get the conversation started.

  • I thoroughly enjoy the problem-solving in these projects, so send me your messy bookkeeping files, the messier the better! Unlike my outsourced freelance bookkeeper service where I specialize in retailers and e-commerce stores, I will take on projects within any small business industry for these projects. What this project entails is a complete clean-up/catch-up for a determined date range (usually depending on past tax filings). The end goal of this service is to turn your messy bookkeeping file (or lack thereof) into an up-to-date and tax-compliant (accurate Profit and Loss & Balance Sheet Reports) file. If interested, go to the Contact Page to send me a message and we’ll get the dialogue started!

  • We will use Zoom for this session. We will have the ability to screen share and if needed, the ability for you to grant me access control of your screen so I can make any needed entries directly. The meeting will be recorded and sent to you for future reference. Click the link below to book:

    https://calendly.com/essentially-intentional/training-with-gunnar-1-hour

  • Our fractional Controller services are a cost-effective solution that bridges the gap between your Accounting and Bookkeeping team and your company’s CFO or Owner. You gain access to Executive-Level services and expertise at a fraction of the cost compared to hiring a full-time Controller on salary.

    Services Include:

    • Overseeing and training your current Bookkeeping team

    • Auditing the Accounting & Financial Workflow for efficiency and cost-effectiveness

    • Financial reporting: Preparing and presenting accurate and compliant financial statements that show the company's financial health

    • Budgeting and Forecasting: Helping to set budgets, monitoring results, and making adjustments

    • Internal Controls: Establishing, reviewing, and enforcing internal controls to ensure financial data accuracy and protect company assets

    • Financial statement interpretation: Interpreting financial statement results and communicating them to management and others

Find yourself in any of these scenarios?

  • You are considering starting a new small business, but when it comes to the bookkeeping side of things, you have no idea where to begin.

  • You have been running a small business for some time, but have completed no bookkeeping whatsoever, and have only been using your bank account balance to monitor your business’s financial health, possibly also behind on a few years worth of tax filings.

  • You have been running a small business and have been tracking expenses on something like Excel, but your business is starting to outgrow this system of bookkeeping and you are looking for an upgrade.

  • You have been running your small business for some time, and have attempted either on your own or hired a bookkeeper, but believe the the current state of the bookkeeping completed, whether within Excel, QuickBooks Online, or elsewhere is a mess and in serious need of some clean up.

  • Your small business bookkeeping has in the past been being completed, but things have fallen behind. You may be a few months behind or possibly years behind.

  • You are currently running your small business and the bookkeeping as well. However, you are interested in the idea of creating some more autonomy and time saved for yourself by hiring a remote professional in order to completely outsource this task of completing the monthly bookkeeping.

  • You are currently running your small business and the bookkeeping as well. You are not sure if you would yet like to hire a remote professional in order to fully outsource your small business bookkeeping task. However, you like the idea of having a professional take a look at your books in order to verify the accuracy and suggest any needed changes, whether this be a one-time, quarterly, or monthly thing.

  • You currently are running your small business and your bookkeeping and feel confident and up to date. However, you like the idea of receiving small business bookkeeping training or order to ensure that your skills remain sharp and up to date with the latest small bookkeeping trends and technology.

  • You are actually a small business bookkeeping contractor yourself and like the idea of receiving training resources to keep your skills sharp and learn more about accounting principles in order to best serve your clients.

  • I’m sure there are more scenarios possible than the ones listed here. Read on regarding the scenarios where I will not be of help as well as the list of specific service offerings to see if there may be a solution (or not) here for you!

If So, Then We May Be A Good Fit!

Find Yourself in any of these scenarios? If so, then we may not be a good fit

  • Looking for a full-service payroll provider. We do not provide full-service payroll. However, we do help integrate payroll software into bookkeeping software and also know some great full-service payroll providers that we could introduce you to.

  • Looking for a bookkeeper to take over your QuickBooks Desktop file. We do not work with QuickBooks Desktop.

  • Looking for someone to enter things such as invoices and bills. We do not provide these kinds of services directly. However, we will provide training on how to do this on your end during the onboarding of an outsourced monthly bookkeeping service.

  • Looking for bookkeeping services for your non-profit. We currently only work within the world of for-profit small businesses. 

My mission is simple. In my personal life, my overarching life philosophy is to best live it in a way that limits the chance of later regret as much as possible. To me, this does not entail going crazy with partying or anything. Actually it is the opposite, it involves constantly pushing myself out of my comfort zone and living with intense discipline. The overarching direction comes down to pursuing the completion of the goals on my “Life Goals List”. If interested in following along on this journey, you can check out my Life Goals List Article here. Also, if you sign up for my Email Newsletter, I will in addition to sending out free financial control training resources send out periodic updates on the status of my pursuing these goals.

On my career side, I knew that a change was needed in order to more intentionally pursue this direction. The biggest change here was creating a career involving more autonomy and control. So, Essentially Intentional, LLC was created. Pursing knowledge from people like Cal Newport, author of “So Good They Can’t Ignore You”, I knew that in order to pursue a career life of more autonomy and control, some actual skills on my end needed to be offered to the marketplace in return. These skills offered are: Leadership and setting up efficient systems from my days as an Operations Manager, Accounting from graduating with my Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, Teaching and Video Production from my experience of running a YouTube channel dedicated to teaching small business owners how to gain more control of their business financials and all the other small business bookkeeping/accounting specific skills involved in running Essentially Intentional, LLC for many years now. 

Essentially Intentional’s mission is simple. I believe that one of the biggest factors in your ability to lead a more intentional life is more autonomy and control, especially when it comes to what you do in order to generate income. That is what I myself have focused so much energy towards for years now in order to work towards living a more intentional life. So, I simply took the combination of my professional skills and combined them with a need in the marketplace that I care about in order to come up with an overarching mission for Essentially Intentional. Essentially Intentional’s mission is this: 

"Increase The Amount of Autonomy in Small Business Owners' Lives By Helping Them Gain Control of Their Small Businesses's Financials So That They May Lead More Intentional Lives"

-Gunnar Harris, Owner, Essentially Intentional, LLC
See "About page" to learn more

McKenzie, Owner, Trash Bandits LLC

“Hello!

I came across Gunnar as he was completing a in-depth tutorial with QuickBooks Online on YouTube. I can’t tell you how much he changed my life that day. His in-depth knowledge of QuickBooks online was beyond a CPA I hired through the QB website to set up my books. Gunnar has exemplary communication for explaining accounting procedures and translating my unique needs for my business to QuickBooks Online. He set me up for success. I have templates, a better understanding of work arounds for matching significant transactions that QB doesn’t naturally coordinate with, and a clearing account for my ebay.

My husband is a reseller on ebay and we transitioned between two types of payment methods (paypal and bank). A workflow for each of these types of funding sources were required. The amount of work Gunnar put in just to make sure my Paypal feeds that do not translate perfectly into QBO were 100% accurate to the cent was amazing. You will not find another person that gives you such value for your money. His hourly rate for the headache he removes, the efficiency he provides, and the training is simply affordable. I had a CPA hired during the same time and I had to pay Gunnar to fix my bank reconciliations he worked on.

Gunnar shared my vision of 100% accuracy. His ability to understand my business, my personal finances, and even the extra benefit of giving me resources for 1099’s that was not through QBO is something I couldn’t pay him enough. When you hire Gunnar you are getting the best of the best. What Gunnar completed in 2 months would have taken me a year.

Inventory, Journal Entries, Personal and Business comingled linked accounts (would not advise this ever!), Sales orders, Credit Card Payments with interest, Paypal, Ebay direct deposit, and Payroll are things this amazing person did to train me as a business owner to take control of my finances. I am sure I forgot something on this list but understand that his knowledge is vast and if he doesn’t know he actually follows up with you! I have never met a more professional expert.

If you are stressed out, confused why Quickbooks won’t work, or just want him to do the work for you Gunnar is your most reliable person.”

Pat, Owner, Performance Tune Auto Repair (Now All-Tech East & All-Tech West)

“Gunnar is assisting us with a conversion from QB desktop to QB online. He is very knowledgeable in QB functionality and professional, fast, and thorough in his approach. Highly recommended! Plus he is a genuinely nice guy and fun to work with.”

Contact

gunnar@essentially-intentional.com

1312 17th St PMB 75198
Denver, CO 80202