We recently sat down with Julismiles (a.k.a., Juli A.H. Evans, CPA) to talk about her new book, Organized and Profitized. As a Financial Relationship Expert and Edutainer, she helps businesses turn big profits and navigate uncertain times. Here’s what she had to say about getting real, staying organized and realizing financial security.
Q: Tell us a little about Organized and Profitized.
A: My book presents readers with the Top 10 questions they should ask about their finances. This is a warm and friendly 10-step guide that simply and joyfully walks its readers through their honest and factual path to profits.
Q: Where did you come up with the idea?
A: I have always loved clarifying, organizing, and simplifying processes to make life easier for everyone involved. A great time to refocus your energies on fundamental behind the scenes business matters is while business may be slower than usual or as you are starting your business on the right foot.
Q: How did your idea evolve into a book?
A: Being organized and profitized is a state of mind. If you can clearly visualize the state of your business from a financial perspective, and if your state of affairs is organized, then you can clearly visualize your financial goals, and your business can be profitized. Everyone needs a helping hand sometimes, this eBook and audio book series is the perfect tool to make life easier for small business owners!
Q: How does being organized translate to better security?
A: By being financially organized, you will no longer need to wish, hope or pray about your financial state of affairs, you will know! Having this knowledge means having the ability to visualize your financial status and this ability is what brings you financial security.
Q: What, in your opinion, is the worst mistake people make with their money?
A: Perhaps the worst mistake people make with their money in businesses or households is either taking it too seriously or taking it too lightly. Naturally, as a CPA, Certified Public Accountant, I have tended to exist in the area of “taking my money too seriously,” but as also as a CPA, a Cute Party Animal, I have had my time of “taking my money too lightly,” as well.
The fact is that the world needs balance, debit-credit, yin-yang, not too hard, not too soft, but just right. Maintaining this balance in a business and personal setting will keep a company and household moving forward successfully.
Q: How do you think the recession is affecting the way people think about their money?
A: For many folks, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction from when “we were living high on the hog” so to speak. Before we may have been taking our money too lightly, in the past couple of years, we may have been taking our money too seriously. To everything there is a season. Now, we have the opportunity to take a deep breath, sit back, reflect on our financial affairs, get organized and get profitized!
Q: If people had to take away one message from your book, what would it be?
A: Money, numbers, incomes, expenses, finances, accounting, whatever you call them exist in a systematic relationship to each other: Cause and effects. If you buy inventory with cash, you now have less cash, but you have products to show for it! If you sell those products for cash, you now have less inventory and have incurred a cost of sale, but you also generated revenue and created more cash! When you remove all the “noise” and focus on financial cause and effects, then you can find clarity. The easiest way to do this is to get your financial affairs organized, then you can get profitized!
Julismiles (a.k.a., Juli A. H. Evans, CPA), Financial Relationship Expert, is the President & Founder of Julismiles, Inc., a Financial Edutainment Company. She is the author of Organized & Profitized, the eBook & Audio Book Series, and author/editor of NumberByColor, the Edutaining Ezine. Julismiles helps small business owners who struggle to understand their company’s books & cringe when crunching numbers. She helps them by teaching them simple, empowering, and colorful solutions, so they can finally have a positive relationship with their finances.
