Class · Design
Design studio
Logos, websites and branding, billed by the hour.
- Logo Design$50.00rate
- Web Design$50.00rate
- Consulting$60.00rate
Sample company·Seattle, Washington
[Your Name]'s YinYang Graphic Design
MaryBeth Yang's design studio at 400 Broad St, Seattle. Design work on one side, an online store on the other. You set up its books from the very first day.
- Opened
- Day 1 of the Chapter 9 case study
- Structure
- Single-member LLC, files as a sole proprietor
- Studio
- 600 square feet at 400 Broad St, Seattle
- Classes
- Design · Products · Overhead
- Online store
- Nile.com prints, stores and ships the merchandise
Your name on the door
Type your name and the headline above becomes your studio.
The book names the company after you, in Table 9-2. Your name stays in this browser.
Two sides of the studio
Design work and an online store
In Chapter 9 you track them as separate classes, so MaryBeth can see which side of the business is earning.
Design studio
Class · Products
Online store
MaryBeth's art on gift items, sold through Nile.com.
- Art Tees$24.00costs $10.00
- Baseball Hats$24.00costs $12.00
- Coffee Mugs$18.00costs $9.00
- Art Totes$20.00costs $9.00
Chapter 9 · the case study
Month one
The case study hands you a month of business and no step-by-step instructions, the way real bookkeeping arrives.
- D1Day 1MaryBeth deposits her investment to open the doors.Bank deposit
- D1Day 1Rent and a refundable deposit go to Orr Realty.Check
- D2Day 2Nile Online bills for the website merchandise.Bill
- 27 more entries before the month closes, in Chapter 9 of the Standard tier.
Clients
Who MaryBeth designs for
- Meryl's Beauty Salon
- JJ's Boutique
- Bello Kane Clothing Design
- Lannister Stark Industries
- Crystalynn Noh
Capstone · Chapter 16
The Lunch-and-Learn
The studio has taken off. MaryBeth starts monthly marketing workshops for Seattle shop owners, and you run the next one, at JJ's Boutique, as a project.
Read the brief- 1Set up the Marketing Lunch-and-Learn project for JJ's Boutique.
- 2Add Mandy Sandri as a contractor, and a 10% price rule for workshop clients.
- 3Set up payroll for Hartley McGill in a payroll trial company, and run it.
YinYang Graphic Design lives in a book
You keep its books in QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step, by Alicia Katz Pollock. Its exercises are part of the Standard tier. The student demo walks you through chapter 4 of the book, with no account.