Even though it's a teeney, tiny, intsy, bitsy plug for herself, I will back up Jennifer's plug and say you need help.

Whether it's a flesh and blood bookkeeper, maybe part-time, or outsourcing your bookkeeping as per Jennifer here, some sort of staffing will give you leverage.

It sounds like your skills should be kept focused on growing the business, not the mundane operations as entering in "Check # 1034 for $450 on account # 84982" Office supplies can be ordered online easily now and you could even delegate that if you don't have time to fish the Office Depot or Staples website.

BTW, as a business owner, I'm terrible with this aspect of the business too. All the more reason to get help to organize you.

Also, remember, there's internal accounting, which it sounds like you are using Quicken for that and there is what I call tax accounts (your bank accounts). At the end of the day, if you have 50 sales and you took in $1000 in revenue and you paid out $500 in overhead, that is what is tracked by Quickbooks. You don't have to get complex with this - sometimes a one-write system works OK, esp. if you don't have employees. But yes, Quickbooks is the industry standard that your accountant will look at at the end of year to see what you made and what you spent to prepare your tax return.

But I'll say this - I'll swear to God that Quickbooks doesn't work very well at all, if you don't have somebody (you or an assistant) pushing the computer keys and inputing information.

In fact, the program just kind of seems to sit there. If it were an employee, I'd fire it.