{"id":8447,"date":"2016-08-05T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2016-08-05T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:42:27","slug":"sage-bookkeeping-celebrates-10-years-in-hailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/05\/sage-bookkeeping-celebrates-10-years-in-hailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage Bookkeeping Celebrates 10 Years In Hailey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sage Bookkeeping staff: Lisa McGraw, Carolyn Lister, Lynn Holverson, Tanya Rudy, Linda Gates and Janet Winter. Not pictured: Carmen Le, Angel Hidalgo
Photo credit: Dev Khalsa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carolyn Lister started Sage Bookkeeping in Hailey in 2006 from a need that materialized while she worked in offices in the Wood River Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first moved to the area, I worked for Sun Valley Company as a masseuse,\u201d remembers Carolyn. \u201cI started doing the books for my own company and found I had a knack for accounting. When I first started bookkeeping, everything was done by hand in large ledger books. It wasn\u2019t long after that I bought my first copy of QuickBooks and it came on a 5.25-inch floppy disk. It\u2019s pretty amazing to see how far technology has come in 33 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carolyn took to computers and software like a duck to water.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worked as a 911 dispatcher in Ketchum and would frequently work the overnight shift,\u201d Carolyn notes. \u201cI spent many evenings writing the code for Ketchum\u2019s first ambulance billing system. It was a great experience because it gave me the confidence to know I could do this for a living.\u201d<\/p>\n

As office manager of a local construction company, Carolyn learned the art of setting up a company\u2019s books to help it in more ways than just having a proper accounting of business that\u2019s been done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always tell people that a company\u2019s books tell a story \u2013 the better the books, the better the story,\u201d Carolyn explains. \u201cWhile I did take classes in accounting at CSI, I probably use my business management classes as much or more in the course of my day. Too many business owners never set up their own method of accounting in a way that helps them make decisions and create strategies. If your books are set up correctly, they\u2019ll help you do a lot more than just keeping a record.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Carolyn and her team pride themselves on being able to help their clients keep it easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to make sure our client\u2019s books are compliant and accurate and that the client knows what everything is,\u201d Carolyn explains. \u201cYour books could be put together perfectly, but if you don\u2019t understand what it means, it\u2019s useless.<\/p>\n

In her time away from the office, Carolyn volunteers as secretary of Hailey Rotary and also serves on the advisory board for the Sawtooth Botanical Garden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI encourage my staff to stay involved in the community,\u201d Carolyn notes. \u201cWe currently have eight staff including myself and we really like being on Main Street in Hailey. We work with clients all over the country and I\u2019m glad we get to do it from such a great location.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carolyn Lister started Sage Bookkeeping in Hailey in 2006 from a need that materialized while she worked in offices in the Wood River Valley. \u201cWhen I first moved to the area, I worked for Sun Valley Company as a masseuse,\u201d remembers Carolyn. \u201cI started doing the books for my own company and found I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chamber-corner","8":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}