Know your numbers.
Use them to grow.
Bookkeeping, Profit First, and financial advisory for creative service businesses, especially interior designers and marketing agencies.
Baker Bookkeeps provides Profit First bookkeeping and strategic financial advisory for creative service businesses, a clearer, more collaborative alternative to a traditional or fractional CFO. Every client gets flat monthly pricing and a team that explains your numbers in plain language.
Who we help
Creative service businesses: interior designers, marketing agencies, and creative business owners.
What we solve
Books you can trust, cash flow you can predict, and numbers you actually understand.
Why us
Master Certified Profit First expertise, flat monthly pricing, and advice you can act on Monday morning.
Your next step
Book a free intro call to see if we're the right fit.
Financial clarity you'll actually use
Hire someone to make your finances better, not to make them disappear.
Writing a big check so you never have to think about your finances again might sound like relief, but it isn't how the healthiest businesses grow. They partner with financial experts to understand their numbers, and that understanding is what helps them reach their full potential.
When you picture a CFO, you probably picture complexity: forty-tab spreadsheets, dashboards you'll never open, and advice that sounds impressive but doesn't tell you what to do on Monday. That adds complexity, not clarity.
I'm the anti-CFO. I translate your numbers into plain language, then help you turn them into decisions about pricing, hiring, spending, and growth. You stay in the conversation, because the business owners who grow with intention are the ones who understand their numbers, not the ones who outsourced them and looked away.
Relief is a fine reason to reach out. It's just not enough to build a financial partnership around.
Plain Language
No jargon. Just what your numbers mean and what to do next.
Customization
Support built around your business, not a one-size template.
True Partnership
We're in the conversation with you, month after month.
Judgment-Free Zone
Messy books welcome. We start where you are.
Want to understand your numbers and use them to reach your business's full potential? Let's talk.
Book a Callin 90 days
One number. One plan.
One catering client went from a 5% to a 30% gross profit margin in 90 days. We didn't hand them a dashboard. We built one focused plan around one number.
Read the full story →Three ways to partner with us
Every tier starts with clean, reliable books. Choose how much guidance you want on top.
Essentials
Essential Support and Clarity
- Monthly bookkeeping: all transactions recorded and reconciled in your accounting software
- Monthly financial reports delivered via our secure client portal
Perfect for business owners who want reliable books and self-guided support.
Partnership
Personalized Guided Financial Support
- Profit First guidance built around your goals
- Monthly advisory calls focused on your profit margin
- Proactive, regular check-ins so nothing falls through the cracks between conversations
- Quarterly tax estimate support (standardized guidance on what to set aside; consult your CPA for specifics)
Ideal for business owners who want consistent, hands-on guidance across their books and day-to-day operations.
Growth
Strategic Finance, Operations & Revenue Growth Advisory
- Two calls/touchpoints each month: one owner-level call, plus a dedicated touchpoint with your team member (EA, ops support, whoever keeps things running) so you're never stuck as the middleman
- Revenue and growth coaching layered alongside your financial and operational advisory
Designed for business owners ready for full partnership across finance, operations, and growth.
One more big client won't fix it. A clear plan for your numbers and your growth will.
Flat monthly pricing, no surprise invoices. See what clients like you typically invest →
Bookkeeping for designers who want to know they're doing it right
You buy furniture and materials for clients, collect deposits, mark up trade pricing, and juggle projects that pay on their own schedule. Then there's sales tax. We handle it, so you don't have to guess.
Bookkeeping for Interior Designers →Run a marketing agency? See how we help agencies →
What we help interior designers with
- Sales tax on furniture and product sales, filed and paid
- Tracking each project, so you know which ones actually made money
- Keeping client deposits and purchases separate from your own income
- Smoothing out project-based cash flow with Profit First
- Monthly reports and advisory calls in plain language
Joy was phenomenal in helping me get my bookkeeping on the right track! It was so reassuring having someone else take a look at my books to ensure that I'm doing everything the right way. Her services are worth every penny, I would highly recommend her to anyone!
Joy Baker
Profit First Professional
Joy and the Baker Bookkeeps team pair clean books with advisory and, at the Growth tier, revenue coaching, so your numbers turn into a plan.
Meet the team →How you'll share documents with us
- After your intro call, you'll get access to our secure client portal.
- Upload documents and receive your monthly reports there, not over email.
- Questions? Your team is a message away.
Wondering about taxes, payroll, or pricing?
We've answered the questions business owners ask most before booking a call.
Ready to understand your numbers?
Book a free intro call. We'll learn about your business, answer your questions, and confirm your flat monthly rate.
Book a CallServing creative service businesses [remotely / in Tennessee]
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