Lisa Donald Books

The Accountant Beside You series started after Lisa was helping her church convert their accounting system and could not find resources to explain how to make QuickBooks work in a religious environment. As she worked through the process, it dawned on her that other churches and nonprofits needed this help also.
Because small nonprofit and religious organizations often have non-accountants doing the bookkeeping, Lisa wanted to develop a series of resources that would translate the confusing accounting jargon and tasks into step-by-step instructions in plain English. The books took off and now The Accountant Beside You series is recognized globally and being used by tens of thousands of organizations across the world. Lisa is looking for a nonprofit in Antarctica, just so she can claim it has been read on every continent.
At her website, AccountantBesideYou.com, she has free videos, checklists, and other resources to help. Lisa offers online accounting classes to help small business, churches, and nonprofits understand their accounting at NonprofitAccountingClasses.com. She has been quoted in US News and World Report, featured on CBS and ABC news stations, and is a popular guest on radio stations around the nation.
Lisa also speaks to groups and at conferences about various accounting topics, including Taming the Paperwork Nightmare, Making Bookkeeping Automation Magic, Audit Proof-Sleep Well and Stay Out of the IRS Crosshairs, and Easy Ways to Protect Your Nonprofit and You from Fraud.
When she needs a break from accounting, she loves to write historical fiction. When an elderly neighbor mentioned how much she had enjoyed her Hitler Youth group back in Germany, Lisa was shocked and intrigued. Not long after that, Lisa was helping her 100 year-old Granny pack up things and found a beautiful embroidered tablecloth that looked almost new.