This childcare CPA comparison looks at the two firms most often mentioned together by childcare center owners researching specialty accounting: Honest Buck Accounting and The Childcare CPA™. Both work exclusively with childcare. Both serve clients nationwide. Both offer tax preparation, bookkeeping, and advisory services. This page examines the real differences — including where The Childcare CPA™ may be the stronger read more.

5 Benefits of Outdoor Play for Early Learners (And Why Your Childcare Center Should Make It a Priority)   Let’s be honest — getting kids outside sometimes feels like one more thing on an already very long to-do list. Between ratios, meals, nap schedules, and keeping everything running smoothly, outdoor time can easily get squeezed out of the day. But read more.

Selling your childcare business is one of the largest financial events of an owner’s life. However, most multi-location operators approach it with assumptions that quietly cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. This complete guide covers the entire process from initial consideration through closing, drawing on the four detailed pieces published in our Selling cluster over the past month. Whether read more.

Most childcare sales don’t fall apart for dramatic reasons. They fall apart for small, fixable reasons that nobody addressed in time. The seven things that can derail a childcare center sale tend to repeat across deals, and almost all of them can be fixed before buyers ever see them. This guide walks through each one, with specific guidance on how read more.

Most childcare owners imagine the sale process as a series of meetings with friendly buyers asking general questions. The reality is dramatically different. Sophisticated buyers send diligence teams that work through a specific checklist of indicators, and what childcare buyers look at often surprises sellers who haven’t been through the process before. This guide walks through the actual list, organized read more.

Most multi-location childcare owners think their books look fine. However, when a buyer’s diligence team arrives, they find a dozen reasons to discount the offer. To clean up your P&L before you sell, owners typically need to start at least a year before any conversation with a broker. Otherwise, they accept a price discount they didn’t have to take. Admittedly, read more.

Most multi-location childcare owners assume their portfolio sells as one package. It doesn’t have to. When one site is dragging down the others, the smarter move is often to carve it out and sell what’s strong. This guide on selling a childcare center walks through how owners make that decision, what buyers actually want to see, and the financial preparation read more.