The Business Expense Documentation Cheat Sheet

Your credit card statement says you spent $84.50 at a restaurant. The IRS wants to know why, with whom, and what it had to do with your business. That gap — between what your statement shows and what an auditor actually wants — is where most business owners get caught.

We built a one-page cheat sheet that fixes it. The five things every business expense needs, a side-by-side example of weak vs. defensible documentation, and a printable mini-log you can keep in your wallet or your glove box for the moment the receipt lands in your hand.

Five minutes of habit-building. Years of audit-proofing.