Same here. When I finally did incorporate, I did use a local lawyer who does everything for $300 and walked out with my documents and EIN. Took about an hour. Said lawyer also allows use of their office address as the official contact and weeds out spam/scam official-looking letters.
I do my own accounting, it's not exceedingly difficult if you use e.g. TurboTax, but it does take time that you won't be billing for. If you don't use an actual accountant, you probably want to be pretty conservative with writeoffs, deductions, etc. I have a lot of physical inventory and hard purchases, so that makes it more straightforward.
Do be aware that all the stuff about having a corporate veil to protect you is basically nonsense when you're one person with a corporate entity. I know folks who thought that was protecting them, didn't have professional insurance "because if they sue the company it won't come down on me," and found out that yeah, that's a super easy veil to pierce.
I do my own accounting, it's not exceedingly difficult if you use e.g. TurboTax, but it does take time that you won't be billing for. If you don't use an actual accountant, you probably want to be pretty conservative with writeoffs, deductions, etc. I have a lot of physical inventory and hard purchases, so that makes it more straightforward.
Do be aware that all the stuff about having a corporate veil to protect you is basically nonsense when you're one person with a corporate entity. I know folks who thought that was protecting them, didn't have professional insurance "because if they sue the company it won't come down on me," and found out that yeah, that's a super easy veil to pierce.