Professional Bookkeepers Will Help your Small Business Save Dollars…With Sense

The decision to start and run your own business is exciting and scary at the same time.  All the decisions, as well as all of the work, are on your shoulders.

The day comes when you realize that you can’t do it all.  There aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done and have time for yourself, your friends and your family.  So you make the decision to hire someone.  Which part of running your company takes up your time, frustrates you and drains you so that you can’t focus on what motivated you to start your business?

Most business owners will say the bookkeeping.  To keep up with vendors, receivables and balancing bank and credit card statements is a difficult job.  If you are selling a product or service, your time is more productive in the field…cultivating customers, networking with people who can help you get in front of the people that will help you succeed.

You find it difficult to share financial information with anyone.  You can hire someone to answer the phones and write the checks, make deposits, but you want to hang onto the control.

You, small business owner, are in need of a Professional Bookkeeper.  There is no need to hire a full time employee to do the bookkeeping for your business if it takes you less than twenty hours a month to work on your books.  A Professional Bookkeeper will streamline the process for you and provide financial information you can use to make sound decisions about the progress of your company.  You will know your financial position in a timely manner to be able to cut your losses with things that aren’t working and improve your success with things that are.

A Professional Bookkeeper will also keep up with deadlines, filings and the forms that a business requires in case of an audit.  Do you know the difference between an independent contractor and an employee?  Do you know which forms you need to have for either of them?  Of course you know about the W-2, but how about the difference between an I-9 and a W-9?  Do you know when your Sales Tax, Payroll Tax and Estimate payments are due?  Are you 1099 compliant and do you know what the penalty for failure to file 1099s is?  A Professional Bookkeeper does.

The added benefit of a Professional Bookkeeper is that you will be able to provide accurate, clean records to your CPA at tax time.  Instead of paying for a CPA to clean up your records, you can take full advantage of this valuable resource to develop budgets and long term planning for where you want your company to go.

Bottom line, Professional Bookkeepers will save you money.  This will leave you the time and energy to focus on what you do best…develop your company to its full potential.  After all, isn’t that why you started your business?

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