Thursday, May 1, 2014

Can Any person Be A Bookkeeper?

By Sue Whyte


Isn?t book-keeping just plugging 1 or 2 figures into a P. C. program?

In a word, NO!

It never ceases to astonish me what quantity of folks out there and in business think that all bookkeepers do is enter figures into a P. C. program which then magically spits out a perfect set of accounts.

Hmm, if only!!

Book-keeping, or in a sense good bookkeeping, is more concerned than merely pumping numbers into a program and it is a misguided a real long shot idea that bookkeepers are just glorified information entry operators! Good bookkeepers will be an asset to your business. Good bookkeepers know how to enter figures into a P. C. programme properly, or write up a ledger, but as significantly, they know precisely where and how those figures should be entered.

Attempting to unravel a mess that a non-bookkeeper has made is a long thing! It?s something that we at Bookkeeper?s Base do all of the time. Sadly for many entrepreneurs it isn?t till a they're in a state of desperation because they don't have any notion of what is occurring in their business.

Sound familiar??

Personally, it gives me and my team a great feeling of satisfaction to be able to take a complete data entry mess and turn it into a neat, clean and accurate set of accounts. However , with any service which adds significant value it comes with a monetary investment, and in my viewpoint, it's an investment worth making and unfortunately (hindsight being 20/20) one that would be better spent in contracting a bookkeeper from the word go and not having a sloppy situation in the first instance. It?s no coincidence that once a business has engaged a professional bookkeeper and has straightforward to read profit & loss statements as well as a solid understanding of how their money is being used , that these entrepreneurs become firm changes to using a bookkeeper.

Think about a bookkeeper as you would an accountant. A bookkeeper will assist you with your business and will make your accountant?s job far simpler.

You wouldn?t get your office helper to do your tax return for you, so why would you let them run blindfolded with the finance information that goes into it?

Contact a real Perth bookkeeper and get your book keeping done professionally.




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