Monday, May 12, 2014

Can Anyone Be A Bookkeeper?

By Sue Whyte


Isn?t book keeping just plugging 1 or 2 figures into a PC program?

In brief, NO!

It never fails to surprise me what quantity of folks out there and in business think that all bookkeepers do is enter figures into a PC programme which then wonderfully spits out a perfect set of accounts.

Hmm, if only!!

Bookkeeping, or in a sense good bookkeeping, is more concerned than just pumping numbers into a program and it's a misguided a real long shot concept that bookkeepers are just glorified info entry operators! Good bookkeepers will be a handy asset to your business. Good bookkeepers understand how to enter figures into a computer program properly, or write up a ledger, but just as significantly, they know exactly where and how those figures should be entered.

Making an attempt to unscramble a mess that a non-bookkeeper has made is a time consuming thing! It?s something that we at Bookkeeper?s Base do all the time. Unfortunately for many business owners it isn?t until a they're in a state of desperation because they don't have any idea of what is going on in their business.

Sound all to familiar??

Personally, it gives me and my team a superb sensation of satisfaction to be able to take a complete info entry mess and change it into a neat, tidy and accurate set of accounts. Nonetheless with any service which adds some value it includes a financial investment, and in my viewpoint, it's an investment worth making and sadly (hindsight being 20/20) one that would be used more wisely in contracting a bookkeeper from the word go and not having a untidy situation in the first place. It?s no coincidence that once a business has engaged a pro bookkeeper and has simple to read profit & loss statements as well as a real understanding of how their money is being used , that these entrepreneurs become firm changes to employing a bookkeeper.

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

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

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




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