Friday, May 2, 2014

Can Any person Be A Bookkeeper?

By Sue Whyte


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

In brief, NO!

It never ceases to amaze me what number of people out there and in business think that all bookkeepers do is enter figures into a computer program which then magically spits out an ideal set of accounts.

Hmm, if only!!

Book keeping, or in a sense good bookkeeping, is a lot more involved than merely pumping numbers into a program and it's an ill-judged a real long shot idea that bookkeepers are just glorified data entry operators! Good bookkeepers will be an asset to your business. Good bookkeepers know how to enter figures into a computer program correctly, or write up a ledger, but as significantly, they know exactly where and how those figures should be entered.

Trying 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. Sadly for many business owners it isn?t until a they're in a state of desperateness because they have no idea of what is occurring in their business.

Sound all to familiar??

Personally, it gives me and my team a great feeling of satisfaction to be in a position to take a complete info entry mess and change it into a neat, tidy and correct set of accounts. However , with any service which adds some value it comes with a financial investment, and in my opinion, it's an investment worth making and unfortunately (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 instance. It?s no coincidence that once a business has engaged a pro bookkeeper and has easy to read profit & loss statements as well as a clear understanding of how their money is being utilised , that these entrepreneurs become firm converts to employing 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 assistant to do your tax estimate for you, so why would you let them run blindfolded with the finance information that goes into it?

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




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