Hire a Bookkeeper

How do you know it’s time to hire a bookkeeper?

Here are some clear signs that it is time to hire a bookkeeper:

• You have over one year’s worth of receipts stuffed in a shoe box.
• You used to enter data into your excel sheet or Quickbooks a couple of times a week, then once a month, and now you pull that all-nighter the day before your tax appointment.
• Your employees and family know to stay away from you during the time that you are working on your books.
• Your books don’t even come close to showing the same numbers as your bank balance or checkbook register.
• You can’t figure out if your customers have paid you or not.
• You feel your quality of life has deteriorated because you are spending too much time on your books.

Your books, when done right and timely, are a useful tool for making business decisions. You don’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you’ve been. Your books can provide a look at your business’s past performance so that you can better understand where you are going. They can be used to build a budget that can give you information about the health of your business as you move forward. They can make sure that you don’t miss important payment deadlines and help you plan cash flow.

A good bookkeeper can restore your quality of life, give you the tools you need for business planning, and let you focus on what you do best: your business, your customers, and your family.