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Top Reasons Why You Need to Hire a Professional Bookkeeper

Starting a new business is an exciting time! You have so much to do: create a logo,

design your marketing, pull together your store, shop or office, hire staff, order

inventory and office supplies... and so on, and so on. It's hard to keep up!

Money is always tight when you're starting a new business. You don't want spend

money where it's not necessary. After all, money is going to be tight for the next

little while.

That's why many new business owners "save" some money by doing two things:

Do their own bookkeeping Gold Coast, and

Use a spreadsheet like Excel to do it with.

It would to too harsh to say that these are big mistakes. After all, you want to

avoid unnecessary expenses. And if you don't have the money to pay a

professional right now, well, that's reality.

At the same time, I'd like to examine reasons why this might not be a good idea.

In fact, it just might be the case that engaging the services of a professional

bookkeeper might be a great way to spend some of your precious resources.

You can get your business set up correctly. Whether it be a sole

proprietorship or corporation, setting up various accounts is important,

including:

Creating all the accounting categories you'll need to track your activities

Sales tax accounts with the tax man

Payroll source deductions with the tax man

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You avoid huge mistakes that you'll have to pay to have corrected down the

road.

We've spent hours fixing mistakes such as, not knowing the difference

between an asset and expense.

If meals and entertainment expenses happen, do you know how to

correctly record sales taxes?

You establish bookkeeping Gold Coast habits early.

Create a special place where all receipts are gathered

Learn how to annotate them so you'll know how they'll be categorized

Turn them over to be processed each month

Expect regular reports about your Business's Financial Story

You free up time for tasks closer to the "core" of you business.

What makes you more money: Sitting down in front of a computer doing

data entry, or talking with prospective and existing clients? No-brainer!

You take some worry away.

Getting a call or letter from the tax man saying this or that remittance

hasn't been done is stressful. Avoid this.

You start early to make business decisions based upon updated financial

numbers.

When it's time to make a large expenditure, or hiring someone, you have to

know your numbers. They will help you make better business decisions.

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You compare month-to-month and year-over year.

Proper bookkeeping Gold Coast professional services come with a lot of

reports that reveal how you are doing. By starting off the right way you

have access to all this information right from the beginning.

You'll be ready for your accountant, and he or she will charge you less

money.

By presenting your accountant with a "clean" set of books you are doing

yourself and he or she a favour.

Your accountant wants to look things over make a few adjustments based

on your consultations, and get the tax return into the tax man.