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When you have a business, regardless of the size or how much sales you can make each day, maintaining the day to day record of every transaction in the business is crucial. All your business activities connected to your business finance, including each expense and all income received. It pays to have the accounting records up to date and in place. Otherwise, the year end filing could be a nightmare with a big pile of unorganised paperwork on your desk.
To keep your accounts up to date and avoid unorganised paperwork, you have to start managing your day to day financial activities with bookkeeping, from today (If you haven’t already done so)!
Bookkeeping can be done by:
a). Yourself – It’s free to do bookkeeping yourself. However, one can spend up to several hours or even days every month doing bookkeeping record. You need to consider how valuable is your time? Isn’t it wiser to spend time running your business, where your expertise is valuable and outsource your bookkeeping to someone else.
b). Outsource your bookkeeping work to a third party – an accountant firm / qualified bookkeeper. Outsourcing your bookkeeping can get the work done with a quick turn-around time, in a professional and efficient way.
c). Get a bookkeeper to your firm once a week/month – If you don’t have that much of paperwork, get a bookkeeper to your office once a week/month. Maybe you can get this service from your local accountant or search on your own via advertising/internet.
d). Hire a bookkeeper / a bookkeeping team in your company – Preferable if you’re a large firm which have many finance activities each day. Otherwise, the hiring, managing, training, providing office supplies and various questions towards the paperwork would cost your business much more. Also, don’t forget about the cost of paying your bookkeeping team –Employers National Insurance, Tax, general liability insurances, holiday time, sick paid, healthcare insurance and other benefits.
f). Sign up with an online bookkeeping service – This is the fastest and most efficient method. You don’t have to meet the bookkeeper in real life. It saves time and money, yet you get professional and confidential service. All you have to do is sign up with a professional online bookkeeping service, scan your paperwork, email/fax over to your bookkeeper and the online bookkeeper will deliver your bookkeeping record as soon as they finished it.
If you decide to do the bookkeeping yourself, there are a number of accounting software packages which are very handy and efficient, such as:
a). QuickBooks
b). Sage
Ensure that you ask your accountant which accounting software most suits your business and is compatible with their software, so that you can send your bookkeeping records to them for year end accounting.
If you are looking for qualified bookkeeper or an online bookkeeping service, Davies McLennon Chartered Accountants can help you.
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