Why would you use an Outsourced Book keeping Service?

First, when you hear the word outsourced, you are thinking overseas.  Don’t.  Outsourcing book keeping or any other service just means you are not hiring an employee in your business to do the work.  Outsourcing is when you hire someone, or another company, to do the work for you instead.  In the right relationship, you will save time and headaches because you are not hiring, training and replacing a book keeper.

Think about his scenario.  Your company needs part time bookkeeping help.  You place an ad, interview lots of very nice people, get a few final candidates, reinterview those bookkeeper candidates, do a background check (they have access to your financials remember) and then you make an offer to the best candidate and hope they accept.  Then you do the paperwork, set your new part time book keeper up on payroll, begin paying his taxes and start the training process.

Are you done?  No.

Now you have to train that new hire in how to be a Quickbooks Pro.  You might send them to some courses, help them learn about small business tax issues, etc. etc.

At then end of this, hopefully you are happy.  If not, you have to get up the courage to fire them and start over because this is too important of an area to let be sloppy.

For the sake of this article, lets assume you like them and move on.  Now you are very happy with your new part time bookkeeper, but he or she now has a new set of skills and great experience, so they get bored and someone else makes them an offer for more money – and they accept.

Now you have to start all over – and what happens to your book keeping in the time it takes to do this whole process again?  How much money will you lose during the transition?

When you think through this process, it is easy to see that outsourcing bookkeeping to a company is a huge value.  Your CPA may suggest a company but they are usually way overpriced.  A professional bookkeeping company like Dashboard Accounting does nothing but maintain great people and systems in the United States that do book keeping for companies.  There is a good chance Dashboard Accounting can lower your costs, improve your book keeping and eliminate the book keeper churn headache.  Plus they are offering up to 2 free hours of consultation just to see if there is an opportunity.  Why not book your free book keeping assessment today?