Author: Robley Baynes

Every business needs a bookkeeper. A good one will take care of the day-to-day accounting work and keep your business on track financially. But how do you hire the right bookkeeper? Helping you with the numbers As soon as you start a business, you have to deal with numbers. Every business, no matter how small, must keep a record of its every transaction. That includes sales, expenses, salary payments – in fact every movement of money into and out of your business. Although it's possible to do this yourself, most entrepreneurs aren't trained in bookkeeping. So it's common for businesses to outsource this everyday work. In this guide we'll explain why hiring a bookkeeper is a great idea, or even an essential part of doing business. Then we'll look at how you…

Bookkeepers can help your business with day-to-day accounts – recording sales and other transactions. But they can do a lot more too. So when does it make sense to hire a bookkeeper? The tasks of a bookkeeper A bookkeeper is someone who records the financial transactions of your business. They also: keep track of sales, purchases, payments and receipts work on the design maintenance and review of internal business processes organize, collate and record financial data on a day-to-day basis and store this information in general ledgers record the financial information of your business in a standard way, so that accountants can also access it. In this guide we'll look at what a bookkeeper can do for you, and when you might hire one for your business. Why do you…