Tuesday 6 August 2013

Tired of managing your accounts books yourself?

If you are a business owner, you are probably tired of managing your books of accounts yourself. There are several things that you would have to do as a business owner – you have to meet with your clients, stakeholders, work with your staff to get things done – and bookkeeping is at the end of that list. True, bookkeeping is not exactly the most interesting task in the world, but it is important to do this so that your books of accounts are in order and ready by the end of the year for tax season. Otherwise, you are going to have to pay a heavy price in terms of penalty. 

If you are thinking of alternatives to managing your books yourself, the first that probably occurs to you is to find an in-house bookkeeper. It would be great to hire someone else just for this as it is like a huge weight off your shoulder – but then you end up having to pay a fortune for the bookkeeper’s salary. Apart from his salary, there are other overhead costs such as office stationary, computer, software installation, hiring and training and so on. We are talking about a lot of money here. If you are okay with spending so much, you can go ahead, but honestly, is it worth all the trouble?

You could at least look at other alternatives, the best of all being, outsourcing. Yes. If you outsource your bookkeeping to professionals in countries like India, you get unbelievable rates. It is really a win-win situation because of the difference in currency rates. They are happy, you are happy. The only thing you need to wary of is data-security measures. Make sure they have taken efforts such as 24/7 surveillance, privacy policies with employee etc, to protect your data. Once you select the right outsourcing partner, bookkeeping is nothing to worry about. Your accounts would be updated and prepared while you sleep. Give bookkeeping outsourcing a try, you have nothing to lose.

1 comment:

  1. I agree, hiring an outsourced bookkeeping will free you of hassles awaiting in your accounting department which from time to time has been having poor performance. It will be ideal to invest one than venture on hiring an in-house staff.

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