Can Anybody Be A Bookkeeper?

By Sue Whyte


Isn?t book-keeping just plugging 1 or 2 figures into a computer programme?

In short, NO!

It never fails to astonish me what number of people out there and in business think that all bookkeepers do is enter figures into a P. C. programme which then magically spits out a perfect set of accounts.

Hmm, if only!!

Book keeping, or in a sense good bookkeeping, is a load more concerned than just pumping numbers into a program and it is an ill-judged a real long shot concept that bookkeepers are just glorified data entry operators! Good bookkeepers will be a useful asset to your business. Good bookkeepers know the way to enter figures into a PC program properly, or write up a ledger, but more importantly, they know exactly where and how those figures should be entered.

Trying to disentangle a mess that a non-bookkeeper has made is a lengthy thing! It?s something that we at Bookkeeper?s Base do all the time. Unfortunately for many entrepreneurs it isn?t until a they're in a state of despair because they haven't any idea of what is going on in their business.

Seem all too familiar??

Personally, it gives me and my team a great feeling of satisfaction to be well placed to take a complete information entry mess and turn it into a neat, clean and accurate set of accounts. However , with any service which adds some value it comes with a financial investment, and to my mind, it's an investment worth making and sadly (hindsight being 20/20) one that would have been better spent in contracting a bookkeeper from the word go and not having a untidy situation in the first instance. It?s no coincidence that once a business has engaged a professional bookkeeper and has easy to read profit & loss statements as well as a real understanding of how their money is being utilised , that these business owners become firm changes to using a bookkeeper.

Think about a bookkeeper as you would an accountant. A bookkeeper will aid you with your business and will make your accountant?s job much easier.

You wouldn?t get your office aid to do your tax return for you, so why would you let them run blindfolded with the money information that goes into it?

Contact a real Perth bookkeeper and get your book keeping done professionally.




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