4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Bookkeeper

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Thought of the day: time is money.

As your business grows, investing in a bookkeeper can help you with simple bookkeeping services, as well as prevent your business from running out of cash. A skilled bookkeeper will help save you time and money, and allow you to focus on the daily operations of your business.

The benefits of hiring a bookkeeper extend to almost every part of your business. In fact, it’s a decision you can’t afford NOT to make. Here are four reasons why you need a bookkeeper:

1.   Save Time

As a business owner, you may find that “free time” is not exactly a word in your vocabulary. Investing in a bookkeeper is efficient, as well as cost effective. Paying a bookkeeper to keep your books up-to-date means less back work is needed by you to get your documents ready.

Spend more time focusing on growing your business and leave the tedious bookkeeping to a bookkeeper. This will allow you to maximize your time, while the bookkeeper maximizes your financial wealth.

2.    Save Money

As we said earlier, time is money. And by saving time with a bookkeeper, you are saving your business money as well. Even one small slip-up in your bookkeeping can be costly. By investing in a professional bookkeeper, your business will be saving money from the get-go. Allow experts to handle your bookkeeping to best ensure accuracy; as software and 3rd party cloud systems are not always fail-safe.

Additionally, bookkeepers can help you with your business’ budget. They will organize your income and expenses correctly – which will help you plan for future business expenses and better anticipate and allocate costs.

3.   Stay Organized

Keeping your business organized is crucial to the overall welfare of your company. Generally, there are five different parties that will be interested in your business’ financial records – the IRS, your employees, customers, investors, and lenders. You should be able to provide the information to the requested parties to ensure continued successful operations. Bookkeepers will help keep your financial records organized, so that you can easily locate information and provide it to the appropriate parties.

Additionally, bookkeepers will help you with:

  • General ledger updates
  • Bank and credit card reconciliation
  • Accounts payable and receivable
  • Generate income statements
  • Payroll reports

4.   Better Cash Flow

We mentioned earlier that a bookkeeper can help your business from running out of cash. A bookkeeper will categorize your business’ spending and label them as revenues, expenses, liabilities, receivables, etc. This will allow you to see if there are any outstanding balances and in which period they occurred. This can greatly improve your business processes and positively impact your cash flow.

Hiring a bookkeeper or bookkeeping service will keep your books organized and accurate. Your business will also have access to the most current information on your company’s finances. It is invaluable to your business to have the administrative details taken care of, so you can focus on running your business and doing what you do best. Semaphore provides top rated bookkeeping solutions in Irvine, Anaheim, Santa Ana, and the Orange County area. Reach out today if you want to streamline your operations with our bookkeeping services.

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