jeudi 3 janvier 2019

Useful Guidelines For Being A Good Small Business Bookkeeper

By Paul Martin


Bookkeeping entails many activities ranging from making payments, managing books of accounts to the preparation of financial statements. All these activities must be carried out with a lot of due diligence because a small error that will occur has a great impact on the business. Small business bookkeeper ensures that there is positive progress in the business by carrying out the above-mentioned duties.

Many small business owners waste a lot of time during auditing due to poor record keeping of their books of accounts. Auditors will take a lot of time verifying the records. Most managers collude with the accountants to embezzle money and manipulate their ways when entering transactions and keeping records on the expenditure.

Auditors always work to prove that you are wrong and you cannot edit this unless your books of accounts set you free. To prove to them that you were recording everything well it is good to maintain and enter everything well and as it is in the financial statement. This will make the auditors allow your transaction rather than rejecting it.

It is advisable for business owners to obey the tax rules like timely filing of returns. Many business owners are currently being penalized as a result of failure to file returns or submission of wrong information about the company's financial status to the tax authority. Bookkeepers must ensure that timely filing and accurate information submitted to the authority to avoid such penalties.

Record keeping matters a lot in the impression of the company. Accountants must ensure that the is proper handling of customer files. This will make it easy to retrieve in future in case of an issue. When customers realize that their records are well kept, the reputation of the business will be high and more customers will be attracted. Financial lenders are also interested and keen with the way a company is keeping its records.

The environment in which accountants operate is so sensitive in that a small mistake has a huge impact on the company. Because of this, an accountant must be customer-centric. He must have all the information about the business. He must also understand the customers in detail. He must make sure and apply all the skills needed to satisfy the customer. By providing them with valuable information, the company will attract more clients.

Some factors need to be considered also during recruitment of accountants. This includes the moral of the candidate, integrity, and ethics. The accountant should be morally upright. He should also observe ethics when interacting with people and clients in the course and of their work and also outside the office. This will create a good picture of the organization and DC more customers will come to the firm.

The current technology has made the work of accountants to run smoothly and easily. The only challenge that faces accountants is to become creative and employ new tactics when handling the money. This ed y should be creative enough to make sure that any difficult situation is self without affecting the firm in any way. They should account for cash in and cash out. W hen this is done each and every coin will be channeled towards the objective of the company and chances of losing occurrence will be limited. Misuse of funds will also be minimal.




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