Bookkeeping Service Business
~ Characteristics of a Good Bookkeeper
Before we start talking about a bookkeeping business let's
distinguish between a bookkeeper and an accountant. A lot of
people interchange the words bookkeeper and accountant often
times not realizing they are two different things. In reality
they are two very different things.
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For the most part, a bookkeeper doesn't have a college degree in
accounting where as an accountant does. A bookkeeper does more
basic type duties such as data entering. This can include things
like creating and mailing invoices to the customer, entering
bills, paying bills and processing payroll data.
An accountant is going to handle the more detailed oriented type
tasks. They will take care of handling expenses that have
occurred but haven’t been entered by the bookkeeper. These
entries will need to be adjusted by the accountant. An example
of something like this would be bank loans (interest that has
incurred since the last payment). Another example would be money
earned (wages) by the employees of a company that will be paid
next week. It could also include things like miscellaneous
expenses, etc. There’s several different things. The other
important aspect that the accountant will do that the bookkeeper
doesn’t is they will prepare financial statements and work with
upper management on understanding these things.
Now that we have distinguished a bookkeeper and an accountant
let’s talk about a bookkeeping business and what makes a good
bookkeeper. Here are five characteristics that a good bookkeeper
should possess.
*Enjoys working with numbers
*Detail oriented
*Time Management skills
*Familiar with current technology
*Analytical
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