Searle Services is founded upon the timeless values of integrity, hard work, and valuing others.
We make life simpler and easier for our clients by providing consistent, clear bookkeeping to help them have more time for their personal lives and their business, decrease stress, especially around tax time, and provide a clear snapshot of the health of their business to make financial and investment decisions and to catch issues early.
Whether you need limited assistance or you just want the bookkeeping headache to go away, Searle Services is ready to make your life a little easier. Contact us today!
Why hire a bookkeeper?
I’m so glad you asked! When I started my first business, I definitely thought the same thing. And I did well enough, but I could have done better if I had trained prior to keeping my accounts. Here are some of the top reasons businesses hire bookkeepers.
Bookkeepers are much cheaper than a CPA
Some businesses only use a CPA to manage their books. Bookkeepers charge less than a CPA. Having a CPA do your bookkeeping is a very expensive proposition, and often, the CPA will just pay a traditional bookkeeper in the office to do the actual bookkeeping.
Tax time is clearer
CPAs will do one of two things: they will either use numbers you give them to file taxes and not check the accuracy (leaving any tax headaches to you) or they will spend time making the numbers correct for taxes (costing you a lot more money). Routine bookkeeping will reduce tax-time stress and cost.
You’ll know where you are going
50 years ago, if you got lost you would stop by a gas station (or elsewhere) for directions. If you are like me, you would have to stop several times to clarify. Today, many of us, even the most directionally challenged, have no issue venturing forth into new areas with the help of our handy GPS, which will recalculate and give us a visual map of where we have been and where we are going.
Bookkeeping is your GPS. If you just rely on tax returns (gas stations), you will be less sure of your progress and often lose your way more often than if you had the guidance of regular bookkeeping to tell you what is working, and what is not, to help you make the best and most informed decisions for your business.
You can track cash flow more efficiently
Tight cash flow is stifling to businesses, as is too much cash stored that could be invested. Finding the right balance is essential to provide both growth and security for your business. But you already know how much money you have, so why a bookkeeper? Bookkeepers can help you look for patterns and behaviors behind your income and expenses so that you can proactively manage your business, rather than manage it reactively.