Are you behind on your books? Losing track of your expenses? Do you need someone who can help you file your taxes and stay compliant? 

A small business bookkeeper or bookkeeping service can support you with everything from simple bookkeeping to offering more in-depth tax filing services and business consulting. A skilled bookkeeper will save you time and money, set you up with systems that will simplify running a small business, keep you tax compliant and ready, and ensure you are always in-the-know when it comes to your financials.

Save time

Whether you’re filing your taxes or just doing simple data entry, it is incredibly easy to make mistakes when you aren’t a professional bookkeeper and these mistakes can cost you a lot of time. When it comes time to speak with a lender, make a big decision, prepare your taxes, or just wrap up your monthly reconciliation you might end up having to undo an entire month’s worth of data entry – or likely even more due to one little mistake. One simple slip-up in your books can have a huge ripple effect and cost a busy business owner like you a massive amount of time that would be better spent elsewhere.

Save money

Small business bookkeepers and bookkeeping services can save small businesses money in many different ways. Since one simple slip-up in bookkeeping can have a huge ripple effect and cost you a massive amount of time as you try to fix your problems – you know you’ll be saving money by trusting a professional with your books from the start. A very popular option with small businesses is an accounting service that charges a fixed amount every month. It’s easy to budget for, and it can cost less than half what you would pay an hourly accountant for the same amount of service.

Xendoo bookkeeping service plans come with a dedicated team of bookkeepers who are committed to helping you grow your business. Xendoo offers a variety of packages because we know not all business owners are created equal, so you can choose the package that works best for you and your business. A great place to start is the Hustle plan – it’s made for self-employed small business owners like you and starts at $195/mo. You’ll get expert bookkeeping and on-time financials – and you won’t stay up at night worrying about catching up.

Gather Information

Bookkeepers can help you with the big picture aspects of running a small business, such as reviewing options for how to finance your business. Whether it’s how to apply for loans and which ones to apply for in the first place, to exploring options for lines of credit, bookkeepers can help you navigate how to grow your business. Big picture bookkeeping services can include financial analysis, tax reporting, year-end tax projections, and so much more. 

Keep you up-to-date

When you don’t have up-to-date books during the year, you can’t use monthly or quarterly financial statements to guide your business decisions.

One of the most essential services a bookkeeper can provide for a business owner is to keep the company’s books accurate and up-to-date. Being able to quickly and easily review the status of your finances is crucial to short and long-term success for any business owner. When you know the health of your finances, you can make decisions quicker concerning everything from who to hire next, to what marketing strategy recently worked best. It truly informs all aspects of a healthy business. 

There’s no need to play catch up when you have a professional bookkeeper keeping you up-to-date every step of the way!

Keep you organized

A small business bookkeeper helps everyone stay organized. They help you categorize expenses correctly, reconcile your accounts, and even help you keep your business and personal accounts separate. In small businesses especially, you’ll often see bookkeepers paying bills, cutting checks to employees, invoicing clients, and making deposits. Just like a small business owner, a small business bookkeeper wears many hats!

Xendoo will keep you organized – we provide on-time monthly reports and data for your business. You’ll receive monthly balance sheets and profit and loss statements that you can easily access from your desktop or mobile, as well as weekly reconciliations so you have clear visibility of your business’s financial health.

Payroll

A small business bookkeeper can save you time and money by managing your business’s payroll – and many choose to use online payroll services such as Gusto. With Gusto, you can schedule payroll to run automatically each pay period, and even reimburse employees for out-of-pocket expenses at the same time. They take care of all the employee management involved in payroll, too, like setting up direct deposit, online onboarding, digital paystubs, and tracking vacation and sick time management.

Financial reports

Small business owners who have access to up-to-date financial statements are more confident and quick in their decision-making. Every kind of decision, from what kind of inventory and equipment to invest in, to who to hire next, is made easier when you have a recent profit and loss statement and balance sheet in hand.

As you grow you may want to borrow money or open a line of credit. Your lender will want accurate financial statements, and ideally, you aren’t scrambling to create them right then and there. With a professional bookkeeper on your side, you can quickly access all financial statements necessary as soon as you need them.

A small business bookkeeper can help you report sales taxes on time with a system that accurately tracks sales amounts, so you don’t accidentally overstate your sales and remit too much sales tax – a surprisingly common error that bookkeepers can prevent.

File your returns

A small business bookkeeper will set up a tax recording system for you and submit government reports – like employee tax and sales tax – making it simple for an accountant to regularly file your returns.

Work with accountants

Bookkeepers focus on the everyday tasks that maintain your business’s finances while accountants consider the big picture strategy needed to keep your business strong and growing. Understanding the difference between bookkeeping and accounting is crucial as they play complementary but distinct roles in the business environment.

Accountants can answer your questions about financial reports, cash flow, depreciation, and more. They can give tax savings advice, such as when to make capital purchases, what you can deduct, and how to reduce taxes on capital gains. They can identify opportunities to improve profit margin and business growth and keep you legal – preventing missed deadlines and noncompliance penalties.

Working with an accountant can be complicated, confusing, and expensive – but bookkeepers make it easy and save you money by being an efficient and knowledgeable partner for the accountant to work with.

Xendoo offers a dedicated bookkeeper that keeps monthly books up to date, plus you also have access to a CPA and an accountant. This allows us to offer tax consulting and yearly planning to all Xendoo customers.

Overall, contributing to the success of your small business

Every aspect of a company is affected by its finances, so having a clear and accurate picture of these records is key to a company’s health and success. Properly managing and organizing your small-business finances and operations will help ensure that you are hitting your profit goals, staying legally compliant, and will overall contribute to the success of your business. 

Final

Hiring a small business bookkeeper or bookkeeping service like Xendoo will keep your books organized and accurate so you always have easy access to the most up-to-date 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 the parts that you do best – or even taking a day off!