Does your small business need a bookeeper/accountant?
I am 22, live in Iowa and want to start my own business. I am currently working a full time job which I have had for 3 years and want to do something more. I have always wanted to have an accounting business on the side. I am very good with QuickBooks and Microsoft Office.
Any suggestions on how to find small business needing this type of work would be most helpful.
It would only be a part time job for now, and depending on how much work there is would depend on my rate.
All businesses need at the very least a bookkeeper and also the services of an accountant. If you are a licensed accountant you could open an accounting business. If you're not, you could open a bookkeeping business. Your best bet would be to advertise in a business/investment expo, yellow pages. Try and network with small business owners around your area and tell them what you can do for them, as far as bookkeeping goes.
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All businesses need at the very least a bookkeeper and also the services of an accountant. If you are a licensed accountant you could open an accounting business. If you're not, you could open a bookkeeping business. Your best bet would be to advertise in a business/investment expo, yellow pages. Try and network with small business owners around your area and tell them what you can do for them, as far as bookkeeping goes.
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The answer to your first question is YES!!!!
As the owner of a small business, the books are the hardest part of the job. Accounting is the only job that I know of where 3+2 does not equal 5. It equals 1.5+1 in this category and 1+0.5 in another and 1+1 in yet another. In the end, you total 6.
Are you a bookkeeper in your current job? If so, put an ad in your local paper(s), especially the free local weekly ones. Second, join your local Chamber of Commerce. Go to all of their meetings and pass out business cards.
The biggest problem that I have is accountants want too much money for the job (>$80/hr) and the bookkeepers want fulltime (>40hours/week) jobs. It takes me about 20hours a week, I figure a good bookkeeper can do it in 10. But I can't afford to pay an accountant $800/week to do that.
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Small Business owner who really wishes he could find a relatively inexpensive bookkeeper to outsource to.