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Answers for the owner of a US small business deciding whether to send the books out: what outsourcing means, what a clean-up costs, how virtual and local bookkeepers differ, what a bookkeeper does each month, how pricing works, and what changes for a nonprofit, a store, a realtor or a trade. Each answer feeds one of the free worksheets on this site.

• Outsourced bookkeeping services: what outsourcing bookkeeping means, how to outsource bookkeeping, and when an outsourced bookkeeper beats hiring one

  What an outsourced bookkeeping engagement contains each month, what changes its price, and how to compare a quote with an employee on your own figures.

• Accounting clean up: what catch-up bookkeeping involves, how it is priced apart from the monthly fee, and how to size the backlog

  What a bookkeeping clean-up actually does, why it is priced as a one-off, and how to estimate the hours from the months behind and your transaction counts.

• Small business bookkeeping service: choosing a bookkeeping service for small business, what bookkeeping services for small businesses include, and where bookkeeper services for small business differ from small business bookkeepers hired direct

  How to choose a bookkeeping service as a small business: what the scope should contain, what tiers hide, and how to price a quote from your counts.

• Virtual bookkeeper: what is virtual bookkeeping, how the handover works when nobody visits, and how a virtual bookkeeper compares with a local one

  What a virtual bookkeeper does, how the remote handover works, what to check on access, and how to price a virtual quote against a local one.

• Professional bookkeeping services: bookkeeping firm or individual, what accounting bookkeepers add, and what bookkeeping services offered actually means on a quote

  A bookkeeping firm against an individual, what a professional engagement includes, and how to read a services-offered list against your scope.

• Bookkeeping help: do i need a bookkeeper for my small business, and where to get bookkeeping help for small business without buying more than you need

  How to tell whether your small business needs a bookkeeper yet, the alternatives, and how to cost the decision on your own hours.

• Accounting bookkeeping service: what an accounting and bookkeeping service, accounting & bookkeeping services and bookkeeping & accounting services actually cover, and how accounting and bookkeeping services for small businesses are priced

  What a combined accounting and bookkeeping service includes, how to split the quote into its two halves, and who does the monthly work.

• Find a bookkeeper: where to look, what to ask before signing, and how to compare the answers on your own scope

  Where small business owners find bookkeepers, the seven questions to ask before signing, and how to compare candidates on your real scope.

• Bookkeeper vs CPA: what each one does for a small business, when you need both, and what each should cost you

  Bookkeeper and CPA for a small business owner: who does what, when you need one or both, and how to avoid paying CPA rates for bookkeeping.

• Bookkeeper service: what a bookkeeper service includes each month, and the bookkeeper duties small business owners can expect to see done

  The monthly duties a bookkeeper service performs for a small business, in the order they happen, and what each one produces for the owner.

• Bookkeeping pricing: bookkeeping services fees, what a bookkeeping services price list should show, pricing for bookkeeping services by the hour or the month, and what moves the figure

  How bookkeeping is priced: hourly, monthly and tiered, what a price list should show, what moves the fee, and how to test a quote on your counts.

• Affordable bookkeeping services: what the low-cost end of the market includes, what it leaves out, and how to make any service cheaper by changing the handover

  What low-cost bookkeeping services include, where the money is saved, what to check before buying, and how to make any engagement cheaper.

• Startup accounting services: what a startup needs from bookkeeping before it has a finance team, and what it does not need yet

  What a startup should buy from an accounting or bookkeeping service in its first years, what investors and the IRS will ask for, and what can wait.

• Bookkeeping pricing calculator: how the bookkeeping price calculator and bookkeeping calculator on this site turn your counts into a monthly fee, and what to change

  How the free bookkeeping pricing calculator turns your counts and a quoted rate into a monthly fee, what each input means, and how to read it.

• Realtor bookkeeping: commission splits, referral fees, escrow and trust money, and what a bookkeeper needs from a real estate agent each month

  What makes a real estate agent's books different: commissions net of splits, costs by deal, money that is never yours, and the handover.

• Bookkeeping for electricians: job costing, parts and materials, progress billing and retainage, and what a bookkeeper needs from an electrical contractor each month

  What makes an electrical contractor's books different: parts and labour by job, progress billing, deposits and retainage, and the handover.

• Ecommerce bookkeeping services: what an ecommerce bookkeeper reconciles that a general one does not, and how to choose a service for an online store

  Choosing a bookkeeping service for an online store: settlement reconciliation, marketplace fees and tax, cost of sales, and the questions to ask.

• Bookkeeping pricing packages: what the usual bookkeeping price packages contain at each tier, where the steps are, and how to tell which tier your business is really in

  How tiered bookkeeping packages are built, what each tier includes and excludes, where the price steps are, and which tier you are really in.