Free bookkeeping tools

free tools on this site

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figures they ask you for

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answers they give back

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What does a bookkeeper do each month: the scope sheet, on the worked example

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These are the three sheets a bookkeeping quote is checked against. The scope sheet turns your counts into the hours a month a bookkeeper spends coding, reconciling, invoicing and reporting. The pricing calculator turns those hours into a monthly fee at the quoted rate, so a flat-rate proposal can be compared with what it implies per hour. The hiring sheet costs an employed bookkeeper, on-costs and software included, against the outsourced quote. Each one shows its workings, so you can argue with the figure rather than trust it.

The record-keeping periods these pages cite are the IRS's published figures; every fee, hour and rate is arithmetic on the numbers you typed, and no figure on this site is a published national price for bookkeeping, because there is none.