Maintaining Financial & Operational Information For Your Business

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Maintaining Financial Operational Information
For Your Business
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• If you are new to the business world and have
  recently set up your own company, you may be
  uncertain about various aspects of maintaining
  your financial and operational information, and
  may even be unsure of the role of a bookkeeper in
  helping you to achieve this. Read on to find out
  how a bookkeeper can play an essential role in
  your business
• What role do bookkeepers play in businesses?
• Helping businesses run smoothly is the primary
  role of a bookkeeper, and below are listed some
  of their daily, monthly and annual tasks

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• Track daily transactions
• Bookkeepers are responsible for handling how day
  to day financial transactions are recorded, and
  if you already have accounting software in place,
  then this will aid your bookkeeper greatly.
• Invoice dispatch and accounts receivable
• Client invoices are usually prepared and sent out
  by a bookkeeper, and the accounts receivable
  ledger is predominantly their responsibility,
  too. They often take responsibility for chasing
  late client payments as well, which can relieve a
  good deal of stress from your shoulders!

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• Accounts payable ledger
• Bookkeepers tend to make payments for the
  business, and these can include supplier
  invoices, expenses and petty cash.
• Cashflow
• Business owners should look to their bookkeepers
  for advice on whether the company needs more cash
  to be made readily available, since part of their
  role id to monitor the balance of revenues to
  expenses.

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• Book preparation
• Bookkeepers should work alongside an accountant,
  and it should be their responsibility to provide
  them with valid and updated accounts should the
  accountant require them.
• Bookkeepers are generally responsible for
  upholding many daily aspects of the business to
  help the accountant(s) enabling them to complete
  their role and concentrate on strategic financial
  operations.

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• How can a bookkeeper help your business maintain
  its operational and financial information?
• Below are 5 ways in which a bookkeeper can help
  your business to stay afloat and ideally, help to
  make it a success
• 1.Seeing the bigger picture Bookkeepers are
  responsible for tracking the smaller details of
  your businesses financial operations, and
  entering them into the accounting software. They
  are great at being able to see the bigger picture
  of where your business stands from this data, and
  can often do so far more accurately than you
  would ever be able to.

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• 2.Minimizing accounting costs An accountant
  should not be having to waste their time managing
  daily transactions or payroll employ a
  bookkeeper to fulfil these roles and allow your
  accountant to focus on other more important
  elements of their job.
• 3.Monitoring cashflow One of the primary
  responsibilities of a bookkeeper is to ensure
  that your business never runs out of cash, and in
  employing one, you should never face this issue.

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• 4.Controlling financial data Even if you can only
  afford to employ an accountant on a part time
  basis, if you have the right software in place,
  this should enable your bookkeeper and your
  accountant to work together and give your
  business its best chance of being successful and
  growing, too.
• 5.Keeping your business healthy While the role of
  an accountant in your business is undoubtedly a
  vital one, their job is made far harder without a
  good bookkeeper, and so for the overall health
  and success of your business, its important to
  have both, and to make sure that they work
  harmoniously together.

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• Its rare that a business will ever succeed
  without having a good bookkeeper, and for
  maintaining financial and operational
  information, they are essential. So, if you are
  new to the business world and have not yet
  invested in a bookkeeper, you would be wise to
  research your options without delay.
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