06/17/2021
An accounting colleague and I were discussing how many leads we come across for bookkeeping where the owner is looking for someone who can do both bookkeeping AND social media marketing. Or, bookkeeping AND misc. admin or mailing lists.
I get it, an admin person is an admin person. Or are they?
I say no. When you look for someone (*cough* like me) who only does bookkeeping or business management, you get an expert who knows how to get through your financial processes efficiently.
And, I know where to look - what reports to run, how to explain them, where the errors are - if you wonder where all the cash went each month, exactly how much money your company is making, if bills are getting paid on time, if clients are being invoiced and paying on time, etc.
Same principle with managing advertising or mailers or answering the phone and other admin tasks. They are better at what they do because they do it all day every day, and they're good at it!
Multi-purpose employees seem like a good idea at first, but as business owners, we understand that ya can't be good at
everything. Neither is your help.
It can also be far more efficient financially to hire two separate contractors rather than one who is just OK. They may take more time to complete tasks or be ineffective at seeing the bigger financial picture.
We bookkeepers and accounting professionals love to open up our nerdly financial tracking wheelhouse so the wheels don't fall off your company!
Feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected] and we can set aside time to chat about your needs.
