Finding A Bookkeeper For Your Small Business

As a small or medium sized business owner, finding a competent bookkeeper can present significant challenges because:

Most of the major recruitment players are less than ideal as they don’t specialize in part time bookkeepers. You also know that their approach is simply to aggregate the CVs of those candidates who happen to have walked into their offices that week. They forward them and let you make the choice, without any sort of technical vetting. This won’t do, so you would probably look at the following options:

Use the tried and trusted bookkeeper you have been using for ages (if they are still around).

If they can’t do it you ask around your colleagues or Chartered Accountant to see if they know anyone who is available and trustworthy.

Put up an advert online on sites and attempt to find one yourself.

If you do have a trusted bookkeeper and they are free, you should continue to use them and then go back to the large pile of work on your desk, delighted that there is one less thing to do – until they leave that is.

If this trusted person is too now busy to take you on, you may decide to quickly ring around your office to see if there is anybody else up to the job. If they are you will need to get some sort of assurance that they are technically skilled and properly referenced.

If you have drawn a blank on these two, you now face the horror of choosing between doing the bookkeeping yourself or spending hours or days selecting and interviewing.

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