4 Benefits of forming an external partnership for Bookkeeping for your business

Processing and maintaining your company’s books can be time consuming, confusing and downright frustrating. With many business owners either having to spend their free time categorising and reconciling their accounts or going through the struggle and expense of hiring and training an employee to handle the day-to-day tasks. This has led to a growing trend of businesses utilising the expertise of outsourced bookkeepers.

Through the rise of remote working and increases in technology, outsourced bookkeeping has the potential to save companies time and money.

Benefits of forming an external partnership for bookkeeping

Accurate and timely figures

Knowing and understanding the financial position of your business is critical. Especially in the current economic climate where costs are constantly increasing, being across your bottom line and cash flow is imperative. How can you pivot or make changes to increase your profitability and cashflow without knowing where your business currently stands. Outsourcing your bookkeeping to the team at PT ignite working with you, means you have a dedicated person with a team to back them up that is regularly working on your business and keeping it up to date, and not having to worry when people go on holidays.

Specialised skill set

Let’s face it unless you run an accounting or bookkeeping business, maintaining your business’ books isn’t generally where your skills lie. Your skills are in whatever business or industry you operate in. A bookkeeper is a specially trained person whose expertise is in bookkeeping or accounting. By utilising an outsourced bookkeeper, you are receiving expert advice and assistance.

OUR bookkeeping team are professionally trained, this means you can tap into a wealth of knowledge. Knowledge is power, and it enables you to make accurate and correct decisions.

Employment Savings

A consistent challenge for many businesses is searching for and hiring new staff members. It is a process that can be both time and cost heavy. This doesn’t include the time and money that is required to onboard and train a new staff member once they are successfully hired. If you Outsource your bookkeeping it can reduce the number of administration staff you require in your business, therefore directly impacting your bottom line.

Time Savings

Our world is getting busier and busier, and trying to get the balance between work and life is an ever-present challenge. You are working hard every day to ensure your business is the success you want it to be and the last thing you want to do after a hard day’s work (or on the weekend when you should be out enjoying time with your family!) is bookwork. The benefit of an outsourcing your bookkeeping is that they can work on your business while you are busy working in your business. You can be running your business, and, in the background, they can oversee reconciling your accounts, chasing your debtors, making payments or even processing your payroll.

If forming an external partnership for bookkeeping sounds like viable option for your business or if you just wish to learn more, contact the team at PT Ignite for more information.