Bookkeeping services involve storing, recording and retrieving financial transactions. Bookkeeping is an essential financial service for individuals, charities and businesses. Bookkeepers prepare financial reports for clients, record and organize receipts, pay vendors and suppliers and oversee accounts receivable. They also take care of billing, recording and verifying invoices and handling employee pay.

Individuals, non-profit groups and businesses seek bookkeeping services a number of ways. Some use software or learn bookkeeping themselves. Unfortunately, this can produce bookkeeping errors and inaccuracies, sometimes leading to audits and lost business opportunities. Other organizations will hire an in-house bookkeeper to handle finances with a lower risk of mistakes. But this can be costly.

In addition to hiring someone full time or trying to handle bookkeeping yourself, you also have the choice of selecting an outsourced QuickBooks accounting service. Working with an outsourced bookkeeper offers many benefits, including: