✅ Why Every Business Owner Should Have a Proper Bookkeeper
Running a business is hard enough, you’re managing customers, sales, operations, employees, and about a hundred unexpected fires a week. The last thing you should be doing is scrambling through receipts, guessing your expenses, or trying to make sense of a messy spreadsheet at tax time.
A proper bookkeeper solves all of that.
1️⃣ Accurate Books = Accurate Taxes (and Lower Taxes)
When your financials are clean and categorized correctly, your accountant can actually do their job.
A proper bookkeeper ensures:
* Every deduction is captured
* No income is missed
* No receipts are lost
* No numbers are guessed
Clean books directly lead to lower tax bills, fewer errors, and less risk of IRS issues. Below is an example of Apple’s balance sheet. If you can prepare this, we will hire you.
But 9/10 business owners don't have a proper balance sheet because most do not hire proper book keepers. If you ever get audited, the first thing the IRS asks for is your accountant records.
Which are your balance sheet, profit & loss statement and general ledger. These are the 3 key documents that book keepers update every month for you. So you can focus on the business, while we focus on keeping accurate books for you.
2️⃣ Better Decisions Require Better Numbers
You can’t run a business off vibes and bank account balances.
With proper bookkeeping, you get:
* Real profit and loss
* Clear cash flow
* Actual margins
* Spending trends
* Monthly growth snapshots
Good numbers = good decisions.
Bad or missing numbers = blind decision-making.
You are running your business and most business owners can back off the napkin knowing roughly how much they are making. But let me ask you, what was your profit or loss for last month? Is it an answer that sounds like a question? More than likely, yet with proper book keeping, you know that answer down to the penny.
3️⃣ Saves You Time (and Sanity)
Bookkeeping is time-consuming and tedious.
A business owner’s time is worth way more when spent on:
* Sales
* Service
* Strategy
* Growth
Not manually entering a year's worth of transactions a day before the deadline. Our clients know every quarter they number down to the penny. They sound countless hours each month to focus on what matters most. While saving thousands at tax time with proper accounting records. While sleeping peacefully at night knowing that if the IRS ever came knocking, they are prepared.
A bookkeeper turns hours of stress into hands-off relief.
4️⃣ Prevents Costly Mistakes
Improper or delayed bookkeeping leads to:
* Overpaying taxes
* IRS penalties
* Missed write-offs
* Cash flow shortages
* Incorrect payroll
* Inability to apply for loans
Mistakes in books compound like interest, but in a bad way.
5️⃣ Essential for Loans, Credit, and Scaling
Banks, lenders, and investors don’t care about your verbal explanation, they want financial statements.
A bookkeeper prepares:
* Profit & Loss
* Balance Sheet
* Cash Flow
* Clean transaction history
Without proper books, you can’t borrow, scale, or even sell the business someday.
6️⃣ Peace of Mind
Instead of wondering:
“Did I pay that?”
“Did I categorize this right?”
“Am I missing something for taxes?”
“Why is my accountant emailing me for the same documents again?”
You get the comfort of knowing everything is organized, updated, and handled professionally.
7️⃣ It Actually Saves You More Money Than It Costs
Most business owners who avoid bookkeeping think they’re “saving money.”
In reality, it usually costs them thousands:
* Missed deductions
* Cleaning up chaotic books at year-end
* Paying higher taxes due to poor documentation
* Wasting time on manual work
* Incorrect financial decisions
Now you might be wondering how much is this going to cost me? As the average full time book keeper starting salary is around $60,000. Given that you do not need a full time book keeper, we are able to remotely handle all of your book keeping needs for a fraction of the cost. If your business is doing under $500,000 in revenue, it would only cost around $3,000 a year for proper book keeping.
Starter Plan Under $500K Revenue.......$249/Month
$500k to $1M Revenue.........................$399/Month
$1M to $4M Revenue...........................$699/Month
$4M to $8M Revenue...........................$999/Month
$8M+ Revenue....................................$1,999/Month
That small investment in a bookkeeper is an investment that pays for itself, and then some. You have the time saved from preparing incorrect books on your own. You have a team that is preparing your financial documents for you. You know that god forbid there is ever an audit, you are ready to reply the same day with the documents the IRS will ask for. Lastly, it's a tax deduction for the business, which pays for itself even more by lowering your taxes owed at the end of the year.
🟢 The Bottom Line:
A proper bookkeeper is the backbone of a financially healthy business.
They save you money, reduce stress, improve decision-making, and keep your business IRS-ready and growth-ready.
When you have a book keeping, all you have to do is once a month email us your bank and credit card statement. That is it, we handle the rest, then we send you the updated financials.
Book keeping isn’t a should I or shouldn't question for any real business owner. Why haven’t I started this years ago? Is often the question we hear from clients after they start to use us for proper bookkeeping.
Let us prepare your books for you and if you can provide a profit and loss statement that is within $1,000 of our results, we will prepare your books for free this year.
Click here to set a call to learn more and get a quote for the book keeping costs for your business today!
Bennett Zamani
Partners at Tax Experts LLC
Call/Text (201) 681-5633
