I see a lot of posts about a Bookkeeper being a cost but let's reframe it in a more positive way:

Here's a few things I have spotted when I have taken over a set of books
❌ Sales on twice - as Sales invoices and bank deposits - this makes it look like you have sold twice as much - and maybe pay twice as much vat 😫
✖ Costs on twice - as Bills and also expenses paid from the bank - duplicating your expenses and perhaps overclaiming VAT 🙄
❓ If you sell 'stock' ie products then duplicating those sales and purchases will screw up your stock levels
📛 VAT claimed on a car purchase
❌ Wrong vat codes coming through on automatic links like Stripe/Exports
🚷 Payroll - if you only post the net pay then you are understating your true costs
〽 Messing up either Sales, or Costs, or BOTH will really mess up your profit & loss and you cannot be secure in your numbers.

How do we help? Well we have a series of checks and controls that make sure things balance - including
✅ a good old bank reconciliation (bank / stripe / Paypal / savings / credit cards) which highlights duplicated items and missing things.
✅ checking control accounts that then match your HMRC accounts (Paye/VAT/Tax)
✅ checking your customers - always a worry when there is a huge amount outstanding and you think no one owes you
✅ checking your suppliers to make sure you have marked the right bills paid - matching up to statements
✅ running things through an external check like Xenon Connect to spot duplicates
✅ by doing those Bank Rec it 'locks' things so items posted with wrong dates stand out to us (easily done in the Dec/Jan change over time if typing dates in manually)
✅ All of this means a smoother year-end process for you which can be done quickly, to the numbers you have been expecting all year with no nasty surprises.


If your bookkeeper keeps asking you for things there is always a good reason - and it is to help you.
☎ If that sounds like too much hassle, get in touch, and we can do it for you so that you can get back to doing what you love more
-> YOUR BUSINESS 😍