Then a bookkeeping service may be the business for you. The best clients are small businesses that are too big and too busy to take care of the bookkeeping themselves and yet too small to hire someone full time to take care of it. Also, you can approach CPA firms, financial planners, and larger bookkeeping firms for referrals or overload clients.
Accountants provide feedback and advice as well as track the money.
Instead, they add and subtract income and expenses, make deposits, reconcile bank statements, handle the payroll, do billing, and prepare reports. To be a bookkeeper, you should have an understanding of bookkeeping as well as current tax laws and procedures. You should be able to use spreadsheet or bookkeeping software. Attention to details is a must as well as honesty particularly if a client asks you to hide details about his finances. Take care of businesses start-up requirements such as creating a business and marketing plan, and getting permits and licenses.