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A bookkeeper is vital to making a company function because the basis for every decision made is based on its finances. This is why many companies are willing to pay a premium rate for bookkeeping because of its necessity. However, there are companies that don’t have enough work to hire a bookkeeper employee so they choose to get a freelance bookkeeper. Read the rest of this entry »

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If there is one lesson that I have learned well as a freelance bookkeeper, it is this…if you don’t backup your accounting data, you might as well hang up your shingle.

I’ve always been one to do weekly backups and this practice has rewarded me time and time again. I’ve found that hard drives and motherboards are notorious for frying out, even when a computer is fairly new.

I’ve even had several hard drive failures on the same computer. I’ve always had backups of my essential accounting and administration files so this has never resulted in a major problem. The computer techiess were always able to restore all of my data so the only thing I lost was the down time in having my computer in the shop. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you’re a freelance bookkeeper who is building your bookkeeping business, there are certain clients that you need to avoid to save yourself from constant stress. These are the clients who either:

1) don’t pay their bills,

2) have years worth of paperwork in boxes and

3) who are too difficult to work with.

I’ll go into further detail on each of these types of clients and give you strategies to help deal with them. Read the rest of this entry »

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Did you know that most freelance bookkeepers are making between $20 to $50 per hour? What….you’re not earning that much yet? Keep reading and I’ll tell you how you can. Read the rest of this entry »

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