A state-of-the-art accounting solution for small business, QuickBooks helps you improve the quality, accuracy and efficiency of your bookkeeping. But do you need to hire someone to help your company get QuickBooks set up? According to Tom Beaton of Beaton Accounting, a business accounting firm on Long Island, getting help with QuickBooks is a good idea for any business. Here, he explains some of the advantages of this popular accounting software and why professional setup is the best way to get started.
What’s Involved?
When used properly, Beaton says, QuickBooks can turn your company into a “lean, mean, money-making machine.” The program, he explains, helps you quickly and easily organize all expenses and billing, and allows you to create custom reports that will help you better track your money. Because the system also monitors all inflow and outflow, it makes tax preparation much easier as well.
Beaton Accounting is a Certified QuickBooks® ProAdvisor, which means that the company is officially recognized as having a thorough knowledge of the QuickBooks product and first-hand experience using it to help small businesses improve their accounting practices. QuickBooks setup, as offered by Beaton Accounting, involves getting the software set up specifically for your business. “It’s the best way to get started with the software,” Beaton says. “It gets you up and running so you can focus on running your business.”
Why Do You Need Help?
Setting up QuickBooks properly from the beginning, Beaton explains, can save you a lot of time and energy later on. “We’re often called in to make adjustments to a company’s setup after the fact,” he says. “This is time-consuming for the company owner and can create problems with your bookkeeping. If you do it right to begin with, you’ll have worry-free operation and clean records.”
It’s common, Beaton says, for a business to make a mistake with setup but not realize it until much later. To illustrate the point, Beaton recalls a situation with a client who was concerned about his sales tax liability. Beaton says that when he reviewed the client’s QuickBooks setup, the problem was clear – he simply wasn’t using the system correctly. While he was increasing his sales tax liability each time he made a sale, the client never decreased his liability when the sales tax was paid. Rather than address the problem as soon as he identified it, the client instead waited several months before asking for professional help. “He could have had a million dollars of sales tax liability on his books and never known why,” Beaton says.
Calling in the pros when you begin using QuickBooks is the best way to avoid this frightening scenario, Beaton says. His team of small business professionals and QuickBooks experts offer fast, on-site service designed to ensure that your company is getting the most out of your QuickBooks investment. “As a Certified QuickBooks® ProAdvisor,” Beaton says, “we have the expertise to help your business grow by utilizing the software to its full potential.”
