I recently received a phone call from a potential new client that left me baffled.

The question that threw me was “I have been recommended to give you a call but tell me why do I need you? I am pretty certain I can do things myself.”. My initial reaction was well, all good then, you can continue doing so. Then I realized that it was an opportunity for me to explain why he indeed needed our help.

We are all running out of time in our day to day lives to keep up to date with our books. The government is facilitating this through the Digital Adaption Program.

This program provides $1200 rebates so small business can access a range of digital business tools. This enables the business owner to be more efficient and have systems that help them monitor and grow their business, this a great help.

This month’s subject is about something that I am very passionate about, outsourcing! For most of you when I say outsourcing what comes to your mind? Too hard, not for me, it’s alright I guess but you I must be super organised.

Providing bookkeeping services for an outsourced company myself, I had mixed feelings about it and I thought some tasks, but not all things could be outsourced. Then I came across one of my clients who runs a multi-million dollar company on his own.

I am going to steer away from the normal bookkeeping blogs and write about an experience I had recently with a close friend of mine. As a bookkeeper, I often hear of the challenges that people have maintaining financial discipline. I realise that some of you have never had this issue and find it very easy to put money aside for tough times however others struggle to do so.

A Bookkeeper's role has significantly changed in recent years. Bookkeepers once simply entered numbers in ledgers and passed the accounts over to Accountants to finish the job and do the Tax Returns. Today, Bookkeepers are an integral part of every business. They provide great support to the business owners.