Now you can learn how to setup and operate your bookkeeping business quickly and efficiently. "Secrets to Starting & Running Your Own Bookkeeping Business" will show you all the inside secrets that only experienced freelance bookkeepers know. You'll learn how to: * Choose the right equipment, even if you have a low or non-existent start-up budget. * Find good clients who not only suit your skill level but will pay your invoices on time. * Setup your rates so that you'll know exactly how much you'll be making each month. * Establish boundaries so that you're not working 24/7. * Transition out of your full time job and work your way into freelance bookkeeping. * Setup essential office systems to help you keep yourself and your client paperwork organized. * Market your business and find clients quickly.

In tough economic times and with rising unemployment, people are looking to take the bull by the horns and start their own home-based businesses.... From GPP's enormously successful How to Start a Home-Based Business series (more than half a million copies sold!), comes the essential guide to starting up a home-based Bookkeeping business.

This book is a genuine resource, packed with proven methods and valuable interviews with real bookkeepers and accounting professionals. These ideas and techniques show you how to quickly build a flourishing full-time or part-time bookkeeping or tax practice, and keep it running profitably. Some of the topics covered in this volume: *How to get clients and keep them *How to attract the most profitable clients *How to set and collect fees *How to offer tax services to your existing clients *How to get referrals from CPA offices *Information on how to become a Certified Bookkeeper through the AIPB *How to comply with the IRS recordkeeping requirements *How to avoid your liability for the dreaded IRS "Trust Recovery Penalty" And much, much more

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.

WARNING: This is not your typical bookkeeping book. You will not find a lot of "Industry Jargon" in this book, nor will you find your usual "do it this way because it's always been done this way" kind of advice. The authors of this book have a twisted sense of humor and it shows. (Their defense - staring at computer screens everyday has finally made them go batty.) This book was written only for the bookkeepers who are dying to try something new, easy and simple, and who don't want to do things "the same old way." If that's you, read on... *********************************** If you have dreams of starting your own lucrative virtual bookkeeping business, but have been putting it off because you're just not sure you can do it, or even get any clients, you're not alone. Every independent bookkeeper feels that way at one time or another. "How to Start a Lucrative Virtual Bookkeeping Business" was created to help get you past your own objections, create the perfect home office, and then go out and find the ideal virtual bookkeeping client - step-by-step. In this book, you will find: - 10 Simple Steps to starting and running your virtual bookkeeping business. - More than 30 ways to find new clients, including what-not-to-do. - An additional 30 tips to help supplement your bookkeeping business. - Scripts to turn your existing clients (or boss) into virtual bookkeeping clients. - Advice on how to brand and market your new business on an extremely-tight budget. - Multiple ways to get your clients to pay. - How to recognize the warning signs of a Deadbeat Client. - Advice from other bookkeeping business professionals on creating the virtual bookkeeping business you've always dreamed of. - PLUS, there are links inside the book to a Bonus Page where you can download FREE "Printable" Word and PDF documents to help you implement the strategies easily into your own business. What are you waiting for? It's time to tell your boss you're making your own hours and they can take you or leave you as you are - a lucrative virtual bookkeeper business owner. *********************************** E.T. Barton and Robin Davis met back in 1976, shortly after Robin's "water broke." That's right, E.T. and Robin are mother and daughter and Robin was all of 5 years old at the time (at least that's the story Robin's sticking to!). Both mother and daughter got into bookkeeping shortly after high school (because it's in the genes), and through the years have encouraged each other to begin their own bookkeeping companies. Since E.T's passion lies in writing, and Robin's lies in bookkeeping, they've decided to team up and share their collective knowledge in a way that is simple and entertaining for the "Average Business Joe." Oh - and Bookkeepers will like it too.

Amazon Listing: Not for coverYou don't have to wait any longer. You have the experience and the expertise. Now is the time to elevate your bookkeeping knowledge to a level you thought was out of reach. - No more endless days keeping up- No more missing out on time with family- No more pain-in-the-ass clients- No more feeling trapped in a rut of compliance work With Beyond Bookkeeping, legendary consultant and profit strategist Lisa Campbell leads you step-by-step as you reposition your services, get back your freedom and worth, and make a huge, positive impact on your clients' lives and businesses. In your new role as an advisor to your clients, you will:- Work only with the people you want - Have time for your personal life- Grow your wealth- Experience a career that is fulfilling and rewarding The life you've been dreaming of is in your hands.

If you want to become a qualified bookkeeper, want to run your business more efficiently, or want to run your own bookkeeping business this book is for you. The Accounting for Everyone bookkeeping course takes you from your first transaction right through to the balance sheet in dead easy stages, step by step. By the time you get to advanced subjects such as depreciation, accruals and pre-payments you will be able to grasp the concepts with ease. You will understand exactly how a transaction goes via debits and credits, through day-books and journals, into ledgers, the profit and loss account and how all of that is compiled into a balance sheet. Accounting is easy, it's just the jargon that lets people down. Throughout the book are worked examples and tasks for you to complete, together with blank tables for your answers. The bookkeeping course is applicable to most countries and also covers Sales Tax (USA), VAT (UK and Europe) and GST (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Austria and others).