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On-site bookkeepers travel to your office or home office and do your bookkeeping on your premises.
Off-site bookkeepers do not come to your office. They do all the work at their own office.
Following is a chart that should help you decide which type is better for your business.
Chart 1: Primary benefits of Off-site and On-site bookkeepers:
Chart Summary Off-site bookkeepers are generally less expensive than on-site bookkeepers, but on-site bookkeepers can provide more services. If you need basic bookkeeping and want to keep your costs down – go with an off-site bookkeeper. If you need your bookkeeper to do filing and other administrative tasks, and you don’t mind paying more – go with an on-site bookkeeper.
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Off-site bookkeepers |
On-site bookkeepers |
| Cost |
- Usually costs less than on-site bookkeeper
- No travel time to pay for
- No annual accounting software cost (bookkeeper provides software)
- Can take advantage of leverage and have lower cost staff do beginner level data entry
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| Hassle for business owner |
- Don’t have to schedule time for bookkeeper to come to office
- Bookkeeper provides own desk, computer, software, supplies
- Business owner provides answers to questions by e-mail.
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- Bookkeeper can open mail, organize documents and perform other administrative tasks
- No need to transport (fax/email/courier) documents to bookkeeper
- Bookkeeper can write cheques more frequently
- Slightly less time-consuming for business owner - does not have to annotate deposits and electronic transfers on bank statements
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| Bookkeeper Accessibility |
- Usually more accessible because not having to spend time travelling and spends most of the day at own office
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| Bookkeeper Questions |
- Answering bookkeeper’s questions can be done by e-mail (usually at a time convenient for owner)
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- Answering bookkeeper’s questions can be done verbally (usually at a time convenient for the bookkeeper) and can be an interruption during the work day
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| Accounting software data file and Security |
- Accounting software data file resides at bookkeeper’s location
- Automatically backed up multiple times per day for disaster recovery purposes.
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- Accounting data file resides at business location
- No additional monthly fee for access to live accounting data file (because data file resides on company computer)
- May not be backed up regularly
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| Fraud |
- Less susceptible to fraud because bookkeeper does not make bank transactions
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