How to Start a Successful Home Based Freelance Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation Business

How to Start a Successful Home Based Freelance Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation 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 home-based bookkeeping or tax practice, and keep it running profitably.

Some of the topics covered in this volume:

How to get started and obtain all necessary business licenses

How to manage your cash flow for maximum profitability and business success

How to get clients and keep them

How to attract the most profitable clients

How to increase referrals

How to set and collect your fees

How to offer tax services to your existing clients

How to get referrals from CPA offices and other financial professionals

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!

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars How to start your own bookkeeping business
I found the book to be very informative.It is a common sense, no nonsense read.I am sure it will be very helpful to many just starting out.It makes it so much easier to have all the steps laid out for you and organized.

The tax prep chapter is good and,as a tax preparer,I am so pleased they clearly stated you need to take a tax prep class with an established company prior to doing taxes.Please,please do not try to do taxes without training.Not only will you lose your business but you can get very stiff penalties from IRS if you do not know what you are doing.

My only negative is the glue.It really needs a better glue.I solved this by using a hole punch and putting the pages in a binder.Other than that I would have given it 5 stars.

3 Stars Good book for learning some basics, but not worth the money
This books certainly contains some helpful information if you’re going to start you own bookkeeping business, but 3 major things make me recommend you think twice before purchasing this book:

1. To say frankly, this books is about starting ANY professional service business, not just bookkeeping. It certainly refers to some accounting topics – i.e. choosing accounting software etc., but essentially it gives you no idea about how to build competitive advantage of your bookkeeping business and doesn’t tell you any ins and outs of this particular business type

2. This books is poorly edited – it has two authors and it looks like these authors wrote different part of the books and nobody took time to make sure that the book is cohesive and doesn’t say the same ideas twice. Pictures in this book just magnify the impression of a poor editor work – they are absolutely not stylish and resemble the standard picture set of MS Word in 1990s. This is certainly not to say that poor editing will preclude you from understanding what this book is about, but I expected much more from the item priced at $40.

3. Talking about “Tax preparation” part of this book, the whole content of this chapter can be put into one sentence “At some point of time in developing your bookkeeping business, you might find it interesting to expand your services into tax preparation field”. Well, this looks too simplistic to me – taxation is one of the most complicated areas of finance and just to say that sometimes you will wake up and decide to get into this field and next morning you will be there is just odd.

To put is short, if this book cost $15 and were titled “A couple of nice ideas about getting into the world of services business”, I would certainly give it 5 star. But a combination of this book’s actual name and its $40 cost only earns a 3 star rating.

4 Stars Good Book Useful Information
This books is well written and helps the self starter off to a good start. A lot of the information is common sense but when its organized and tied together it helps for better organization. Only reason the book didn’t get a five star rating is because the book lacked on the real life forms and examples. I also wanted a little more guidance on price setting.

5 Stars Highly Recommended!
“How to Start a Successful Home-Based Freelance Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation Business” gives you all the facts that you need from planning your business to landing clients. Both authors know their stuff and this clearly comes across in the information provided in this book.

If you’re looking to start a bookkeeping business, I highly recommend you check this book out.

5 Stars Great Help For For All New Business’
This Is A Great Source For Much Needed Information For All New And Home Operations Concise And Easy To Find Answers To Questions That Can’t Be Found Readily Elsewhere. Give It A Read I Promise You Won’t Regret It

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