Sunday, June 21, 2009

5 surefire ways to find and hire a good bookkeeper

Bookkeeper is person who control your business finances by keeping and calculating payments, invoices, payroll, revenue and other business critical transactions. Thus, it is essential to hire a skilled and experienced bookkeeper who can save you time and money.

Find below 5 surefire ways to find and hire a good bookkeeper for your business:

  • Look for a person with a university degree, if possible a bachelors or higher in business management, finance, accounting or relevant areas of study. You may consider somebody with an associate degree with significant amount of relevant experience.
  • Discuss detailed skills i.e. acquaintance with computer programs, bookkeeping software, reporting requirements, conducting tax filling, payroll processing and management. Make certain that the person can meet up all of the requirements for the position and can manage additional tasks as the company’s requirements develop.
  • Evaluate the person’s bookkeeping experience and check his/her professional work history to authenticate what is included on the resume is genuine.
  • Review the interpersonal and communication skills, multitasking ability, workload and pressure, working as a team member. If you think his/her behavior or quality is a best fit, then let other staff to interview this person and provide you opinion.
  • If required, plan a bookkeeping hiring exams (several versions are available online) to test capabilities.
  • Evaluate the person’s bookkeeping experience and check his/her professional work history to authenticate what is included on the resume is genuine.
  • Review the interpersonal and communication skills, multitasking ability, workload and pressure, working as a team member. If you think his/her behavior or quality is a best fit, then let other staff to interview this person and provide you opinion.

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