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Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant for Your Business – How to Hire and Why?

There are just about two certainties in life: the first one is death and taxes. (just kidding, but that’s the reality!)  While you can’t really do much about the former, there are tons about the latter. But high-quality bookkeeping is just about more than taxes. Trust! It’s the flow of your business day-by-day. 

What is the biggest concern? I’m sure you’re too busy growing the business to handle the bookkeeping yourself all of the time. You require outside assistance. VA FLIX comes to the rescue!

You need virtual bookkeeping services! Do you know why? Because working with a virtual bookkeeper defines someone as someone who assists you in keeping your books from a remote location, you can then streamline various aspects of your daily routine.

You don’t really have to be beholden to a daily routine of generating invoices, monitoring accounts receivables, and other repetitive bookkeeping daily tasks that keep you away from your most important job. If you can find a skilled professional to take on these tasks, you can build a more efficient business. 

That said, you don’t want to turn over your online accounting to just anybody. You won’t streamline your financial reporting and improve your current balance sheets if you hire the first virtual bookkeeping service you find. VA FLIX has a guide that will help you find the right virtual service to match your industry –

 

Here’s What You Can Do with Virtual Bookkeeping Assistant/s

Hiring a Virtual Bookkeeper Assistant has never been more in demand. Just about these days, 50-58% of large companies use Cloud (Quickbooks, Odo, Freshbooks, Xero, Sage, etc). Thanks to Cloud Accounting, It is easy to bring in your virtual bookkeeping assistant with no to minimal onboarding required. Phew! That just only means you can easily create an account, have your virtual bookkeeper log in and access, and you’re finally ready to outsource numerous bookkeeping tasks.

Here are some of the amazing things you can do to use cloud accounting:

  • Get assistance with your cloud accounting software.

    Let’s face it! As much as you’d like to think you’ve got everything neatly and in order, accounting cloud software isn’t always as simple as you might think. Sometimes it’s so perplexing that you have to scratch your head to understand each and every feature of that platform. Having an experienced Virtual bookkeeping assistant from VA FLIX helps you quickly and easily understand your way around QuickBooks (and other accounting software), so you don’t have to wonder if you’re doing it correctly.

  • Getting cash flow reports.

    You, and only you, are in charge of your company. The question is, how much control do you have if you don’t know how much money you have? If you want your virtual bookkeeping assistant to provide you with regular reports, such as cash flow reports and invoice updates, even monitoring your credit card usage can be checked and delegated.

  • Outsourcing your payroll services. 
    Cloud accounting made payroll management easier for business owners. Having a virtual bookkeeper or a virtual bookkeeping assistant always keeps tabs on the most important information/data means you don’t constantly have to measure and monitor your payroll services. A virtual bookkeeper can also generate necessary reports on what you can expect in terms of payroll taxes, giving you more accurate measurements and security of where your company stands.

     

  • Outsource data entry.

    Do you have a huge number of physical expense receipts that you’d like to enter into the system? Do you need assistance filling out an intuit table or preparing for tax filing? Do you have to perform bank reconciliations that necessitate sifting through massive amounts of data? Stop overthinking it, you don’t have to do all of that data entry by yourself. It’s time to outsource. VA FLIX is here!

     

  • Monitor financial transactions.

    Your financial transaction(s) is/are your company’s lifeblood. They not only determine your overall financial information, but they also paint a picture of your company’s current status or how the business is doing on a daily basis. While you focus on productive work, you can keep a virtual bookkeeper’s eye on these financial transactions.

How to Incorporate a Virtual Bookkeeper into Your Business Routine

You may already be familiar with how accounting software works and how it benefits businesses worldwide; as additional information, approximately 64 percent of small businesses currently use various versions of accounting software. Including a virtual bookkeeper assistant with accounting and bookkeeping experience may appear to be as simple as adding them to your accounting cloud software and telling them to go to town. Before you begin that process, consider how virtual bookkeepers work best:

 

  • Bringing financial data into single reports. 

    Do you have an accounting hack? Allow your virtual bookkeeper to compile your financial data and combine multiple variables into a single report. This will allow you to stay up to date on all of your company’s latest updates and developments with little to no interruption to your daily routine.

  • Asking assistance with tax preparation.

    Tax preparation is an important part of doing business, and it isn’t going away after one season. You will be required to file quarterly estimated taxes. Your virtual bookkeeping assistant can assist you in determining how much money should be set aside for these payments.

  • Keep up to date on the latest developments.

    We recommend working with a virtual bookkeeper who is from the same country as you or has experience in that country. If you pay your taxes in the United States, you’ll need a virtual bookkeeper who is well-versed in the tax laws of that country.

  • Outsourcing your most basic accounting tasks.
    Tired of creating invoices on your own? Or maybe it’s approving expense reports? These are tasks that you can immediately delegate to a VA FLIX Bookkeeper Assistant. What’s the point? Outsourcing these to a bookkeeping service, it turns out, will do more to free up our time.

The Benefits of Working with a Virtual Bookkeeper

The concept is simple: delegate some of your key bookkeeping responsibilities to a virtual accounting assistant, then you’ll be able to focus on what’s important to your business. However, if you’re still on the fence about hiring someone to handle your accounting task, you should know that there are far more advantages than you can imagine.

For starters, you will almost certainly save a significant amount of money! According to the article, we read (Best of Budgets), virtual assistants can help you save up to 78 percent of your operating costs annually. That doesn’t even take into account any potential savings from having an experienced virtual bookkeeper oversee your expenses, income, and annual/quarterly taxes. You will and may be able to identify the key areas of spending that you can immediately cut loose with the assistance of a skilled virtual bookkeeper from VA FLIX.

You will surely notice that there are some other intangible benefits to hiring someone to keep track of your critical numbers. Approximately 30% of small businesses regard their accountants as their most trusted financial coaches. It is necessary to have an extra set of eyes to look over your expenses in order to evaluate where your money flows each month. (Or at least once a day)

While saving time is amazing (super magical! ), keep in mind that a virtual bookkeeping assistant from VA FLIX will have unique skills that you may not have. They can absolutely identify errors in your bookkeeping, our Virtual Bookkeepers help prevent problems from developing, and will provide a more streamlined way to conduct your business – often in ways, you have never seen by handling your own bookkeeping.

How to Get Started With Your Own Virtual Accounting Service

We understand that business owners may be hesitant to outsource something as important as their financials to someone else. However, as it turns out, the procedure is really simple, safe, and secure. Here are the basic steps:

  1. Meet your amazing personal virtual assistant

    We’ll ask you a few questions so that we can match you with one of our virtual assistants as well as a backup assistant.

  2. You Get All The Assistance You Need

    You will also have a VA FLIX Manager who will assist you in monitoring your Virtual Assistant and ensuring that they are productive enough. You won’t have to worry about paying the manager because you’ll only be paying your Virtual Assistant.

     

  3. Create A Workflow

    VA FLIX empowers you to design a workflow that suits your needs. You’ll choose how to keep track of their time, communicate with them, monitor their productivity, and share files with your assistant. 

  4. Start Working Your Game Plan.

    You can work with your personal Virtual Assistant from 8 PM to 5 PM in your local time. now!


Do it the right way! VA FLIX will make sure they bring on an expert new VA who is familiar with your processes and able to get started with confidence on day one. 

“Now is the right  time to Hire an Assistant and… Chill..”

 

FAQ for hiring Virtual Bookkeepers from VA FLIX

With something as important as bookkeeping, it is only natural that you’re going to have plenty of questions. That’s why we have taken some of the most popular questions we get from our clients about working with a virtual accounting assistant to help you clarify the process:

What kinds of businesses are ideal for virtual bookkeepers?

If you file business taxes – which we sure hope you do, then you’re a candidate to hire a virtual bookkeeper. Like any other businesses need to get a hold of their finances, and any small business owner who no longer has the time and energy to keep the books, you need to think about outsourcing this vital part of your business. 

If you own a fast-growing business, or even if you’re a self-employed freelancer or a contractor, keeping your financial reports or books in order is an essential and necessary part of that growth. A virtual bookkeeper from VA FLIX goes beyond simply delegation and enhances your bookkeeping with your assistant-specific accounting skills.

What’s the major difference between hiring a virtual bookkeeper and having my own accountant in-house?

Great question! There are two key differences between them. One, a virtual bookkeeper is able to work remotely, which only means that you’ll be able to contact them via phone, skype, facebook chat, or email. In specific circumstances, you can reach out to your virtual assistant if your primary assistant isn’t available. In other words, an in-house accountant that you hire specifically to handle your books is going to be physically present.

The second difference is that an in-house accountant working in your office will likely be far more expensive. That’s correct! An in-house accountant will require job benefits, a full-time salary, and access. For the virtual bookkeeper, you’ll only pay them for the hours they work and that’s it! Plus VA FLIX has reasonable prices. 

What limits does a Bookkeeping Assistant have?

In the digital age, there’s very little chance an experienced virtual bookkeeper can’t do for you. You may not be able to work with your assistant physically, and that’s the only cons. Our Virtual Bookkeepers are fully trained and know how taxes work in your country. Most of the business of keeping books and financial transactions can be done online these days, and almost all businesses run their bookkeeping online. As long as the numbers are there, your virtual bookkeeper can review them.

I know nothing about bookkeeping. How can I meet a Virtual Assistant from you?

It always helps to find a bookkeeper with specific experience in your industry, but really, it’s not necessary and it’s a FORTUNE! We understand that choosing a bookkeeper to hire can be a unique challenge, which is why John and Karen from VA FLIX will assign a Bookkeeping Expert to help you match a Virtual Assistant you need. VA FLIX will guide you and will answer your questions about hiring a virtual accounting assistant even if this is your first time.

“Now is the right  time to Hire an Assistant and… Chill..”

Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant for Your Business – How to Hire and Why?

There are just about two certainties in life: the first one is death and taxes. (just kidding, but that’s the reality!)  While you can’t do much about the former, there are tons about the latter. But high-quality bookkeeping is just about more than taxes. Trust! It’s the flow of your business day-by-day. 

The Major problem? I’m sure you are too busy growing the business to always handle that bookkeeping yourself. You need outside help. VA FLIX to the rescue!

You need virtual bookkeeping services! Know why? Simply because working with a virtual bookkeeper will define someone as who helps you keep your books from a remote location, you can then streamline various portions of your daily routine. 

You don’t have to be beholden to a daily routine of generating invoices, monitoring accounts receivables, and other repetitive bookkeeping daily tasks that keep you away from your most important job. If you can find a skilled professional to take on these tasks, you can build a more efficient business. 

That said, you don’t want to turn over your online accounting to just anybody. You won’t streamline your financial reporting and improve your current balance sheets if you hire the first virtual bookkeeping service you find. VA FLIX has a guide that will help you find the right virtual service to match your industry –

Here’s What You Can Do with Virtual Bookkeeping Assistant/s

Hiring a Virtual Bookkeeper Assistant has never been more in demand. Just about these days, 50-58% of large companies use the cloud (Quickbooks, Odo, Freshbooks, Xero, Sage, etc). Thanks to Cloud Accounting, It is easy to bring in your virtual bookkeeping assistant with no to minimal onboarding required. Phew! That just only means you can easily create an account, have your virtual bookkeeper log in and access, and you’re finally ready to outsource numerous bookkeeping tasks.

Here are some of the amazing things you can do to use cloud accounting:

  • Get help with your accounting cloud software. Let’s admit! As much as you would like to think you have wrapped up everything neatly and in order, that accounting cloud software isn’t always as intuitive as you can imagine. Sometimes, it’s just confusing that you even have to scratch your head to know every feature of that platform. Having an experienced  Virtual bookkeeping assistant from VA FLIX helps you understand your way around QuickBooks (and other accounting software) easily and quickly so you don’t have to wonder if you’re doing it right.
  • Getting cash flow reports. You and only you are in charge of your business. Question is, how much control do you have if you’re unsure about your cash flow? If you want your virtual bookkeeping assistant to provide you with regular reports, e.g cash flow reports, invoice updates, even monitoring your credit card usage can be checked and delegated to a virtual bookkeeping assistant.
     
  • Outsourcing your payroll services. Cloud accounting made payroll management easier for business owners. Having a virtual bookkeeper or a virtual bookkeeping assistant always keeps tabs on the most important information/data means you don’t constantly have to measure and monitor your payroll services. A virtual bookkeeper can also generate necessary reports on what you can expect in terms of payroll taxes, giving you more accurate measurements and security of where your company stands.
  • Outsource data entry. Do you have a lot of expense physical receipts that you’d like to load into the system? Do you need help to fill out an intuit table, or even prepare for tax filing? Do you need to do bank reconciliations that require poring through massive amounts of data? You don’t have to do all that data entry by yourself, stop overthinking. outsource it.‍ 😀 VA FLIX is here!
  • Monitor financial transactions. Your financial transaction/s is/are the lifeblood of your business. Not only do they determine your overall financial information, but they also paint a picture of your company’s current standing or how the business is doing every day. You can keep a virtual bookkeeper’s eye on these financial transactions while you focus on productive work.

How to Incorporate a Virtual Bookkeeper into Your Business Routine

You might already be familiar with how accounting software works and helps businesses globally; Just as additional information, about 64% of small businesses use some different versions of accounting software currently. Incorporating a virtual bookkeeper assistant with an accounting and bookkeeping experience might look as easy as adding them to your accounting cloud software and telling them to go to town. Before you do that process, try to consider some ways of how virtual bookkeepers work best:

  • Bringing financial data into single reports. Know an accounting hack? Have your virtual bookkeeper bring together your financial data and bring multiple variables to a single report. This will help you keep abreast of all the latest updates and developments at your company with minimal to no interruption to your daily schedule.
  • Asking assistance with tax preparation. Tax preparation is a major part of doing business, and that’s not going to go for only one season. You will have to file estimated quarterly taxes. Your virtual bookkeeping assistant can help you understand how much funds need to be set aside for these payments.
  • Keep up to date on the latest developments. We recommend working with a virtual bookkeeper with the same home country as you—or at least expertise in that country. You’ll want a virtual bookkeeper well versed in the tax laws of the United States if that’s where you pay your taxes.
  • Outsourcing your most basic accounting tasks. Sick of generating invoices yourself? Or approving reports for expenses? These are tasks that you can outsource to a VA FLIX Bookkeeper Assistant immediately. Why even bother? It turns out, outsourcing these to a bookkeeping service will do more to free our time.

The Benefits of Working with a Virtual Bookkeeper

The idea is very simple: move some of these key bookkeeping duties to a virtual accounting assistant and you’ll be free to focus on what’s important to your business. However, if you’re still on the fence about hiring someone to take on your accounting duties, you have to consider that there are many more benefits than you can imagine.

For starters, you will and for sure save a huge chunk of money! From the article we have read (Best of Budgets), it is fairly judged that virtual assistants can help you save up to 78% of operating costs annually, that’s right! Per year! That’s not just factoring in any potential for money-saving opportunities that come from an experienced virtual bookkeeper overseeing your expenses, income, and annual/quarterly taxes. With a help of a skilled virtual bookkeeper from VA FLIX, you will and may be able to identify the key areas of spending that you can immediately cut loose.

You will and for sure notice that there are some other intangible benefits for hiring someone to stay on top of your important numbers. Just about 30% of small businesses view their accountants as their most trusted financial coaches. Having an extra set of eyes to look over your expenses is necessary to evaluate where your money flows each month. (or daily)

Saving time is great (super magical!), You have to keep in mind that a virtual bookkeeping assistant from VA FLIX will have unique skills that you may not have yourself. They can identify errors in your bookkeeping, our Virtual Bookkeepers help prevent problems from developing, and will provide a more streamlined way to conduct your business – often in ways, you have never seen by handling your bookkeeping by yourself.

How to Get Started With Your Virtual Accounting Service

Business owners might be reserved about the process of outsourcing something as important as their financials to somebody else, we got that. But as it turns out, the process is really simple, safe, and secure. Here are the basic steps:

  1. Fill out the form or call us at +1 323 955 1001
    Connect with Karen and John. This will help ensure that the remainder of the steps goes smoothly.

  2. We don’t want you to just hire any old virtual assistant, just because it’s a good idea to add some help to your team. VA FLIX Make sure you get someone who they think is the best fit! It is really important that you precisely match your specific needs with the skills and experience of a virtual sales assistant to help. By getting in touch with Karen and John (or even with one of the VA FLIX Managers), that’s exactly what you’ll do.
  3. Get paired with a VA. Before you think about training any executive Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant for your team, you will want to make sure you pair with one that has the skills and experience to handle everything you have for them…
  4. Plug the VA into your business. Let the Virtual Assistant know what kinds of processes they’ll be expecting to participate in, and make sure you have a document outlining some of the necessary steps for adapting to your company. 


Do it the right way! VA FLIX will make sure they bring on an expert new VA who is familiar with your processes and able to get started with confidence on day one. 

“Now is the right  time to Hire an Assistant and… Chill..”

FAQ for hiring Virtual Bookkeepers from VA FLIX

With something as important as bookkeeping, it is only natural that you’re going to have plenty of questions. That’s why we have taken some of the most popular questions we get from our clients about working with a virtual accounting assistant to help you clarify the process:

What kinds of businesses are ideal for virtual bookkeepers?

If you file business taxes – which we sure hope you do, then you’re a candidate to hire a virtual bookkeeper. Like any other businesses need to get a hold of their finances, and any small business owner who no longer has the time and energy to keep the books, you need to think about outsourcing this vital part of your business. 

If you own fast growing business, or even if you’re a self-employed freelancer or a contractor, keeping your financial reports or books in order is a necessary part of that growth. A virtual bookkeeper from VA FLIX goes beyond simply delegation and enhances your bookkeeping with your assistant-specific accounting skills.

What’s the major difference between hiring a virtual bookkeeper and having my accountant in-house?

Great question! There are two key differences between them. One, a virtual bookkeeper can work remotely, which only means that you’ll be able to contact them via phone, skype, facebook chat, or email. In specific circumstances, you can reach out to your virtual assistant if your primary assistant isn’t available. In other words, an in-house accountant that you hire specifically to handle your books is going to be physically present.

The second difference is that an in-house accountant working in your office will likely be far more expensive. That’s correct! An in-house accountant will require job benefits, a full-time salary, and access. For the virtual bookkeeper, you’ll only pay them for the hours they work and that’s it! Plus VA FLIX has reasonable prices. 

What limits does a Bookkeeping Assistant have?

In the digital age, there’s very little chance an experienced virtual bookkeeper can’t do for you. You may not be able to work with your assistant physically, and that’s the only cons. Our Virtual Bookkeepers are fully trained and know how taxes work in your country. Most of the business of keeping books and financial transactions can be done online these days, and almost all businesses run their bookkeeping online. As long as the numbers are there, your virtual bookkeeper can review them.

I know nothing about bookkeeping. How can I meet a Virtual Assistant from you?

It always helps to find a bookkeeper with specific experience in your industry, but really, it’s not necessary and it’s a FORTUNE! We understand that choosing a bookkeeper to hire can be a unique challenge, which is why John and Karen from VA FLIX will assign a Bookkeeping Expert to help you match a Virtual Assistant you need. VA FLIX will guide you and will answer your questions about hiring a virtual accounting assistant even if this is your first time.

“Now is the right  time to Hire an Assistant and… Chill..”