It is a rare case but it happens. There are business owners who never kept bookkeeping for their business and have been working in the darkness.
It is not an easy task to organize hundreds of documents that are not made very clear, unclear, or that the employer knows to account.
The accounting service provider will generally start by gathering information regarding the possessions, duties, and debts of the business. This data will be later used to make a balance sheet.
When your business is small, it is advised to separate the expenses and income of the owner and those of the business. This can easily become complicated when the business is owned by a few people.
The accounting services provider will know that if the employer has been working for several years, it will be nearly impossible to assemble an initial balance of five or more years, so this should be done on the date on which to clearly identify all assets, rights and obligations of the employer.
The accountant will then work on cost accounting statements that will contain information on sales, raw materials purchased, services hired, and money owed to employees or suppliers.
This point should be especially careful, since the rupture and the culture of your business is not easy to identify with precision the activities of the employer. It is common that many of them try to hide information, provides incomplete, etc..
The most crucial part of hiring accounting services for someone that did not have it before is the change of the employer’s mindset.
The accounting service provider will design accounting procedures and tools that they employer should use in order to give continuation to the work.
For an employer who has not followed any accounting guidelines before, having controls and procedures is the most important but also the toughest thing. Many business owners tend to think that they will pay more taxes if more is quantified.
Organizational change is necessary in order to give proper continuation to accounting. There is no point in hiring accounting services to bring order to the house, if they owner lets it go back to the mess it originally had.
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