Jerrold Richards

Bookkeeping Service

Tasks

Routine (AP, AR, etc.)

End of period (P&L, balance sheet, agings, adjusting and closing entries, etc.)

Reports and graphs (routine, special or custom)

Reconciliations

Commonly-Used Software

Quickbooks, PeachTree, AccPac, other packages as necessary 

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access

Setup (chart of accounts, systems, reconciliation forms, etc.)

Cash flow forecasting

Budgets (simple rule: the more successful businesses usually have budgets)

MIS, metrics and statement analysis (GPM, break-even, ROI, EOQ, performance evaluation, etc.)

Responsibilty accounting (who spent the money and why), management reports

Internal controls (even a one-person organization benefits from good internal controls, and needs to have them in place for healthy future growth)

Transfer pricing

Documentation of systems, procedures, workflow (sales and invoicing, cash management, expenses decisions and payments, etc.)

Product and service costing methods and procedures

Planning (money aspects), capital budgeting, forecasting, non-routine decisions

Software needs analysis (for small- to mid-sized organizations only)

Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.NET, VBA, typically with an emphasis on Microsoft Office software such as Excel and Access, other DB, Crystal Reports, etc. Excel programming in particular in recent years has come to be accepted as useful and comprehensive for a remarkably wide variety of client needs, ranging from simple spreadsheet processing to complex projects.