Bookkeeping Services for Small and Medium Size Business

Bookkeeper services won't necessarily include income tax preparation. This is because not all financial outsourcing is handled by CPAs. Only CPAs are certified and qualified to handle and prepare your company's taxes.

Bookkeeper Services and Taxes

If you want to work with a company that will handle both your bookkeeping and your taxes, you'll need to shop around. In my opinion, you don't necessarily need an outsourcing Accounting firm that can handle both. It's relatively easy to find a CPA to help you with taxes. It's harder to find a great firm to handle your outsource financial services needs. If you need someone to help you with an audit, you will need to contact a CPA, rather than a bookkeeper. A good bookkeeper outsourcing firm, however, will probably be able to give you excellent CPA recommendations. Plus, if you do have the misfortune of facing an audit, you can be confident in the state of your books when they've been prepared by a professional outsourced bookkeeper.

Additionally, most bookkeeper services outsourcing firms do not exist on the Internet alone. The best are extensions of more traditional accounting firms, firms that often employ CPAs. If this is the case with your outsourcing firm, the parent company will likely be an excellent place for you to turn come tax time, when you need CPA services.