Bookkeeper that uses Excel
I have a small design firm and am looking for a bookkeeper to help me organize before tax season. I have been using Excel for years and seems to be enough, but so far all bookkeepers I met have been recommending buying QB, which is at least $35/mo and much too complicated.Thank you!
Oct 26, 2018
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Hi there, I just moved out here from Utah and I am not working here but I used to have a bookkeeping business in Utah. Chances are you are not going to be able to find a bookkeeper that uses Excel. The reason being because of how much faster other products are such as QuickBooks or Xero. I have used Excel for a client, and while it worked fine it took me about 5 times longer than my clients that I had in QB. So while you may save costs on using Excel you may have to pay more in time, which is not cost effective. Plus QB has a lot of other features specific to business finances that can be very beneficial, especially as your company grows. If your company gets larger you are going to want to switch from Excel anyway as it just gets more complicated. I hope this helps.
Hi - you can buy QB desktop for around $200 or you can subscribe to QB online and I think that the $35/month is the online version.
QB online is a different experience than QB desktop (and vastly inferior in my opinion). If your excel is set up like a ledger, it should be all that you need. Not all bookkeepers are well versed in applying their knowledge across various tools/applications.
---lucia