How to Start a Successful Home-Based Freelance Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation Business (Paperback)

by C. Pinheiro EA (Author), Gabrielle Fontaine PB (Author)
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Product Description
This book is a genuine resource, packed with proven methods, and valuable interviews with real bookkeepers and accounting professionals. These ideas and techniques show you how to quickly build a flourishing full-time or part-time home-based bookkeeping or tax practice, and keep it running profitably.

Some of the topics covered in this volume:

How to get started and obtain all necessary business licenses

How to manage your cash flow for maximum profitability and business success

How to get clients and keep them

How to attract the most profitable clients

How to increase referrals

How to set and collect your fees

How to offer tax services to your existing clients

How to get referrals from CPA offices and other financial professionals

Information on how to become a Certified Bookkeeper through the AIPB

How to comply with the IRS recordkeeping requirements

How to avoid your liability for the dreaded IRS Trust Recovery Penalty

And much, much more!

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Pineapple Study Guides (January 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981897142
• ISBN-13: 978-0981897141
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #149,628 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book Useful Information, May 19, 2009

By	Sr. Accountant (Arkansas, USA) - See all my reviews

This books is well written and helps the self starter off to a good start. A lot of the information is common sense but when its organized and tied together it helps for better organization. Only reason the book didn't get a five star rating is because the book lacked on the real life forms and examples. I also wanted a little more guidance on price setting.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!, February 15, 2009

By	Sylvia Jaumann (Kamloops, BC Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"How to Start a Successful Home-Based Freelance Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation Business" gives you all the facts that you need from planning your business to landing clients. Both authors know their stuff and this clearly comes across in the information provided in this book.

If you're looking to start a bookkeeping business, I highly recommend you check this book out.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book for learning some basics, but not worth the money, July 13, 2009

By	Denis L. (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This books certainly contains some helpful information if you're going to start you own bookkeeping business, but 3 major things make me recommend you think twice before purchasing this book:

1. To say frankly, this books is about starting ANY professional service business, not just bookkeeping. It certainly refers to some accounting topics - i.e. choosing accounting software etc., but essentially it gives you no idea about how to build competitive advantage of your bookkeeping business and doesn't tell you any ins and outs of this particular business type
2. This books is poorly edited - it has two authors and it looks like these authors wrote different part of the books and nobody took time to make sure that the book is cohesive and doesn't say the same ideas twice. Pictures in this book just magnify the impression of a poor editor work - they are absolutely not stylish and resemble the standard picture set of MS Word in 1990s. This is certainly not to say that poor editing will preclude you from understanding what this book is about, but I expected much more from the item priced at $40.
3. Talking about "Tax preparation" part of this book, the whole content of this chapter can be put into one sentence "At some point of time in developing your bookkeeping business, you might find it interesting to expand your services into tax preparation field". Well, this looks too simplistic to me - taxation is one of the most complicated areas of finance and just to say that sometimes you will wake up and decide to get into this field and next morning you will be there is just odd.

To put is short, if this book cost $15 and were titled "A couple of nice ideas about getting into the world of services business", I would certainly give it 5 star. But a combination of this book's actual name and its $40 cost only earns a 3 star rating.