Any business is only as good as its service, and the service is only as good as the employees. When you hire a virtual accounting firm, we know that you’re really buying:
- Someone you can trust to keep your financial records in order
- Accurate financial data about your company at your fingertips, permitting you to make the best business decisions in a snap
- The extra time that won’t be wasted finding, hiring and training bookkeeper after bookkeeper who can barely do the job
That’s why we invest so much time and effort to find and hire the best virtual bookkeepers from across the U.S. to provide the best service to our customers.
Why In-House Bookkeepers Have Such High Turnover Rates
Many of our clients originally called us because they’d been through multiple bad bookkeepers:
- Employees who didn’t know the software after claiming they did
- Employees who called out sick frequently and couldn’t submit financial documents or close the books on time and accurately every month
- Bookkeepers lost the company money due to inadvertent bookkeeping errors or, worse, blatantly stole from the company
Bookkeeping is a stressful job that requires very specific knowledge and training. Bookkeepers should be trained and certified in bookkeeping and accounting software, in order to maximize the capabilities of the software and provide added value to their employers.
A Few Things You May Not Know About AccountingDepartment.com Bookkeepers
Our virtual accountants and bookkeepers are all trained and certified QuickBooks Pro Advisors, permitting them to leverage the best accounting software to provide all the tools you need to stay on top of your business.
Our bookkeepers go through a rigorous hiring process. Out of the hundreds of resumes we receive daily, only 10 percent are called in for our test. Only 5 percent pass our rigorous QuickBooks and accounting test, which was created by our company to ensure that any virtual bookkeeper who makes it to the interview stage of the hiring process truly knows QuickBooks and GAAP accounting principles, the core of U.S. accounting standards.
Once we’ve whittled down applicants to those with the experience and knowledge we require, still only 50 percent pass our interview to meet our high bookkeeping standards.
Keeping Employees Happy So They Work Harder for You
Finally, our management team goes the extra mile to foster a nationwide community of virtual bookkeepers and accountants who take pride in their work and our company. We’ve built a strong corporate culture based on treating every employee as if they are a crucial part of our business — because they are.
This means we can provide your business with highly-qualified, self-motivated, dedicated virtual bookkeepers, accountants and financial controllers, leaving you with less to worry about. If you’ve been unhappy with the way you have to manage in-house bookkeepers, all you have to do is call us today to enjoy the peace-of-mind of a virtual accounting department that gets the job done for you.
