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When you’re starting out as a small business owner, the temptation is to go DIY with your accounting. Hiring a professional accountant or tax adviser costs money and that’s an overhead that you can remove by doing all the financial management yourself, right?
But is DIY accounting the most sensible option for your business? And why might partnering with an experienced accountant be a valuable investment in your future?
The 5 big challenges of managing your own accounts
At the initial stages of founding your business, you might think that raising a few invoices, paying a few supplier bills and making sure there’s cash in the bank is well within your abilities.
However, as the business grows, and you take on more customers and employees, your finances are likely to get far more complicated – not to mention far more time-consuming. So, should you still be managing your accounts solo at this important stage of your growth?
Here are five of the common challenges of going down the DIY accounting route:
How working with an accountant turns these challenges into business benefits
Having full responsibility for your own business finances is a major drain on your time as an owner and business leader. But the good news is that partnering with an accountant can very quickly lighten this load and get you back to focusing on your business.
By engaging an accountant to take on your financial management, you get:
Talk to us about outsourcing your financial management
Hiring an accountant is definitely a better investment in your business than opting for DIY accounting. Instead of getting bogged down in bookkeeping, or going red in the face with record-keeping, just hand over the financial management workload to the experts.
We’re here to lighten the load, sort out your accounts and put you back in complete control of your finances and strategic decision-making.
Get in touch with the WDF team to discuss how we might be able to assist you and your business.
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