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Follow on Google News | Outsourced Accounting And Virtual Bookkeeping Services - Competing 101?Online accounting and virtual bookkeeping services reduce the costs associated with small business accounting which can be used to create a competitive advantage.
By: Geetha Prabhukumar Who exactly is Sheela and where is she located? Sheela is a virtual assistant – virtual bookkeeper to be specific - working from India for Maxim Liberty, Inc. (http://www.maximliberty.com) Online virtual assistant and bookkeeping services are an outsourcing strategy that can be used to gain competitive advantage. As a result, they have shot to prominence and firms of various sizes are utilizing them. The recession has made businesses more prudent about how they spend their operating budgets making virtual assistants a hot commodity. How do they help crush the competition? Paying as low as $5 per hour for online bookkeeping services vs. the typical $40,000 for an in-house bookkeeper yields tremendous cost savings. A small business can then use the money saved to (a) beat the competition with lower prices for products and services, (b) invest in additional advertising to outgrow the competition, and (c) prepare better strategic plans. Hot coffee on your desk can be a challenge but a virtual assistant can do just about everything else an on-site assistant can do. Many a times, even with a full-time on-site assistant, the work load can get too much to handle. The on-site assistant can, at that point, off-load work to a Virtual Assistant who can act as an overflow buffer. Small businesses can find it cumbersome to train and retain an assistant or bookkeeper. Further, the effective hourly pay rate for the assistant gets quite high especially if the assistant has to be paid for vacations, health care, sick time and bench time. As a result, having more than one assistant is really a luxury that a small business may not be able to afford. Small business owners may attempt to do everything on their own. However, it may not make good business sense to do so because their time could be better spent focusing on their core competency and developing the business. It would be more efficient to delegate the operational grind to online services which consists of specialists such as bookkeepers, paralegals and administrative assistants. With technology paving the way, even very small firms can hire virtual assistants and bookkeeping services as a cost saving and more efficient alternative to a jack-of-all- # # # Outsourced bookkeeping services for $5-8/hr. Online bookkeeping and accounting services with virtual bookkeeper or virtual accountant. Virtual bookkeeping using quickbooks. End
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