Top 5 Reasons to Outsource Bookkeeping
August 2, 2010

Outsourced bookkeeping was once always done after the fact, providing limited benefit to the customer. By utilizing the latest scanning, hosting, and wireless technologies, live time outsourced bookkeeping has become a reality. No more dropping off records once a month, quarter, or year to your accountant. Now companies can have real, live, up to the date information on where the numbers are at without having to hire someone internally.

1. Save Money.
Yes, I know everyone claims that their product, system, and solution can save you money, but by outsourcing your bookkeeping you really can! Most small businesses simply don't require the services of a fulltime bookkeeper. So what happens? Often times a bookkeeper is hired and winds up getting pulled into several different roles, with only a quarter of their time actually spent on bookkeeping. Time and money are spent on training and retraining. History shows that a bookkeeper rotates through several companies an average of every few years. The time and energy spent on searching, hiring, training, and fixing mistakes can be saved many, many times over by simply outsourcing these tasks.

2. Get it Done Right.
Hiring a bookkeeper can be an exhaustive process. After sorting through dozens of applicants and finally picking a new employee, it can be difficult for even the most intelligent and savvy business owners to know if their bookkeepers are doing a good job. By hiring a full-time professional outsourced bookkeeper, you can ensure your bookkeeping is done right.

3. Stay Within the Guidelines.
With today's constantly changing, ever regulated business landscape, it takes time and effort to keep your books by the book. Tax deadlines, payroll filings, and sales tax deposits, are just the beginning of what needs to be paid attention. Full-time, professional, outsourced bookkeepers will help keep you out of messes. Often times, we will save companies several months worth of bookkeeping services in penalties and interest alone just by meeting deadlines.

4. Keep it Confidential.
It's no secret that bookkeepers are entrusted with a lot of sacred information. While most bookkeepers will sign confidentiality agreements, these agreements are only as good as the people who sign them. By taking the bookkeeping obligations away, companies can drastically reduce the risk of intentionally or unintentionally transmitting confidential information.

5. Focus on Your Strengths.
I'll make this one simple. You focus on what you do and we'll focus on what we do. Whether you build houses, make pizzas, or manufacture widgets, your time is best spent doing just that. In the same way you can let us do what we do best, which is bookkeeping and accounting. We do it F.A.S.T. we keep it clean, and we do it right.

F.A.S.T. Saves You Money
August 31, 2010

Here at Legacy Growth we claim that we can save you money with our F.A.S.T. bookkeeping, accounting, and tax solutions. It's easy to make those claims about saving customers money, but we don't believe in making claims without being able to back them up with data.

Legacy Growth recently completed a series of brief case studies, which showed how utilizing a Legacy Package are saving companies 20, 30 and even 40% on accounting and bookkeeping and accounting costs. We analyzed the costs for each company, taking into account the cost of paying a dedicated bookkeeper, taxes, benefits, workers comp, software, payroll, and year end accounting and income tax preparation. We then compared those costs our Legacy Package to see how we stacked up.

To view the case studies for yourself, follow the link.
Legacy Growth Outsourcing Case Study

We are saving businesses money and we can do the same for you. Take a look at your own costs and add them up. Give us a call and let us give you a quote. We'll review your current bookkeeping situation and have a number for you within a week or so. We are confident that a Legacy Package can give you significant savings.