A brief YouTube #short by Bob Gauvreau arguing for outsourcing accounting and bookkeeping. Core claims: outsourcing preserves institutional knowledge and continuity (faster backfill), returns significant time to business owners, provides higher-quality training and work through professional teams, and offers peace of mind that tasks are done correctly.
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Let's talk about why we should outsource accounting and bookkeeping. Why would there be benefits in outsourcing any of this instead of bringing it in? It takes a long time to train somebody and get them up to speed. If you were to outsource your bookkeeping function instead, the organization has that knowledge. So even if someone within the organization were to transition, someone else can come in quickly and fill that void so that there's no lost time, no lost information efficiency for you as a business owner. If you outsource this, you're going to get a lot of your time back. A lot of times we see business owners spending a significant amount of time doing their own bookkeeping and really not knowing what they're doing. The quality and the training inside a professional outsource group is so much more enhanced than what you can bring in for one individual. Really the sleep at night factor is a huge component. Knowing that everything is being done right and that organization is responsible for that level of quality.