Real work at home jobs - a never-ending niche business in bookkeeping!
If you are good with numbers and math, and basic skills in accounting, then you have a unique skill set that you can leverage to make money from home.
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding,
and that which is lost by not trying."
- Francis Bacon |
Doing bookkeeping from your home is quite simple, and it is a wonderful home based business for moms and dads anywhere in the world. As a bookkeeper, you work with individuals and/or businesses doing a wide variety of accounting tasks such as payroll, billing, audits, financial reports, tax planning and preparing tax forms.
You need to have a love for number crunching and be a very organized individual who can work on their own effectively. If you have education or experience in accounting, finance and business law, or taxation, then you could even work to acquire your CPA credentials, which would add a greater measure of credibility to your home company, but it’s not absolutely necessary in order to create a profitable business at home.
How much experience and training you have in these departments will determine the scope of services you can offer in this real work at home job.
There are, of course, some tools of the trade that you will need to have including a computer, copier, fax machine, calculator/adding machine, spreadsheet software, word processing software and database software.
There will also be additional software and reference books that will help you with your jobs including the yearly tax guide. The references and software that you require will also depend on the level of bookkeeping services you will be offering.
Start up costs for real work at home jobs as a bookkeeper will vary for equipment based on what you already have, anywhere from $1,500 to $4,000. There will be charges for reference books and software that you require for your services, ranging in price from $200 to $900.
You are also well advised to launch a marketing campaign for your home based business to drum up new customers, including the use of advertisements, marketing materials such as business cards and brochures. In addition, you should seek to have your own website, which can be done quite easily, in order to add credibility to your business with potential clients.
As a bookkeeper you can make $20 to $35 an hour which leads to an annual income of anywhere between $22,500 and $52,500 a year. CPAs make much more per hour, usually billing between $35 and $65 an hour.
The niche of real work at home jobs as a bookkeeper can be difficult to break into, but starting locally with business and community organizations is a good start. Establishing yourself as an expert with a particular industry can help you gain a good reputation for those types of companies and can help you zero in on your immediate market opportunities.
However, keep in mind that if you have your own website, your business opportunities are now global!
"Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff.
It's learning to live on less than you make,
so you can give money back and have money to invest.
You can't win until you do this.”
- Dave Ramsey |
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