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    Accountants

    I got a call the other day from a accountant, we talked for about an hour. Is having an accountant necessary with having 30 accounts or should I wait until I have more business. Also do they help you save money or anything. Is it worth the money every month. Please tell me all you can. Clueless.[]
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    They really don't help you save money. What you are speaking of would be a business advisor or tax advisor. The accountant messes with the numbers that you allready have. The other 2 fiddle with numbers you CAN have.

    Do you need one or not? Well, it depends on your own number crunching skills and how comfy you are tracking everything. I have an accountant that I can call and ask info from. But I am able to handle most of it on my own. We have a good chunk of accounts, and employees, but I still do okay without much help. Some can hack it, others can't. If the whole process bothers you, look into having someone else do what you hate to do.....numbers.

    Quick Books Pro does a super job of tracking all numbers and payroll. I recommend it to help out. Just keep up with it. You should have a basic understanding of running a biz....or at least someone to call to ask the initial questions. Honestly, a couple of good business classes will be far better than a bunch of green industry classes you may take. I recommend that too jsut to get the understanding down.
    a.k.a.---> Erich

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      An accountant might prove helpful at years end to help prepare your business and personal tax return but for the bizz operations part, like S2K said ... Quick Books will sort it out for you.

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        i have a client that is an acountant who answeres my questions. Scaper is right quick books pro is a good program i use it. i bought it off the internet from intruit and got it for 200.00.
        we never truly grow as a person or acomplish anything until we step out of our comfort zone.

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          What exactly will Quick Books do for me. I also was just thinking about this the other day. Can I do my payroll tax withholding in it? I suppose if it did it would come with the tables.

          What are you guys using to do payroll for yourselfs (if incorporated) and employees? I am looking for that right now and am wondering if I should just pay someone like a payroll service. I also just got my coupons from the IRS, so we will need to start making tax deposits. I do need some advice on how you guys have these tasks set up, if you are doing it, or someone else.

          Thanks

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            Quick Books Pro is what you need. Yes, it does payroll. It does almost everything you need it to do for tracking your business.

            As far as the quarterly payments? Yes, it prints all that stuff out for you as well!
            a.k.a.---> Erich

            www.avalawnlandscaping.com


            Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day.
            Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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              Yes I looked at it and I will probable get it.

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                Whether or not you need an accountant depends on how much time you want to spend doing bookkeeping and filling out tax forms. At the risk of oversimplification, if you operate solo, about all you need to worry about is paying quarterly estimates until the end of the year when you'll compile the info for your personal tax return. If you have employees you'll have another wrinkle. You'll have to compute and file employees taxes withheld and the FICA match, unemployment taxes etc. Quickbooks, Peachtree and others have nifty programs to help with this but in the final analysis, someone has to put it together and send it in. If you don't want to fool with it, hire an accountant. If you want to handle it yourself, get the free publications from the IRS on business and individual tax and on employee withholding.

                FvStringPicker,
                A CPA in my other life

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                  Question to all:

                  For those using QuickBooks----are you also using another software program to track your actual jobs/customer payments, etc. I use Groundskeeper which allows me to do estimates, update customer list, basically everything a landscaper would need. What it doesn't do is anything with taxes or payroll. Although I can plug that in there, but won't compute stuff like that for you. So for those using Quickbooks, do you just use it for tracking costs (trucks, mowers, gas, etc.) and do payroll out of it as well as taxes?????? I see on their website you can buy the checks, W-2's and all from them, which sounds real nice. Please help with this guys, I am getting confused. Thanks

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