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Simplify Your Finances: Expert Bookkeeping For Self-Employed

When you first started your business, invoices, receivables, payables, and bookkeeping, in general, were simple back then. However, bookkeeping appears to be a massive chore as your business grows. Finances on the back burner while starting a business tend to spiral out of control as your clients grow.

Focusing more on your business can be challenging when you allow yourself to be burdened with such tasks. Good thing you can outsource bookkeeping tasks to a professional. 

Pearl Lemon Accountants have talents that will help you save time dealing with financial statements. With years of experience, you can ensure that output is error-free.

Don’t let yourself handle these things when you can outsource them. 

Contact with our certified bookkeepers today.

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Professional Bookkeeping Services for Self-Employed Success

Register Your Home-based Freelance Business

Ensure your freelance business operates legally and efficiently with Pearl Lemon Accountants. Our experts will guide you through the registration process, helping you choose the appropriate business entity and handling all necessary legal formalities, so you can focus on your work without administrative hassles.

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Because taxation and bookkeeping are different for each entity type, the tax form you must fill out will be determined by the entity you use.

You can register your business as a sole proprietor, a limited liability company, a corporation, a partnership, and a non-profit.

Since you do not have to form a corporation, your profit or loss will go on your tax return, and there are no regulations or bureaucratic administration to worry about, the sole proprietor/trader business is the easiest and cheapest to start.

However, your assets are not protected from litigation from your business or ongoing debts.

Bookkeeping Systems to Fit Your Business Needs

Choosing the right bookkeeping system is crucial for your business’s success. At Pearl Lemon Accountants, we assess your unique needs to implement the most effective bookkeeping solutions, whether single-entry or double-entry systems, ensuring accurate financial tracking and peace of mind.

Use Bookkeeping Software

Simplify your bookkeeping with Pearl Lemon Accountants. We integrate user-friendly cloud accounting software tailored to your business, ensuring compliance with the UK’s Making Tax Digital initiative and providing you with real-time financial insights to drive profitability.

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Reliable Bookkeeping Services to Keep Your Finances on Track

Stay on top of your finances effortlessly with Pearl Lemon Accountants. Our proactive bookkeeping services ensure timely invoicing, daily payment tracking, and monthly customer statements, so you can maintain healthy cash flow and focus on growing your business.

Business Expense

Keep the receipt as soon as you purchase with your bank card – do it at the store as you walk out to avoid losing the receipt. Take a photo of it and save it to an online filing system; then, you can toss the original or place it in your physical file system.

Once a week – If you made credit-card purchases, enter the bills into your bookkeeping software (a single-entry Cash Book spreadsheet will only enter payments of bills).

Reconcile your creditors once a month, between the 1st and 10th. If you make credit purchases, ensure you have all of the vendor’s invoices. Then, pay your bills on time. If you can’t, give them a call and arrange the payment; they’ll appreciate your honesty, and if you don’t, you will be hassled.

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Banking

As soon as you receive a check or cash payment from a customer, mark the payment against the invoice to ensure that it is not lost and that your cash flow is healthy.

Set up bill payments to your suppliers once a month if you use a creditors approach, either by submitting checks or by setting up direct credit payments online. Most vendors have the same due date for their bills; however, some will request payment sooner or later; process payments by the due date, which may require you to pay attention to this process more than once a month.

You must reconcile your bank account at least once a month to ensure that your bank transactions match your bookkeeping software or cash book on a specific date, such as the last day of the month. Make the required adjustments to ensure that the balance in your bookkeeping system corresponds to the balance in your bank account.

Reports

Examine your business reports once a month after your receipts, payments, and bank accounts indicated above have all been entered and reconciled for the previous month (Income Statement or a Balance Sheet).

To generate an Income Statement or Balance Sheet, you do not need to have received all customer payments or paid all bills. The sum of those unpaid invoices is recorded on the Balance Sheet.

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Bookkeeping Tasks You Can Outsource With Us

People choose to be self-employed because they have control and freedom over what they do. Hence, allowing them to have more time on their hands. 

As your business grows, your bookkeeping business and tasks will slowly turn into a time-consuming chore. Not soon enough, you’ll see yourself experiencing burnout from the job burden. Avoid this from happening and start outsourcing your bookkeeping to us.

Pearl Lemon Accountants can help you with the following:

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Repetitive Task

Repetitive financial duties such as AP (accounts payable) and AR (accounts receivable) are frequently outsourced to relieve overburdened business owners of the load of tedious work. 

Our expert bookkeepers can manage ongoing financial operations and report utilising small business accounting software. They are knowledgeable enough to set up recurring AP and AR to save time where business owners may be accustomed to manually entering these items each month.

Our bookkeeper will work around platform-specific constraints or offer a new system to manage accounting activities better. Our professionals can help you with your regular financial reporting to engage with investors and partners to develop more professional reports. 

We have the knowledge and ability to set up automatic reports for continuing financial demands and pull reports on an as-needed basis to inform business choices better.

Reconciling of Bank and Credit Card Statements

It can be challenging to reconcile business records and corporate bank accounts. If you have no prior expertise reconciling bank statements, you are more likely to make mistakes. It is, nonetheless, required for effective bookkeeping. Our expert bookkeepers can help you prevent mistakes and maintain your accounts in good standing.

Maintaining well-maintained documents is also essential from a legal perspective. Furthermore, governments in various nations frequently provide good plans for entrepreneurs who keep accurate financial records. Investors are more likely to be interested in businesses with clean records.

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Payroll 

We can implement and administer payroll software to simplify payroll processing and provide concrete benefits to employees, such as a direct deposit. Depending on the quality of the payroll software, it may also feature automatic local, state, and federal tax filing to help with that. As a result, your business will benefit from increased accuracy, while employees benefit from streamlined compensation.

Tax Obligations

Because there are so many potential errors for tax issues, business owners fear preparing and filing their taxes. Even when taxes are properly filed, there is always the question of whether money was lost due to unutilised tax write-offs. Our professionals can ensure that taxes are error-free and can uncover tax breaks to take advantage of.

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Save Time on Bookkeeping; Get a Professional

Being self-employed and managing all of your finances and taxes on top of your responsibilities is difficult. Good thing Pearl Lemon Accountants have the expertise to help relieve your worry about your finances.

Our professionals will keep track of the ins and outs of your financial record and ensure that it is well organised. We will also ensure that you won’t get anxious during tax season. 

If you need more accounting services- reach us, and we will always have a solution.

Frequently Asked Questions

Bookkeeping is more transactional and administrative, focusing on recording financial transactions. Accounting is more subjective, providing insights into your company’s financial health based on bookkeeping data.

Yes, you can learn how to manage your books. However, we recommended hiring a professional to avoid mistakes and streamline financial operations.

A bookkeeper who assists in basic bookkeeping typically charges between £25 and £35 per hour. If you want to know specific prices, give us a call.

When you allow us to keep track of your finances, you give yourself more time to do your work and please more clients. It's a win-win situation for everyone. Aside from that, you'll also gain financial stability because your assets and liabilities are managed well enough not to cause any trouble for you in the future.

So let our experts work for you, and you won't regret it even a bit.

Book a call today to get started.