The Challenge of Business Bookkeeping Services And Solutions

Launching any startup or running a business is never an easy task. Many businesses face similar issues and recurrent themes. In this article, we will look at common business bookkeeping challenges and offer our solutions, success, prosperity, and safety to overcome.


Are your business bookkeeping services lackluster?
Do you feel like you are not receiving accurate information?
Do you receive reports irregularly?


If so, then you are probably in the dark about key areas of your business finances. Perhaps bills are not being paid on time or invoicing is lagging. It is imperative that you have business bookkeeping services you can rely on and that means partnering with a bookkeeper with the experience and skills needed to truly meet your organization’s needs.

Business Bookkeeping Pain Paints

If you are experiencing the following problems,

• Data recorded inaccurately
• Fails to get work done on time
• Reports provided irregularly
• Bills not paid on time
• Clients not invoiced correctly or in a timely fashion

There’s a good chance your bookkeeper is failing you. Most bookkeepers don’t have an accounting degree. In fact, most of the ones you may find are self-taught or taught by someone else who was self-taught. That means they don’t understand how businesses truly function or how to set up best practices. Instead, they act more like a data entry person versus a skilled bookkeeper. When you don’t have a skilled bookkeeper, it's like flying blind.

Time Constraints

As a business owner, you are probably stretched thin and burning the candle at both ends to stay ahead of the competition and take your business to the next level. You just don’t have the time needed to focus on finances or you have hired a family member or friend to act as the company’s part-time bookkeeper. While the price point may be attractive if your bookkeeper isn’t strong and experienced you might start to sink and lose direction.

Does your bookkeeper currently:

• Record expenses?
• Pay employees?
• Oversee expense reimbursements?
• Pay bills in a timely fashion?
• Invoice your clients?
• Collect past due accounts?
• Give you meaningful reports every month?

Not getting these basics down solid means your business isn’t running as well as you might think and your current bookkeeper is not the trusted advisor that you need to thrive and grow.

If you don’t know where to start with the process of building internal bookkeeping, we invite you to give us a call. Our approach to business bookkeeping services is to provide you with not only trusted bookkeeping, but also the oversight of accounting, controller, and CFO services so you can focus your efforts on other crucial areas of your business that need your attention. We are a full-service financial team that doesn’t cut corners. With nearly two decades of proven results, we provide you with the following:

• Stability
• Guidance
• Strategy

Lack of Financial Reports and Data

Entrepreneurs and business owners often feel like they are left in the dark when it comes to financial reports and data. They simply don’t have the time or background needed to read and interpret the information successfully. You might know exactly how to launch a startup and run all the aspects of your business but falter when understanding a profit and loss statement or the ins/outs of payroll, customer acquisition costs, and more. No one is a jack of all trades. It's okay to reach out to a trusted and skilled financial team like Clarisent when you need guidance and to maintain your business’s onward momentum to success. Our team examines everything closely for optimum data integrity when providing business bookkeeping services.

Management of Financials Has Become Complicated

When your financial statements become too complicated then it's time to simplify things. Technology acts as a great tool in the process when used by financial professionals. Our team tracks down your company’s problems and uses an initiative-taking approach to rapidly solve things via both manual and innovative technologies. Our goal is to simplify the data and ensure that you understand your business’s financials so you can continue to make the proper decisions to advance your company.

Clarisent has a robust dashboard personalized for clients called the ClearView™ Dashboard. Great bookkeeping results in numbers you can trust and use to make smarter business decisions.

Lack of Consistency and Responsiveness

Are you currently using business bookkeeping services, but they provide you with very little consistency? If so, then it’s time for a change. Partnering with Clarisent provides business bookkeeping services that not only have your back but act as stewards on your financial journey.

When you first launched your company, you might not have given hiring a bookkeeper a second thought. Maybe you picked a family member or trusted friend. Or maybe you hired someone you thought looked good on paper. Initially, things probably worked out okay, but once your organization started to grow, things became complicated. Your current bookkeeper might not know how to automate systems or miss crucial details which can put your business at risk of failing.

Frequent and accurate bookkeeping affords your company the greatest chance of survival. With many startups perched on the edge of success or failure, having consistent bookkeeping can form a strong framework to ensure prosperity.

Not being 100% confident with the work your bookkeeper is doing could be one of the many reasons your business is keeping you up at night.

Your business is telling you where it’s at this very moment.  Do you speak its language?

Every decision you make, every step you take in your business produces a result. They can be good ones, bad ones, and even neutral ones. Every single result shows up in your business as a number. Numbers are the language of business. It takes real experience and knowing how to speak this language to interpret what they mean. That’s what we do at Clarisent.

With over two decades of speaking numbers for businesses with $1-8 million dollars in revenue, often with complex accounting needs, our passionate strategy financial services team takes a compassionate front-view / rear-view strategic approach to financial stewardship and forecasting, and reaching financial goals. We provide affordable, outsourced bookkeeping, accounting, controller, and fractional CFO services for small and mid-sized businesses.

The most successful financial strategies for a business comes from a team that offers reliable support and peace of mind. We pride ourselves on being flexible and solving problems unconventionally. We are creative and strategic. Not often found with strategic financial services. Our focus is on the goals of our clients, not just the bottom line. We are about the lives that the numbers serve.

To us, success is not solely financial. It’s personal. It’s setting, tracking, and achieving life goals as well, Better relationships. Better health. Happy staff. Giving to causes that make the world a better place to live. Feeling fulfilled emotionally, mentally, and physically. All of these riches are possible as the CEO of your own business. We don’t just say they are possible. We are certain they can be achieved.

Clarisent Certainty Pyramid™

EXECUTIVE SUPPORT & STRATEGY

Strategic Planning
Revenue Growth
Profitable Decision Making
Stakeholder Management

Annual Strategic Financial Plan
KPI Development
Fundraising
Acquisition/Exit Planning

EXECUTIVE SUPPORT & STRATEGY

Strategic Planning

Revenue Growth

Profitable Decision Making

Stakeholder Management

Annual Strategic Financial Plan

Budgeting

KPI Development

Fundraising

Acquisition/Exit or M&A

MANAGEMENT & REPORTING

Management &  Monitoring

Accurate Reporting

Deep Analysis

Internal Controls

KPI Management

Improvements & Recommendations

Cash Flow Management & Projection

Profitable Decision Making

CPA Support

Business System Check-up

MANAGEMENT & REPORTING

Management &  Monitoring

Accurate Reporting

Deep Analysis

Internal Controls

KPI Management

Improvements & Recommendations

Cash Flow Management & Projection

Profitable Decision Making

CPA Support

Business System Check-up

DAILY OPERATIONS

DAILY OPERATIONS

Data Entry

Expense Management

Vendor Management

Data Entry

Expense Management

Vendor Management

Invoicing

Payroll

Invoicing

Payroll

DAILY OPERATIONS

Data Entry

Expense Management

Vendor Management

Invoicing

Payroll

To accomplish this certainty and clarity yourself, you would need to be your own:
BookKeeper

A ground-level day-to-day manager, categorizing all business transactions, handling bills and invoices, reconciling bank accounts, and preparing key monthly reports. Taking the daily, weekly, and monthly financial pulse of your business.

accountant

A highly focused specialist, compiling, analyzing, verifying, and preparing financial records. Creating documents to ensure lawful, efficient, and compliant business practices and making sure you are ready for taxes.

controller

A high-level strategic manager overseeing all financial tasks and reporting procedures. Supervises and guides your bookkeeper and accountant.

CFO

A highly experienced, specifically skilled leader responsible for tracking cash flow, financial planning, analyzing your business’s financial strengths and weaknesses, and proposing strategic directions.

Every one of these roles offers a unique and critical vantage point that supports you and your ability to make decisions to grow your business. How can you expect to take on each of these critical roles and still be able to lead from your strength? Which is your big vision. Honestly, you can’t.

It’s no wonder you are:

  • Making bad decisions due to unusable information
  • Frustrated with your bookkeeper
  • Worried about making payroll
  • Making wrong turns
  • Experiencing stagnant growth, or worse, going backward
  • Unable to seize opportunities when they arise
  • Losing money despite it coming in
  • Losing excitement for your business
  • Sacrificing your physical and emotional well-being
  • Losing your faith and confidence
  • Losing sleep at night

Why our clients sleep well at night

These are the 7 crucial financial factors Clarisent always has it’s eye on to ensure that you maximize your financial decisions:

Profitability Dynamics

If you are unaware of your inventory, manpower and operating expense details, you can miss important profit dynamics. With Clarisent looking deeper at your cost structures, you can consolidate vendors, reduce product costs and reduce shipping and labor costs with an eye to increasing your margins. This factor can result in thousands of dollars in potential savings or operational efficiency that goes directly to your bottomline.

Vendor Oversight

Vendor Oversight

You can trust that with Clarisent, money flows to keep your business humming. We work to balance your inflows with your outflows so you don’t face temporary deficits. We help you collect money faster and ensure that payments are made to the right people at the right time.

Proactive Financial Reporting

Don’t spend valuable time each month forecasting sales and income projections, thumbing through tax forms or creating expense spreadsheets. Clarisent can save you time and money through proper preparation, organization and month summaries of all key performance indicators, including:

Sales
Expense
Profitability
Marketing Performance
Financial Account
Cash Flow

On-Demand Insights

A detailed chart of accounts and accurate reporting maximizes your productivity, gives insight for better planning and builds trust with shareholders, investors and creditors. With proper procedures, you can rely on the financial data that we provide. Clarisent’s full service clients enjoy our near real time ClearView Dashboard™ complete with insights and recommendations that will help you make smarter business decisions. On-demand fractional CFO support calls are included as well.

Profit Expansion

It’s not enough to know what you did in the past. It’s also important to look forward based on the past and see what’s coming in the future. Successful businesses use profit and cost centers to monitor their activities and manage cash flow. Clarisent clients use our proven financial systems to illuminate what they should do next.

Key Performance Indicators

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) measure key business drivers and the correct focus is placed on performance, strategic planning and operations. Clarisent provides you with a personalized ClearView Dashboard™ so you can make better financial decisions.

Financial Strategy & Support

A business is only as successful as the team they have in place. Clarisent provides navigation, strategic planning and results-driven advice to their clients at the fraction of the cost you may pay to hire a CFO.

Back to where you are right now. Big vision, flying blind, and not sleeping because you are unclear where your business is financially today.

Wouldn’t it be better if you:

  • Have laser clear and highly usable data from your business so that you can make better decisions every time?
  • Have trackable financials that clearly aligned with your goals and vision?
  • Have a precise snapshot of your cash flow at your fingertips?
  • Can predict your business’ future despite uncertain times?
  • Have an open door to capital and financial growth and protection tools so that you can take advantage of opportunities when they arise?

All of this is yours today for free.

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