Why Does It Make Sense To Train Your Employee With the Professional Bookkeeper Program?
If you are considering training one or more of your employees in accounting and bookkeeping skills, like with anything else, you need to know what's in it for you. Whether you run a department in a large corporation or own a small business, maximizing profit on every employee is one goal of management. The Professional Bookkeeper program does just that. It gives employees the hands-on training to do accounting and bookkeeping tasks well beyond what they now are capable of.
Because the Professional Bookkeeper course focuses on practical application and learning by doing, you will be able to put your employee's skills to work in real-world applications. Because the Professional Bookkeeper course is a condensed, in-depth study of accounting and bookkeeping skills, you could benefit from your employee's new skills in as little as 4 weeks.
Cut Costs
If you currently hire an outside accountant to help with your books, utilizing employees that you already are paying makes a lot of sense. Not only will you likely pay less for the same services, but having in-house talent gives you more control over their availability and prioritization of tasks. With an employee, your priorities are their priorities, so they are there to help in a more timely manner than outsourced accounting help.
Cut Down On Your Workload
If you are a small business owner, you likely wear a lot of hats. Handling your company's books is likely one of them. Most likely, you didn't go into business to be a bookkeeper. Having one of your employees handle the books frees you to do what you went into business for . . . to make money. You want to grow your business. Having an employee do your books for you gives you greater focus on doing the things that make you more profitable.
Advance Your Employees' Skills and They Can Do More For You
The Professional Bookkeeper course will give your employee the hands-on training to do actual books, reports, journals, and even the general ledger. When your employee completes their training in as little as a month, you have a valuable resource that is cross-trained to do many tasks that may be well beyond their capabilities now. Even if they have the basic bookkeeping skills now, the Professional Bookkeeper certification gives you confidence that your books will be accurate and done in accordance with accounting standards and laws.
Promotion From Within
When your employees cross-train in accounting and bookkeeping skills, you have created assurance that even if your current accountant or bookkeeper leaves your service that there is someone in the wings that can pick up where they left off. It isn't enough to know that you can hire someone else that can learn your system in time. It give great comfort to know that you have someone to fall back on that not only knows how to do books, but knows how to do YOUR BOOKS. Few businesses can afford the kind of downtime that a change in accounting personnel can cause. Bills need to be paid and collected to preserve your credit and ensure continued cash flow. When a mountain climber scales a cliff face, they drive in anchors every so often to make sure that if they fall, they don't fall too far. Similarly, having more than one accountant that knows your books ensures that your business can survive an accountant's temporary or permanent absence.
Reward Your Employees and Increase Employee Retention and Loyalty
A large percentage of today's accountants and bookkeepers are baby boomers nearing retirement. It is predicted that this will create a shortage of qualified accountants and bookkeepers across all business sectors. One major problem that many business owners begin to face is competition for good accountants.
It is no news to you that turnover in an organization can be very costly to your business. The cost to train a new employee often is much greater than the cost to keep a good employee that you already know has good skills and possesses strong work ethic. When an employee seeks additional training, these are the employees with drive, the self-starters. They often have the drive to move up or move on. In times when employees with a passion to learn and to achieve seem harder to find, keeping the really good ones just makes good business sense.
If your employee performs well in the capacities that you have given them, giving them additional responsibilities and opportunities shows that you notice the work that they put in and want to reward their efforts. When you show your workers that you are willing to make an investment in them, you build loyalty that makes them strive to never disappoint, to never let you down. Demonstrate your trust in your employees and they will never want to break that trust. Show your employees that you think of them in the long-term and they will picture themselves with your organization for a long time because they feel that their efforts are noticed and rewarded.
Get Free CPA-Level Support
One of the unique benefits of the Professional Bookkeeper course is that your employee has access to bookkeepers, accountants, and even CPA's that we have on staff to answer even the most challenging questions. If you have ever hired a CPA to get help with your accounting, you are aware of the pain of paying between $100 and $200 per hour for their help. Even after your employee has finished the Professional Bookkeeper program, they can still get help with business issues that you might have for months after graduation. At $100-$200/hour, you could quickly pay for the entire course with just a few questions answered. In the Professional Bookkeeper program, it's all included.
Invest In Your Employee and In the Stability Of Your Company
Give your employee a chance to learn new skills and you reward an employee for a job well done. You create employee loyalty that is proving more and more rare. You get an accountant that knows your books should your accountant or bookkeeper leave for vacation or another employment opportunity. What's more, employee training is even tax deductible!
For Employees Seeking Educational Benefits From Their Employer:
If you are presently employed and would like your employer to see the benefits of providing Professional Bookkeeper training to you, highlight the Web address in your browser, right-click on the selected Web address, and select "Copy" to copy the Web address. Then you can paste the Web address into an email to your employer to illustrate why they might want to advance your accounting and bookkeeping skills. It will answer for them, "What's In It For Me".
OR, simply print this page and pass it along to your employer. You will be more useful to your employer and learn skills to keep you challenged. You both win.
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