Questions Before You Outsource Bookkeeping
Before a CPA firm outsources bookkeeping, ask who reviews the package, whose name the client sees, and whether the first file is a monthly close or a cleanup.
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Before a CPA firm outsources bookkeeping, ask who reviews the package, whose name the client sees, and whether the first file is a monthly close or a cleanup.
From the firm side, white-label bookkeeping is a package you can review and send out under your name. The client never sees the production.
Outsourced bookkeeping for a CPA firm means the firm keeps the client and the review. The production ships under the firm brand.
White-label bookkeeping for a CPA firm means the package ships under the firm brand. Autonomi Books does that work. A licensed CPA reviews it before the firm does.
The client package and the partner review package are not the same document. Here is what should carry your brand, what should never leave the firm, and how I tell partners to keep those lanes separate.
The software question is real. It is not the first question. Here is how I think about QBO vs Xero once production is leaving the firm.