Accountant, CPA or Bookkeeper?

You have started your business and things are going great, now you decide you need some help with managing your books, you open the yellow pages and under accounting you see, CPA's, Accountants and Bookkeepers. Which do you choose? Which one would be good for your small business? And what's the difference?

There are differences, and one of those differences will be cost, and as you have learned when you started your business cost will be a factor in almost every business decision you make. Which one will get you the most for your businesses dollar? That's a question you will have to decide depending on the services you think you will need.

A CPA (Certified Public Accountant) will be the most expensive choice, and in my opinion, too much for a small business starting out. Depending on what you need a CPA's rates can run you an average of $250.00 to $500.00 a month and if your not in need of financial consulting or having tax problems, in my opinion you will be paying an unneeded expense on a service that wont be utilized for your business.

An Accountant can do the same things as a CPA the difference is about a 4 year degree and the required exams to be a certified public accountant, there rates wont be as high but the end results will be the same, there average rate will range from $200.00 to $ 400.00 a month with basically the same services.

An arizona cpa and an Accountant will both do fine jobs for you, but it will cost you more than what you need to spend for something as small as managing your books, which is what you will be doing as a small business. You will take your books and all your receipts and bank statements to the account or CPA and they will hand all that to their bookkeeper who will get your books in a manageable and clean order at the rate of the accountant or CPA.