How To Price Outsourced Bookkeeping In A Small Business – A Simple Guideline For Sellers And Buyers Of Outsourced Accounting

Pricing of a professional service is hard to get right. 2. We scan all your documents to Paperless and
Below is a sales letter that explains how we price orcapture your computer transactions.
bid outsourced bookkeeping and outsourced3. We can do 40 hours of bookkeeping in 20 hours. It
accounting in our 200 bookkeeping offices around thetakes us half the time to do books because we have
US.   It is a simple formula that allows the accountanttaken your office paperless and all our staff use dual
to be profitable, but provides the entrepreneur comfort24 inch monitors.  You save big.
that they are getting a fair deal.4. Over the next 90 days we install ‘best
For business owners – as you read this rememberpractices’ in up to 100 categories in your office.
the true burden rate of in house employees.   ForThis cuts your job cost by another 25%. Everything
every $1.00 you pay a bookkeeper it cost you onyou wish you had time to get done – we do, right
average $2.56 in total cost.  That’s known as thenow.
burden rate.Best of All! We do not assign one bookkeeper to
Even higher then the burden rate on a business is theyou.  We put 5 people on your team working on a
opportunity cost of not getting around to doing themanagement by exception process.  What that
important task compared to the urgent.  Bookkeepingmeans is low paid college kids read all your documents
requires a lot of management that pulls you awayovernight by hand and name them.  Then low paid,
from creating real wealth.work at home, data entry clerks ($10 an hour) who are
For accountants – the only reason this super lowgood at simple tasks like ‘enter a bill / pay a bill’
pricing works is that by using Paperless Overnight yourdo 80% of the low end bookkeeping.   When ever a
staff will be able to compress 8 hours of work into 4task takes over 2 minutes the data entry person
hours and within 90 days, they’ll be able to get itbumps the work up to an assistant manager whowe
down to 3 hours.   Even better the accountant canpay $15.00 an hour.   They can get almost the entire
use retired CPA’s or housewives to do much ofjob done, but when they are confusedthe work goes
the work at home.   We have 14 contractorsup to my retired work at home CPA’s who get
working for us at an average burden rate of 15.50 perpaid $22 an hour.    But the CPA usually only works
hour.  In the typical business or accounting office aone or two hours a week on your account so you
bookkeeper comes with a $36.00 an hour burdenonly pay for the actual time you need a really smart
rate.  Even better all our people are part time, so theystaff person.   Now those are my hard payroll cost,
only bill when they are working.the next paragraph gives you an idea of how the fees
This letter we send to local business people with 5 toare calculated.
100 employees explains the lower cost and how weHow we calculate the fee. We are twice as fast as
can deliver better service.your in house bookkeeper (because of Paperless
8020 Accounting LLCOvernight) and our burden rate for labor is ½ what
Box 2254 Casper WY 82602you pay.
This is a: S&P Certified LetterSo our bid process is simple.  If we pay $10 to enter
(Short & to the Point)transactions we charge you $20 and so on up the skill
Memo from KC Trubychain.  You have 100% open access to all time and
The Lonesome orbilling reports at all time.  In order to drive your cost
If you would like to get rid of your bookkeepingdown we’ll use the Paperless Overnight at $35 to
department to cut cost or drama, here is how it can$75 a week, but that is a low cost to get paper out of
be done with little disruption.your life.
Using new technology called Paperless Overnight, weIf your tired of bookkeeping problems and high cost
can link your bookkeeping computer to our office andyear after year after year we can help you right
we’ll do your books from down the road instead ofnow.  3 easy options to learn more….
down the hall.  In a few days it will be hard to tell1. Call our office at (local number) and ask for a bid
where not in the office 24 hours a day.  Your books2. Go to and get a free DVD demo by mail.
get done fast, accurate and for less then it cost now,3. Watch a live demo on Wed at 10AM Pacific at
but best of all no drama.when KC Truby the developer of Paperless Overnight
Here is how we do it for you.explains how the entire process works live from his
1. We convert your office into a Paperless Operationbarn in Wyoming.
– within 48 hours.