JenPM
Level 3

Talk about your business

 

Hmm. @ismattaxservice you mentioned to set up a new bookkeeping client. Do you mean a checklist that has everything  you should ask the new client for? Just want to clarify before I answer. 

 

As far as bookkeeping tasks go, that is a pretty comprehensive list without going into customer/vendor names. 

 

However, montly I also go through the transactions after I reconcile to determine if there are any duplicate transactions or any uncashed checks that are older than 6 months. 

 

Yearly I also go through the vendors to check for duplicate vendors. In addition I do a transaction detail by account which shows all your expense and income accounts and all the transactions in the period. I do this so I can glance over it and ensure that everything looks properly classified and nothing strange is out of place. 

 

Also yearly I go through  and clean up the chart of accounts. I see if there are any accounts that we never use or maybe accounts/sub accounts we need to add. 

 

Hope that helped :)