If you are a small business owner you know that it is hard to compete in today's business e-market and with office space being the cost that it is, it is even harder. You spend your day making sales and trying to bring money in and then you spend an hour or more a night placing the figure into your books. 

This is a tedious task that some people find that it is better for subcontractors to work out with other people. But with the help of a professional virtual bookkeeping service, a bookkeeper will allow you to send the receipts and invoices through email, communications equipment, or other venues that will allow them to adjust and to log your books down for the business day without you having to be involved whatsoever.

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At any moment you can pull up a display where your books are encased, you need the records for the IRS or you just want to know where your business stands on any given day. Or a virtual bookkeeper works only when there is work to do and not just taking up space, your time, and your money.

On the other hand, the traditional method of hiring a bookkeeper is having someone come over to your office and have their own space and sit and do your books. 

Sometimes you pay a nominal fee for the service but the most annoying and costly endeavor using a real bookkeeper is that you have to spend money for the space they are taking up in your office or you have someone that is in your office during the business day that could be a distraction.