Expense Tracking

What is Expense Tracking?

Expense tracking is another service a bookkeeper can do for you. It entails tracking and recording expenses through receipts and invoices. Your bookkeeper would have to organize your vouchers, invoices, receipts, and bills.
 
It is beneficial to conduct expense tracking. By staying on top of your expenses, you can monitor the financial health of your business. You wouldn’t want to go over your budget and fall short on cash.

Who Needs Expense Tracking?

1.    Businesses with Heavy Expenses
It is crucial for businesses with hefty expenses to track such cash outflows. It will be a shame if such companies miss out on excellent opportunities to reduce tax liabilities in the form of tax deductions.
 
Furthermore, with the outflow is significant as it is, leaving it unchecked can leave much wiggle room for errors. Who knows? By tracking your expenses, you may realize that a portion of them can be avoidable. After taking the appropriate measures, you can reduce the operating costs.
2.    Companies with Unpredictable Cash Flows 
If you think your business deals with unpredictable cash flows, you may need to conduct expense tracking to make sure that your expenses remain in reasonable ranges. Of course, with a bookkeeper, you can quickly know that someone is making sure that you get notified for extreme surges of cash outflows.

3.    Small Businesses
​Startups and small businesses have to do expense tracking primarily because of the tight finances on hand. Making sure that everything stays within a budget is crucial for a company to keep thriving. Every detail counts, especially if you're starting and making your way for bigger things.

How Will Expense Tracking Benefit Your Business?

1.    Better Money Management
Regular expense tracking ensures that you can manage your finances well. By looking at where your money goes, you can see if operations would be profitable and sustainable. You wouldn’t want to have your company end up at a loss with tons of debt.
 
By monitoring cash outflows, you can take immediate action upon irresponsible spending, extravagances, and avoidable costs. These initiatives reduce the risks of business failure.
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2.    Don't Miss Out on Tax Savings
Tax season can get you high strung even more, so if you don't track your expenses. With daily monitoring and recording, you can sort through your tax-deductible expenses. Staying on top of your deductions will make sure that you're not losing out on any money.

3.    Efficient Reimbursement
Expense tracking is also a great monitoring tool for reimbursements. Reimbursing your employees on time keeps them satisfied with work. Also, you can avoid the risk of reimbursing employees twice or giving out money for non-existent transactions. Think of expense tracking as another way of reducing the possibility of fraud within your ranks.

4.    Forecasting Made Possible
Daily recording of costs will eventually yield a pattern that helps with forecasting. As you forecast your expenses, you can make efforts to keep your revenue-generating units churning. Planning gives you a strong foundation for your strategies toward profit.​

General Bookkeeping

The modern business doesn’t work off the back of a cocktail napkin anymore. You’ve got digital contractors, monthly services, debt, invoices, purchases, sales, and constant cash changing hands. To understand it all you need to collate it all in a ledger that is easily understood and manageable. At Bookkeepers Columbia SC we thrive on the challenge of daily financial operations. If you want your books updated and managed we are your experts.

Financial Reports

Whether you are looking to provide reports to potential investors or current board members or just looking for a little bedtime reading financial reports can take an extensive number of hours to produce. They can take even longer if the people producing them aren’t trained in the art of financial storytelling. Make your numbers mean something about your company and your future. Tell the story of your financial success with the help of expert bookkeepers.

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Expense Tracking

How much have you spent on ink toner? Gas? Employees? Do you need to make cuts? Could you ask for a discount for bulk orders? Who wants to add up all of those receipts? Bookkeepers do. With their insight, they can keep track of your expenses and advise on how to better manage certain business actions. Empower your money by making informed decisions on what to buy and how to buy it.

Bill Payment

Simply put, you shouldn’t have to keep focuses your attention on the daily tasks of running the back-office of your business. You should allow yourself the time and focus on thinking about the future of your business. Bookkeepers help you focus on tomorrow instead of today by managing the routine bills and invoice management so you don’t have to. When you are ready to start daydreaming again, we at Bookkeepers Columbia SC are here and at your service.

We can help you with your Bookkeeping, Expense Tracking, Tax Preparation, and More. Call 803-573-9922 today.