Profitable Home Business Done Right

When I got my accounting degree I decided to open my own accounting business at home instead of joining a corporation. I knew that all I needed was a few good clients to get my home business up and running to make enough money to make it worth working from home. I knew I would need several types of accounting software in order to be ready for any client that may want to use my services.

I decided I would offer my services in doing payroll, billing, tax preparation, and overall accounting services. Quickbooks was the first package of software I purchased as I had worked with it for many years and found it to be incredibly helpful and easy to work with. It could handle almost all my needs in itself and I knew it was the perfect program to accommodate my business as new clients came in.

But I also needed excellent payroll software, not only for my own personal needs but for those clients who wished to hire me to manage their employee payroll. I found that the Peachtree complete accounting software would handle that aspect just fine. I had thought that I might need one more specialty program to complete my home office, but found that the two programs I had already installed completely filled in the gap where I thought I was lacking tools.

Once I had everything in order I began advertising and visiting local businesses to offer my services. It didn’t take long before I had eight clients needing accounting or payroll help and just like that my business was up and running. I made the right choices in buying the software that I did because all the business tools I could ever need were at my disposal.

I started my business over five years ago and now I am happy to say that I service over fifty clients for various accounting needs. I have hired two employees to help me and together, along with the wonderful accounting software I installed, we make light work of some very heavy demands. The Peachtree accounting software has been a real life saver. It does calculations and automatic updates that makes my job so much easier. I couldn’t imagine doing any kind of bookkeeping without the use of office software; I don’t know how they did it before there were computers.