Building the best business starts with a strong financial base, which starts with timely and accurate bookkeeping. But there are other steps to creating a successful company, too. Here at AccountingDepartment.com,...

Any business is only as good as its service, and the service is only as good as the employees. When you hire a virtual accounting firm, we know that you’re really buying: Someone you can trust...

All bookkeeping software is not created equal. But neither are all bookkeepers. At AccountingDepartment.com, it’s a combination of our skilled, trained virtual bookkeepers and the accounting software...

Employee theft and corporate fraud occurs for a number of reasons. Sometimes, employees having financial difficulties will think stealing from their place of business will solve their problems. Usually...

Unscrupulous in-house bookkeepers have many ways to commit fraud. Fortunately, if you keep an eye on your books, as a business owner you have just as many ways to notice and stop fraud before the losses...

In 2004, AccountingDepartment.com launched our business to provide U.S.-based businesses with U.S.-based virtual accounting services. It made sense to draw on the large pool of national talent, rather...

AccountingDepartment.com’s co-founder Dennis Najjar, CPA, recently appeared on The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast, a weekly technical podcast produced by ThoughtBot. On the...

When you hire and onboard a new in-house bookkeeper, chances are you do some training and outline their job duties. But if they’re just not getting it, missing deadlines, wasting time or or calling...

Many small-to-mid-size business owners struggle with accounting processes. They’ve tried to do it themselves and failed miserably, been through multiple bad bookkeeper hires, and they know that their...

As a high-end, high-profit, rapidly expanding business, you’re accustomed to giving your customers only the best. But is that how you treat yourself, too? To consistently deliver the best, you need...