Professional Bookkeepers invest 10,000+ hours mastering their chosen profession, and they continue to learning.
Regular Bookkeepers learn bookkeeping by experience.
Bad Bookkeepers learn bookkeeping by experience and over-paying taxes, fines, penalties, not invoicing work, overpaying bills and late fees. They have bad intentions and cause lots of grief.
Bad Bookkeeper Traits From Most To Least Dangerous:
1. They train the contractor like an organ grinder trains a monkey
2. They refuse to invest time and money in continuing education because they know everything
3. They are passive aggressive and know how to manipulate everyone
4. They gain power over you, your staff, and new employees and outside suppliers
5. They hate change and will fight tooth and nail to stop it, or they will destroy your company
6. They know you're responsible for taxes, fines, penalties and interest and they use it to get even
7. They know how to increase your quarterly tax return costs
8. They understand that bookkeeping is 90% repetitive and 10% compound
9. They don't know what to do with complex transactions, so they bury them
10. They have side jobs with other companies or an entire bookkeeping business
11. They decide how much integrity your company has, and they tell everyone who will listen
12. They create a miserable work environment, cause staff turnover which costs you money
13. They make your customers and clients feel unwelcome which costs you money
14. They act as if they are serving time in jail and do the minimum required to keep their job
15. They say things to suggest construction company owners are the worst people on earth
16. They are jealous of your success and worse if they ever failed in business
17. They don't learn anything new because nobody is reviewing the QuickBooks
18. They never learn anything new unless the company pays for the training
19. They quit when the tax return is being prepared because QuickBooks is a mess
20. They come in a little bit late every morning and leave a little bit early
21. They bait you with drama, nasty comments and minor actions to the limit of your tolerance
22. They get even with you for every perceived injustice against themselves and society
23. They keep you busy to divert attention from messy QuickBooks
24. They let you think you are in control until it is too late
25. They make you believe they are looking out the best interest of the company
26. They let the work expand to fill whatever time you are willing to pay them to get it done
27. They become indispensable to hold you hostage
28. They take time off whenever they please
29. They negotiate for perks, benefits, and elimination of accountability
30. They network for a better job with your clients, suppliers, vendors and your competitors
31. They represent themselves as someone with decision-making authority
32. They text, message, e-mail, surf the web, chat on the phone and socialize on company time
33. They train you to leave them alone by getting upset or angry whenever you want anything
34. They cause just enough chaos, so you do not earn more than them
35. When your business fails, they tell everyone you were incompetent, and they saw it coming
36. They live in a chaotic, neurotic, psychotic, selfish, disorganized, blame game environment
37. They work through lunch to leave earlier in the day
38. When they quit or get fired expect to hear: “Chaos, panic and disorder...my work here is done.”
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