ProLedge Bookkeeping Services

Based in Austin, TX, ProLedge offers professional and affordable bookkeeping services to small businesses in the Austin and Houston metro areas.

Our goal is to address the 4 key issues typically faced by small businesses when trying to work with a bookkeeper: Find, Trust, Keep, Pay.

FIND - It is difficult to find a good bookkeeper. How can you tell how qualified a bookkeeper is since there are no official certifications out there? Anybody can wake up one morning and decide to call him/herself a bookkeeper. As a result, it can be a bit nerve-racking to put your company’s finances in the hands of a stranger.

TRUST - Once your bookkeeper is on board, how do you know if they are doing a good job? Very often, you have to wait until tax time, when the CPA gets involved, to discover that your bookkeeper made a bit of a mess. Fraud can also be an issue. Very few business owners perform a criminal background check on their bookkeeper.

KEEP - Turnover in the bookkeeping profession is notoriously high. Many bookkeepers take up bookkeeping in between jobs and often drop their clients once they find a full time job. Each time you lose your bookkeeper, it takes valuable time and money to hire and train a new bookkeeper.

PAY - Should you pay $20/hr or $80/hr for your bookkeeper? At $20/hr, you put quality at risk. At $80/hr, you are wasting money when it comes to mechanical tasks such as data entry and reconciliation. Why should a business owner have to make such a tradeoff between cost and quality? Where is the happy medium?