BuyerZone users' accounting and bookkeeping service requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their accounting and bookkeeping service purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of accounting and bookkeeping services other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: accounting and bookkeeping service purchasing requirements

"Incorporating a business to purchase, develop, and own other businesses."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Montgomery, TX

"We are a human resources consulting firm with 8 employees and positioning for growth. We are currently using our office manager to perform accounting services and now looking to outsource the function."
-- Partner/Principal, Other Business Services, Long Beach, CA

"Small market cable television based music video broadcasting station. Video transmission is done by means of a computer automated playout system, through a fiber optic cable to the cable provider station. Revenues come from sponsors and advertisers. Personnel is kept to a minimum."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Fort Myers, FL

"Exporter company, exporting industrial supplies for latin america & caribbean."
-- Partner/Principal, Equipment Sales & Service, Boca Raton, FL

"Residential Cleaning Service. Seeking a CPA who can perform an audit for year 2006 so we may place this audit in our UFOC."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Consulting, Midlothian, VA

"We are importing and wholesaling general merchandise and gift items. We keep inventory of our products. We have and do ourselves account payable and receivable."
-- Office Manager, Wholesale, Palm Coast, FL

"I am shutting down this business and am behind on my Federal Income taxes. I have yet to file for 2005 and 2006. I need someone to help me finish these. I should be getting tax credits or owe very little, since I lost quite a bit. I have most of the expense info in Excel, payroll info from PrimePay reports and income info from the POS system."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Information Services, Cary, NC

"We are in the planning stages of a Residential Property Management company. We currently offer one specialty service and we're planning to provide more services in the future."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Burlington, NJ

"R. E. Holdings International, Inc., a Private Equity Management Service Corporation, an idea born, organized in 1991, to own stock in and manage one or more Corporations/and or ventures in widely different business areas. The Corporation’s long-term research initiative of December 1991 targeted managing operations for competitive advantage through human resources, create and access key variables that influence the firms external/internal environments while continue to manage the knowledge-based enterprise as the Global economy and the society moves along with the millennium and beyond."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, La Habra, CA

"Currently in process of buying retail business w/ partner, thinking about going LLC. Need some advice on what kind of tax service i might need. Also, have some special requirements about partnership."
-- CFO, Retail, San Francisco, CA

"We are looking for a firm to help us with our personal finances if we feel that its a win win then we will have that firm help us with our companies bookkeeping."
-- Partner/Principal, Wholesale, Corona, CA

"I own two buisneses on is a construction buisness .I usually have 3 employees but i sometimes have to bring on more for different projects. My other buisness is custom closet organizers .I subcontract the mill but i do the sales and advertising."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Eagle, ID

"Manufacturing, 16 employees, prefer to have someone who can use Made2Manage remotely to do the accounting; documentation will be scanned and stored on a remotely-accessible hard drive or similar; we create/submit state tax and payroll returns for CA and CT; prefer to work with someone within 1-2 day UPS Ground service for situations where hardcopy documentation is required; 100 AP checks per month; 75 AR checks deposited per month; bi-weekly payroll; inventory control required."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Palmdale, CA

"My Business is a multiservices company withPest Control Management as main fonction.Its also fonctions as a locksmith office."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Washington, DC

"The business is currently a web based environmentally, ecologically correct shoes and apparel company based out of Illinois. The land based stores will be in Illinois and Colorado to start."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Retail, Fox Lake, IL

"I have a small sandwich shop in the downtown area of charlotte north carolina."
-- General Manager, Restaurant, Charlotte, NC

"This is an estate situation, one of the primary business owners has passed away the remaining partners will need help to pay personal and business related bills, and create the tax return. The business is rental property both commercial and apartments."
-- Consultant, Real Estate, Fountain Valley, CA

"Sports facility, rental of indoor sports arena, manage youth and adult leagues."
-- Accounting/Finance, Other Business Services, Marshfield, MA

"Real estate investors. We buy houses, renovate and sell. We also buy rent homes to customers. This occur in different states."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Real Estate, Bowie, MD

"Line of bake goods sold at farmer's market and grocerie store."
-- Buyer, Wholesale, Richmond, CA

"We are a franchisee with four stores. Three in Ohio and one in Pa. They are candy stores."
-- Partner/Principal, Retail, North Fort Myers, FL

"Small retail, ecommerce business. Assume duties presently done by family member. * Daily: process packing slips into QB for inventory control (is sync'd with our web system). Adjust web inventory system for QB/web data mismatches.* Payroll: Issue bi-weekly checks on QB. Use Lathem Payclock 2006 data. Confirm hours (now 4 employees) before paying. Close Lathem time period every 2 weeks.* AP: Enter credit memos & bills. Pay bills each week. QB bill pay. Notify vendors of invoices paid. Resolve discrepancies. * AR: N/A at this time. * Reconcile: QB integrated bank/credit accounts. .QBO files may require manual download. Reconcile AP vs PO's for vendors charging credit cards. Pay credit cards (3) monthly.* Tax Reports/Payments: 2x/month Fed payroll tax. Qtrly 941s, unemplymnt, Iowa sales tax. Annual W2, W3, 1099. CPA does 1120S.* Financial Reports - Full monthly reports. Inventory presently 1-2x/year by adjustment entry."
-- Consultant, Retail, Iowa City, IA

"We provide residential and commerical landscaping services. We have currently 3 employees on payroll, and 17 accounts that we need to better manage billing/invoicing and accounts receivables, monthly Financial Reports and bank Reconciliation."
-- Office Manager, Other Business Services, Orlando, FL

"Beaver Lake Association, We have 1630 members that pay Dues, and 17 employees."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Plattsmouth, NE

"Management of various retail and office properties for private and investor owners."
-- Partner/Principal, Real Estate, Westminster, MD

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