Working at home as an accountant is one of the types of outsourcing. And like any outsourcing, it has its advantages for both the employer and the accountant. If you feel confident among numbers, transactions and invoices, you can try yourself in the role of a visiting accountant.
Instructions
Step 1
In order to find an accountant at home, you first need to identify a range of potential employers. The fact is that not every company can effectively cooperate with a visiting accountant. Successful and convenient cooperation for both parties depends on at least three factors: • on the volume of commercial transactions carried out per month, • from the number of employed personnel at the enterprise, • from the taxation system in which the firm is located. Since these issues are usually the responsibility of one accountant, the circle of employers with whom you can potentially work is limited to small firms, representatives of the so-called small business. It is difficult to define employers in more detail, since none of the objective criteria can become strictly defining.
Step 2
Submit an advertisement in the newspaper with the text "Accounting Services". Experience shows that finding employers will be difficult at first, but then, according to the laws of word of mouth, if you establish yourself as a worthy professional, entrepreneurs themselves will offer you a job.
Step 3
If your initial client sourcing isn't going well, try taking a job with an accounting outsourcing firm. Working in it will give you at least two useful skills for the future. • Firstly, you will gain experience of such work, which will be expressed both in communicating with clients and in the parallel accounting of several companies, which is a rather valuable quality for an accountant at home. • Secondly, you will acquire acquaintances and connections with small business leaders and entrepreneurs, as well as learn how to properly communicate with representatives of tax authorities, since contact with regulatory structures is also usually the responsibility of an accountant. With such experience and connections in the future, it will be much easier for you to find a job as an accountant at home.
