The record
Bookkeeping
Transactions captured properly, with a chart of accounts an owner can follow and a bank that balances.
A chart of accounts that sounds like the business
We do not hand you a generic template with forty unused codes. The chart follows how you talk: the departments, the branches, the vehicles, the family members on payroll. If a code will never be used, it does not get created.
Clean bookkeeping is what makes a later sale, a bank facility or a SARS verification boring. Boring is the aim.
Where owners usually lose the thread
Personal spending in the business account. Cash sales that never become an invoice. Supplier statements that do not match the bills. A “loan” to a family member with no record. We will ask about these in the first month, because ignoring them makes the profit figure a story.
What is included
- Opening balances agreed, or clearly marked as still open
- Processing of sales, bills, receipts and payments
- Bank and card reconciliation every month
- Filing of the source document against the transaction
- A query list, so nothing sits “ask client” for six months
Questions on this service
You need a readable record and the source documents SARS expects, kept for the required period. A clear digital file is enough for the way we work. We will tell you what must not be thrown away. We will not tell you to keep every till slip in a crate “just in case” without a reason.