Did anyone else outsource bookkeeping and immediately regret not doing it sooner?
Been running my own books for 4 years. I'm not an accountant, never claimed to be. Just figured QuickBooks was simple enough.
Tax season this year was a wreck. Three weeks of evenings reconciling things I should have caught in real time. My CPA called me twice asking what certain transactions were and I genuinely could not remember. One charge from August was either a Facebook ad or a Stripe payout, no idea, still don't know.
I finally bit the bullet last month and brought on a remote bookkeeper. She's been doing weekly reconciliations for me. Already she's caught two sales tax errors and one duplicate vendor charge I'd have missed.
did anyone else wait way too long to outsource the books? And for those still doing it themselves, what's the actual breaking point? I'm wondering if I should have done this 2 years ago and saved myself the gray hair.