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How New Freelancers Can Avoid Bookkeeping Stress

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How New Freelancers Can Avoid Bookkeeping Stress

One of the most important aspects of a freelancing business is getting ready for and paying taxes and receiving money from clients. This makes it crucial for freelancers to understand every aspect of bookkeeping.

by Lisbeth Mora, California Business Journal
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Bookkeeping gets a bit complicated when keeping track of your clients. It even gets more difficult when you have multiple clients and you have to keep tabs on how much and when they are supposed to pay you.

However, getting the right tools and making sure that you understand how to manage your finances is vital in avoiding the stress associated with bookkeeping. This will also help in tracking your clients and ensuring that payments are made on time.

With an accurate and consistent log of freelance activities, freelancers can monitor and understand their businesses better. They can also see how their money flows and get ready for business audits and the tax season.

Those that are finding difficulties in avoiding bookkeeping stress can follow these tips to get their freelance businesses going without any issues:

Get The Right System For Yourself

Since bookkeeping is a stressful task, freelancers need to find a system that works well for them. Technology advancement has made sure that we have access to multiple tools that can help one keep records of their financial data without any problems.

For instance, freelancers can use different software applications to organize their finances by managing their cash flows, tracking invoices, sending invoices, and rectifying their records.

Even though Parpera is one of the most popular tools used by freelancers, there is also a lot of debate about Xero vs MYOB. All these tools come with different features that are vital when it comes to bookkeeping for freelancers.

Track Your Work

If you are starting as a freelancer, you need to understand that freelancing comes with a lot of work.

To start with, you will be your own boss, meaning that apart from delivering work to clients, you will also need to manage yourself. To avoid bookkeeping stress, you, therefore, need to track all the work that you are involved in.

For instance, you need to track things like jobs you have worked on, the amount of time spent on projects, the cost of each project, payments you have received, payments that are pending, and all your expenses among others.

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Separate Professional and Personal Finances

It gets a little bit complicated when separating professional and personal finances for freelancers. To make this easier as a new freelancer, you need to ensure that you have different bank accounts for your personal requirements and your freelancing business.

This is going to help you avoid bookkeeping stress since it ensures that you have a clear visual of the amount of money that your business owns.

With that, you will find it easy when setting budgets for your business and costs for the services that you offer. This will also help in avoiding any future financial problems and evaluating the expenses that can be eliminated.

Strictly Follow a Set Budget

When starting as a freelancer, one of the most important things that you need to do is to set a budget. However, setting a budget is not enough to help you avoid bookkeeping stress, you need to strictly follow the budget.

Strictly following a budget that you have set yourself is important in managing your finances and making sure that you are prepared for the tax season.

Using accounting software can help you with this. They not only help you with accounting, setting your cash forecast and budget but also ensure that you have a clear view of all your expenditures. In addition, setting a budget is vital in helping you become financially disciplined.

Sending Invoices and Reminders

Freelancers might find it challenging to ensure that their clients make payments on time. The first thing to do is to make sure that you send invoices to clients after a project, or depending on your terms of agreement with the client.

Some clients might be held up with other tasks and might not make payments on time. You, therefore, need to send payment reminders to ensure that all payments are made on time. This will make sure that your freelance business stays operational.

Conclusion

Running any form of business is not easy. It gets even more difficult with bookkeeping for freelancers who are just starting up. Following the tips above can help them avoid bookkeeping stress.

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