I like having an extra employee around here to help with other things.

If you need someone to make coffee and fill his or her day with other small tasks, that’s great. But think about this: How easy is it to find a good bookkeeper that knows his work? A person that doesn’t just play around with bookkeeping software on the side, but WHO knows it upside-down and inside-out. Someone whose number one job is to maintain the books for you so you don’t have to.