Often within the accounting community itself there is confusion between what is accounting, and what is bookkeeping. Forget the lay person and let's have a candid discussion. What services should you offer?

Some choose to refer to bookkeeping as write-up work, it's bookkeeping.

* Disclaimer, unfortunately there are some states where the terms accountant and accounting have been regulated such that regardless the services offered only CPA's or degrees accountants can refer to themselves as such. This is no different than a doctor doing the work of a nurse and still referring to themselves as a doctor. If you are paid to be a nurse, and you do nursing, your a nurse.

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