Bookkeeping ROI calculator

How to use it

Enter the hours you or someone on your team spends on the books each month, what an hour of that person's time is really worth, and the monthly cost of the bookkeeping option you are weighing. The calculator compares the two over a year and shows the break-even point.

Be honest about the hours. Most owners count the time spent categorising transactions and forget the hours chasing receipts, fixing month-old mistakes and preparing numbers for the accountant at year end. Those are bookkeeping hours too.

What the result means

A positive figure means outsourcing or better software pays for itself in time alone, before counting fewer errors, cleaner tax filings and numbers you can trust when making decisions. A negative figure means keeping it in-house is cheaper on paper, which is common under about five hours a month.

The number the calculator cannot see is what you would do with the hours. For a founder selling or building, an hour is usually worth far more than the hourly figure typed in.

What it leaves out

Catch-up work when the books are months behind, which is priced separately, and the cost of a bookkeeper who is late or wrong, which shows up as penalties and bad decisions rather than invoices. EazeAccounts starts free, and the expert bookkeeping option is quoted on a call once we have seen the volume.