Scaling with Virtual Assistants

Delegating Bookkeeping to a VA: What to Hand Off and What to Keep

A great bookkeeping VA can own AR, AP, reconciliations, and reporting. Here's what should still stay with your CPA.

5 min read Scaling with Virtual Assistants

What a bookkeeping VA owns

A QuickBooks- or Xero-fluent VA can own the day-to-day finance operations of a $500K–$10M business. The right division of labor with your CPA dramatically reduces month-end stress.

  • Daily transaction categorization
  • AR — invoicing, follow-ups, aging report
  • AP — bill entry, approvals, payments
  • Monthly reconciliations and a clean close package
  • Payroll inputs and basic reporting

What stays with your CPA

Tax strategy, year-end filings, audits, complex revenue recognition, and entity-level decisions stay with your CPA. The VA prepares clean books that make CPA work cheaper and faster.

Pick a cadence and stick to it

The biggest unlock isn't the work itself — it's the cadence. Weekly reconciliations, monthly close by the 5th, and a 30-minute Friday review with you. That rhythm pays back the investment many times over.

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