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CEO and Founder of Kruze Consulting
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The taxes that you’ll need to pay depend on your unique situation, so it’s best to contact a professional. I’m a CPA/interim CFO and I work with over 650+ startups. Here’s an example of the myriad of filings and taxes that a VC backed Delaware C-Corp must pay:
Visit our guide to startup taxes here. We breakdown many of the questions founders have around tax time, including what to file when and which documents to retain.
A reasonable monthly time budget for startup bookkeeping depends on:
The volume of your transactions: do you have 300 transactions hitting your bank account and credit cards every month, or 10,000 transactions? More transactions = more time = more money.
The complexity of your transactions: even if you have relatively few transactions, they may be complex. For example, you may have prepaid Facebook $100,000 for advertising for the next year. You or your bookkeeper will then need to reconcile that account every month against what advertising amount you’ve actually used.
Doing the work yourself: if you can train yourself to do some of the bookkeeping, you can definitely save money. Two caveats though, 1) your time is truly better spent growing and managing your startup and 2) if you get it wrong it will very likely be expensive to clean up the books.
How you’ve leveraged technology: I can’t stress this enough… using technology will greatly reduce the amount of time (aka money) you have to spend on Accounting and HR. Here are my absolute essentials: QuickBooks, Gusto, Zenefits, Expensify, Bill.com, DropBox or Box, Gmail.
In sum, how much time you spend on bookkeeping depends on your unique situation. But just to give you an idea… If you are a Seed Stage DE CCorp startup based in SF, LA, NYC, or Chicago, have 10 FTEs, ~400 transactions a month and very few accruals… I’d say ~$650 per month.
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