I have a small bakery and have been doing some of the bookkeeping with the assistance of a bookkeeper, but with the back and forth and me not being a total expert in quickbooks, I still feel I don't have a complete financial handle on how the cash is being earned and spent. So she proposed a flat fee where she would handle all data entry and such, and be able to communicate the financials to me through reports. On the one hand it's a bigger chunk of change, but it's actually not much more than the average I've been paying her hourly with little questions and projects here and there. And honestly I feel like I still don't know if I can take a bigger paycheck.

I guess the philosophical question is would paying an expert to handle gathering the info enable me to make better top level decisions? Perhaps even focus more energy on marketing?

I mean I can't do it all, the question is, can I pay for it?