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Short-Term Placements
When your full-charge bookkeeper has a baby, a knee surgery, or an honest-to-goodness vacation, we slot in a co-op member who can sit down at your desk on Monday and actually find the general ledger.
A quick word about how we got here.
Back in '04, three of us were sitting in a diner off Route 17, complaining that every good bookkeeper we knew was either overworked or being low-balled by some out-of-state placement outfit. By the time the check came we'd sketched the whole thing out on a paper napkin: keep it local, keep it fair, split the work among people we'd trust with our own grandmother's QuickBooks file.
Twenty-some years later, the napkin is framed in a member's basement office and the co-op still runs on the same idea. Members pay a small annual share. When a local business calls with a need, we match them to whoever in the network fits the job and the commute. That's the whole trick.
What we are not
- Not a staffing agency.
- Not a CPA firm signing returns.
- Not taking walk-ins or cold inquiries.
- Not interested in growing past North Jersey.
What we are
- A roster of about three dozen working bookkeepers and accountants.
- A volunteer coordinator who answers slowly but answers.
- A handshake network, introduced client by client.