A bookkeeping side hustle offers incredible flexibility. It allows you to balance work with personal life. It also opens opportunities to work with a wide range of clients from different locations.

Accounting Software Keeping your books accurate and up to date is something you are likely already on top of as a bookkeeper, so using services such as Xero, QuickBooks, and FreshBooks to automate some of your processes and organise/store your accounting data in the cloud.

Here's an easy way to think about it—bookkeepers lay the groundwork by recording financial transactions so that accountants can analyze financial statements and provide strategic recommendations.

Connect remotely to your client's computer to balance the books, just like if you worked on-site. Work through an online cloud-based bookkeeping software (such as QuickBooks Online or Xero) with your own secure login. Use the same desktop software you're used to, but accessed through a hosted virtual desktop.