How can an accountant make money online?
Turn your knowledge into money, earn extra income while working from home, or create your own business and say goodbye to the office.
Mastering alternative ways of earning money will help you stay afloat in any situation:
You are not satisfied with your current income and office job...
You are on maternity leave and urgently need money...
They retired, which is impossible to live on, but they have more than enough strength and experience...
What you will learn:
proven working strategies for making money on services and more
Marketing Basics
Sales channels
How and why you need to understand how many, when and what kind of clients you need, why make plans
How to get solvent and responsible clients, not freeloaders
How to set prices so as not to scare off the client, but also not to offend yourself
Where to start promoting services and where to look for clients
Dangerous points in the sales funnel - learning to eliminate them
Why do you need to conduct analytics and how to do it
We analyze and analyze successful client search cases in order to repeat someone else’s success
Selling site
Articles and content
Why is it critical for you to learn how to sell your services with words and how to do it
Without what elements even the coolest website will not bring you clients?
How to hook and more firmly tie website visitors to you and turn them into clients
What should the structure and language of the article be so that it brings you clients?
How just one article provides material for attracting customers on various platforms
How can an experienced accountant earn extra money - who will buy your knowledge for decent money?
Platform and upsells
Work organization
Why one sales channel = failure and how to combine all platforms for promotion
How to “shoot” sales as accurately as possible without wasting your budget
How to earn income from everyone who contacts you, even if he does not become a client
How not to forget anything or anyone, even if you have 100 clients and a full mailbox
How to understand whether a client is profitable and when to raise prices
How technical things can help in the work of an accountant and which ones to choose for the job
Professional
accountant,
tax consultant,
entrepreneur. Creator
blog "Emergency accounting
help" (attendance more
2000 people per day, regular audience
more than 15 thousand people). Experience in earning money by selling training courses and writing custom articles. Attracting clients for accounting services through a niche thematic website. Partner of Elba.Kontur, Profbukh, CO Active
Yulia Kochenkova Dina Krasnova
What participants in past training streams say:
Korchagina
My profession is accountant. Nowadays, a specialist in any profession must be able to competently present himself or, as professionals say, “sell” himself with all the ensuing consequences, and a creative approach is very important here. About a year ago, I realized that I needed to expand my professional horizons.
And completely by chance, in September 2016, I saw a post on a social network “Earnings as an accountant on the Internet.” This was a project by Yulia Kochenkova and Dina Krasnova. And since I had no idea how an accountant could make money on the Internet, I assumed that participation in this project would give me the valuable knowledge that I so lacked. Learning in this project changed my mind. I realized that before participating in it, I was sitting in an “old rusty tank.”
After participating in the project, I learned to plan my days, learned that there are freelance sites, created groups for professional communication on social networks, have online projects that bring me a stable income, and most importantly, I learned how to competently tell the world about myself and my , how can I help. And, by the way, a very interesting fact - I was promoted at work, and, as a result, my salary increased.
Some time ago I took the training course “Earning money on the Internet for an accountant.” Before taking this course, I was an employee and perceived accounting only in this light.
I would like to express my gratitude to Yulia and Dina for the opportunity to get acquainted with accounting as a business. I then looked through the course out of pure curiosity: what does it mean?
After getting acquainted with the material, I thought about it. Much water has flown under the bridge since that time. I made my own website. Now I am no longer an employee, but the owner of a small but stable business. I provide accounting services as a private accountant. In addition, I plan, one might say, one of these days to set up my business pages on social networks and administer them myself. I started writing articles on professional topics. True, this did not become an income for me, but turned into a hobby. I just really like writing articles in a way that makes complex accounting language understandable and accessible.
If any of the potential students are reading my review now, then I want to say the following: don’t hesitate, be sure to listen to this course. He changed my life. Once again many thanks to Yulia and Dina.
I am a professional accountant and now I work in one company as a chief accountant, the company is not very large and therefore the salary is not particularly satisfactory, so I decided to find something for myself on the Internet, so that it would be interesting, so that my brain would not stagnate and so that it would generate income.
Last year, in the fall, I found a course by Dina Krasnova and Yulia Kochenkova on making money for an accountant - I took it and began collaborating with these beautiful and smart ladies: I enrolled in 2 training courses on accounting, and conducted a seminar.
The main difficulty of working on the Internet is that it is not immediately clear whether you can trust a consultant or not; not all course teachers conscientiously teach what is stated in the course. Sometimes for a lot of money you can only get general phrases or part of the training. The same cannot be said about the courses and seminars of Dina Krasnova and Yulia Kochenkova - everything is clear, precise and to the point with them.
What I want to say to those who are just starting to work on the Internet - don’t be afraid to make mistakes, look for your business, look for good mentors - and then everything will work out. I wish everyone good luck!
Thanks for your hard work! A large amount of necessary and useful information was given, ways of making money on the Internet for an accountant were laid out - these are articles, books, video courses, creating a blog, consulting services, possibilities of the 1C program for remote work. Of course, the most important thing is to remember your words at the very beginning - there are no freebies on the Internet, there is no magic “money” button, you need to do this, and do it a lot. In order to become specialists within the offices, we studied at institutes, further advanced training, more than once, how much time and money! Constant self-education - monitoring news and changes in legislation, studying programs for accounting and reporting. And even with all this baggage, we are often not completely satisfied with both the work and the pay. The Internet is a part of modern life and this future is certain. And making money with it is the right and modern solution. For me, all this, first of all, is very interesting and I am sure that I will be able to deal with all the questions that arise while working on my project. Thanks again, good luck to everyone!
Gerasimenko
I learned so much useful information when I signed up, I didn’t even think that the training would be so useful. And most importantly, you inspired me to act and not be afraid, and I decided to leave my job and open my own company. Now there are even more questions, but I hope that you will not refuse to answer.
Yulia and Dina, thank you very much for organizing and holding such an interesting and useful event. Personally, I was interested in how to write articles on accounting topics, write books and create video courses, thanks to you, I understood what the specifics of accounting articles are and what is the algorithm for creating them.
I also really liked the webinar on affiliate programs and mailings; I realized that this type of income also requires material investments and time. Now, taking into account the acquired knowledge, I plan to master this type of income.
Once again, thank you very much for the fact that such professionals as you, Dina and Yulia, find the opportunity to share your valuable experience!
Alekseeva
Thanks a lot! I just received a ton of information! And special thanks for the stories about group administration. I realized that I need this and am already completing the VKontakte Administrator course! I started studying in parallel with your marathon. And I really like this type of activity! But if you hadn’t told me, none of this would have happened in my life. But I’m an accountant, and now I’m mastering a new type of activity. You are so erudite, you know so much, and the fact that you don’t keep your knowledge to yourself, but generously share it with everyone, is worth a lot! Thanks a lot!
The times when an accountant had to constantly be in a dusty office, surrounded by a pile of papers, have long since sunk into oblivion. The technological process has penetrated into the sphere of finance even more than into some areas of production. It is now possible to do accounting, generate and submit reports remotely, which means that a practicing accountant has an excellent opportunity to work without leaving home.
The demand for professional accounting services remains consistently high, and competent specialists are always in demand by employers. According to aggregated job search portals, accountant is one of the most popular vacancies. The number of offers for job seekers totals hundreds of thousands, including the possibility of remote work.
Who can become an accountant
It is worth mentioning right away that accounting services are not a type of income that is available to everyone, regardless of their level of education. Becoming an accountant will not happen overnight. An accountant primarily sells his professional knowledge and skills to the client. Therefore, it is important to have a specialized higher education or, at a minimum, complete accounting courses.
Often, courses take from 2-4 weeks to 2-4 months, depending on the class schedule and the amount of information. There is also the opportunity to learn the basics of accounting remotely through online courses. You can enroll in a correspondence or full-time department of a higher or secondary specialized educational institution, and in your free time from studying, work as an accountant at home. However, even the professional education received will not cancel the fact that an accountant must constantly modernize his knowledge and practice, monitor changes in legislation and innovations in accounting automation.
Before starting work, an accounting specialist must know and be able to:
- Know the rules for preparing primary documents.
- Freely navigate the chart of accounts, understand the essence of business transactions, and correctly “post” transactions among accounts.
- Be able to prepare tax, statistical, financial, management reporting. Understand how report indicators are checked (compared) with each other.
- Know the basic provisions of tax, labor, and business law. Be able to analyze laws, find interrelated explanations, letters and by-laws.
- Be able to use accounting automation programs and make electronic payments through a remote banking system.
In addition to professional skills, the following personal qualities of an accountant are important: resistance to stress, ability to work overtime, attentiveness, scrupulousness, perseverance.
An accountant who wants to become a freelancer and work from home must be outgoing and able to communicate himself and his professional skills.
It’s rare that an employer will entrust its finances to a person without at least talking to him in an online conference. Therefore, it would not be amiss to mention that an accountant must have a presentable and neat appearance.
Who is suitable for working as a private accountant at home:
- Experienced specialists who have reached professional heights at their previous place of work and are thinking about changing employers, but do not see worthy alternatives.
- For specialists who want to exchange routine office work for income with a more flexible schedule.
- Young accountants who cannot find a suitable job due to lack of adequate experience.
Workplace equipment
Let’s say you have the above skills, knowledge and qualities, so you decided to go “freelance” and provide services at home. The first thing to take care of is the organization of the workplace. Unlike organizing production, providing accounting services does not require significant investments in equipment; however, to work from home, an accountant needs:
- Modern personal computer. Powerful enough to store large amounts of information and work with remote servers; quite reliable.
- Reliable internet connection. Remote work with servers on which accounting databases are located, as well as sending payments through online banking and providing electronic reports - all this requires good high-speed Internet.
- A printer, or better yet a multifunctional device (printer, scanner, copier). Automation of accounting does not deprive the accountant of the need to print primary documents, reports, summary statements and registers. Sometimes you may need to make copies of existing paper documents; for this, at least a scanner will be useful.
- Telephone (landline and mobile). Of course, nowadays it is difficult to find a person who does not have a mobile phone. However, calling banks or tax authorities very often has to be done the old fashioned way, using a landline phone. In order to minimize your expenses, it is better to get both a landline and a mobile phone.
- Comfortable table and chair. An accountant is a sedentary job, so it is important to take care of your comfort and health. An uncomfortable workplace can lead to problems with your back, legs, and neck in the future, so it’s better not to skimp on yourself.
- Filing Cabinets. As mentioned above, some accounting documents will still have to be stored in paper form. Therefore, it is better to determine a place for them in advance. However, the cabinet is not a priority purchase; it can be purchased when the volume of clients, and therefore documentation, increases.
- Calculator and stationery. It would seem that in the modern world of gadgets, when there is a calculator in every phone and computer, you can forget about a stationary adding machine. However, it is much more convenient to quickly add up the numbers on a calculator. Stationery will be needed for processing and storing documents.
You will also need a webcam and a headset to communicate with clients, but these can be purchased as the need arises.
Often, the work of an accountant does not involve frequent communication with visitors, especially if you immediately position yourself as a remote worker. However, it would not be a bad idea to provide a place in the house where, if necessary, you can communicate with your employer or counterparty.
Don’t rush to immediately invest large sums in organizing your workspace. To get started, all you need is a computer, phone and printer. Everything else can be purchased as the number of clients and volume of work grows.
Search for clients
The most difficult aspect of working as a private accountant is finding clients on whom your income directly depends. It is most convenient to go into private practice if you already have at least one employer who agrees not to keep an accountant in the office, but to collaborate remotely. If there is no such employer, you will have to look for one in one of the following ways:
- On regional ad sites. It is rare when it is possible to conduct accounting completely remotely, without meetings with the employer and visits to the office. Perhaps, by mutual agreement with the client, you will be able to do the bulk of the work at home, and visit the employer 1-2 times a week to sign the necessary documents, resolve financial issues, and make cash payments. Therefore, it is a priority to look for clients in the city or region of your residence in order to minimize the costs of transport and business trips, as well as ensure the efficiency of solving assigned problems.
- On national and international job search sites. The search principle is the same as on regional sites - look for an employer closer to you. All-Russian sites offer more vacancies, which means the possibility of higher earnings. To search on international sites, you need knowledge of foreign languages, most often English. But knowledge of a foreign language is an additional plus on your resume and the opportunity to get a higher-paying job.
- On freelance exchanges. A freelancer is a civilian specialist who provides his services via the Internet. At the initial stage, programmers, designers, photographers and copywriters were regulars on freelance exchanges. Now, on many large exchanges there are entire sections dedicated to the topic “Accounting/Finance/Consulting”, where an accountant can publish a resume and find his customer. Often, the scheme of work on exchanges is as follows: the customer places a task, the contractor responds if he is able to complete this task. Some exchanges act as guarantors of the fulfillment of obligations by the parties to the transaction, others only help the customer and the contractor find each other. Almost all exchanges have a rating system - the better the quality of the task, the higher the rating of the performer. Accordingly, performers with higher ratings earn more.
Below we will look at the most popular exchanges where an accountant can find a client:
- https://www.weblancer.net/- more than 500 applicants who provide accounting services are registered on the exchange. The cost of accountants' services varies, some ask for their services $1-5 and others $10-30 per hour. Specialists receive the money they earn in their WebMoney wallet.
- https://www.fl.ru/- there are several hundred performers on the site providing accounting services. The cost of their work also varies, some “cost” 300-500 rubles per hour of consultation, others 5000 per month of work. To work more successfully on this exchange, you should purchase a PRO account.
- https://24freelance.net/- a relatively small exchange, with traffic of up to 10 thousand people per day. There are several dozen registered performers who provide accounting services. Some start from the hourly cost of work, asking 50-300 rubles per hour for services, others announce the cost for a month: 5-15 thousand.
- https://superbuh24.ru/- a young and small, specialized exchange for accountants. On it you can find both one-time tasks and remote, or permanent full-time work on staff. The cost of services is negotiated between the customer and the contractor.
Be prepared for the fact that in the early stages of establishing a private practice it will be difficult to find good clients. You may have to work a lot, but for little money. There is also a lot of information garbage on the Internet, when attractive offers of earnings hide network marketing, unnecessary customers, financial pyramids and fraud.
Consider each proposal carefully before you begin work. If possible, read customer reviews. This will save you from financial losses and wasted time.
To speed up the process of finding clients, it is better to use all of the above methods.
It is important to pay attention to your pages on social networks. Social networks can act as a means of promoting one’s name, in particular. For a remote worker, a page on a social network is a kind of “face”. Try to make your official pages more businesslike. Clear them of provocative, defamatory, ambiguous information, stupid jokes and pictures. According to statistics, most employers study the profile of a potential employee on social networks in order to confirm his competence. Subscribe to professional communities, you can repost news about changes in legislation or articles on professional topics. This will only “add weight” to your candidacy in the eyes of potential clients. By the way, social networks can also become a channel for finding customers, however, the risk of such transactions is very high, since there are practically no guarantees of payment.
In the future, to promote your name, you can create a business card website with a description of your professional experience, customer reviews, a detailed list and price of services provided. True, without investment in promotion, a site or group on social networks will occupy last positions in search engine results, so creating a site at the very beginning of the formation of a private practice is not worth it, since it will only entail additional costs without profit.
How much can you earn
The amount of earnings depends on several factors:
- Having professional experience;
- Estimated scope of operations and responsibilities;
- The region in which the company is located.
It is no secret that the salary of an accountant in Moscow and St. Petersburg is an order of magnitude higher than in other regions. In Moscow, you can find a part-time job as an accountant with the possibility of remote interaction with a salary of 15 to 45 thousand per month. In the regions, the minimum salary offer can be 5 thousand rubles for a part-time specialist. In general, if the time and volume of operations allow you to manage 2-3 clients at the same time, you can reach a good level of income with a flexible schedule.
The advantage of exchanges, compared to traditional work, is that you can find a well-paid project and in a short time earn an impressive one-time sum: 15-20 thousand rubles, or even more. But solid, highly paid projects for accountants on stock exchanges do not arise every day.
How to formalize a relationship
An important stage of remote work is formalizing the relationship with the client. An accountant is a person who is responsible for documenting transactions and displaying them in accounting records. Therefore, performing your work without documented obligations and guarantees is, first of all, unprofessional.
You can formalize a relationship with a private accountant using:
- Employment contract
- Civil contracts
- A business agreement, if the accountant is an individual entrepreneur or director of a company that provides accounting services.
It makes sense to draw up an employment contract if an accountant gets a permanent job, even part-time. The employment contract establishes a list of job responsibilities that are assigned to a private accountant. A GPC agreement is drawn up, as a rule, for one-time work with a specific result: restoring accounting records, entering documents into a database, submitting a report or conducting an inventory.
If you plan to register an individual entrepreneur or open an LLC to provide accounting services, include the amount of tax costs in the cost of your services.
Additional ways to earn money
The main activity of a private accountant is the provision of accounting services (accounting, financial, management). However, finding clients for ongoing service is a lengthy process. While this process is happening, the accountant can earn extra money as follows:
- Write coursework, diploma, and test papers in the discipline “accounting” and related economic disciplines;
- Write articles on accounting, economic, financial topics. In the future, you can even write a book on current accounting issues;
- Provide consultations on a paid basis, answer accounting questions from Internet users;
- Sell accounting software products, including through the Internet and placing affiliate links;
- Become a teacher of accounting courses: conduct seminars or even webinars for accountants.
Development prospects
Long hard work to achieve your goal does not pass without a trace. Over time, as the number of clients increases and the volume of work increases, it may be necessary to attract additional employees. This way, you will not only provide yourself with work from home, but also provide it to other people. In the future, you can start your own firm providing accounting services or become an auditor. After all, even the founders of such well-known international auditing firms as Ernst&Young and KPMG began by going into private accounting practice.
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Internet marathon "Earn money on the Internet for an accountant"
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A total of 10 webinars were held in the marathon
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 Block 1: How to make money selling custom articles, even if you don’t know how to write them yet
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Block 2: Promoting groups on accounting topics on social networks Why should accounting projects (and not only) be friends with users of social networks: promotion through Vkontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki How much can a social media administrator earn by working only 3 hours a day, even if he has three children at home? How to fill a group, how to make it useful and interesting so that you want to return to it |
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Block 3: How to expensively package and sell your knowledge - secrets of the information business How to write a book, even if you have never done it, 4 tips on where to apply written books How to conduct your first webinar and gather the hottest audience for it Why training in video format is better, how to make video courses if you don’t have any technical knowledge yet How and to whom to sell created books and video courses if you have no subscribers on the site |
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Video "Trends for making money on the Internet 2014"
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The benefits of a part-time job for an accountant are obvious. This is both additional income and versatile experience, because everywhere has its own specifics. And the more experienced an accountant is, the faster he gets the job done, which means he becomes even more in demand and highly paid in the labor market. A third of the accountants we surveyed work part-time (see Figure 1).
Finding a part-time job as an accountant is not difficult. Even a small company cannot do without this specialist. Reporting, even if “zero”, must be submitted. When making decisions, managers often rely on accounting data, and they simply feel much more confident if they are accompanied by an experienced accountant. However, not everyone can afford to support a full-time accountant: provide him with a workplace, supply him with stationery, office equipment, an accounting and legal system, and pay contributions to funds for him. Therefore, employers are increasingly interested in freelance accountants.
— From January to July, the salary offered in Moscow increased within one percent. Positive changes concern the construction industry, sales and logistics, says Maria Ignatova. — And the most noticeable negative trend is observed in accounting. The salary offered in this area has decreased from 62.1 thousand rubles to 61 thousand rubles.
Maria Ignatova,
HeadHunter Research Director
Choose the right time to look for a job
In summer there are few vacancies, but there is also less competition among applicants. By autumn, both vacancies and candidates become more numerous. Closer to the New Year holidays there is a decline again. Seize the moment when everyone is already relaxed in anticipation of a vacation, and HR specialists have not yet managed to close positions before the end of the year. The next surge of activity is in early spring, and by the May holidays and summer there is a lull again. Even seasonality will not interfere with your search if you use modern methods: a mobile application with notifications about new vacancies, automatic searches for vacancies with a fresh selection every day. This will help you be the first to send your response and receive the coveted invitation to an interview.
How many companies to run?
The income from running one company is relatively small. Therefore, many accountants manage more than four companies (Fig. 2). We asked experts how many companies need to be run in order to find a balance between financial results and labor costs and cope with all the work during the reporting period?
“Reporting on ten “empty” companies on the simplified tax system can be prepared in a couple of evenings,” says Maya Divnina. — But if we talk about companies that conduct real business activities, then even one company takes quite a lot of time. It is necessary to collect the “primary information”, reminding the manager more than once to receive documents from suppliers! Print the cash book, etc. And when everything is collected and the reports are compiled, it turns out that the taxes are too high and this needs to be discussed with the director. It is realistic to run no more than one or two such companies as a part-time job in the evenings. In an audit firm, of course, the accountant leads more firms.
“On a full-time basis, you can run from 10 to 15 small companies, in your free time - about five,” adds Svetlana Sheveleva.
*According to an online survey of 68 people
How to formalize the relationship?
The second important question is which method of cooperation to choose: informal, part-time or part-time work in an accounting firm?
Accountant at home
Despite the possible risks, the most popular type of cooperation between a customer and a freelance accountant is an informal oral agreement. Pros: no need to pay income tax, bear financial and legal responsibility - all documents are signed by the head of the company. However, if a conflict arises, it cannot be resolved officially. Experts advise against sending work by email until you are sure of the client. First, transfer reports “hand to hand.”
Part-time work
An obvious advantage of this type of cooperation is official employment. Part-time workers receive an official salary, from which the employer pays contributions to the funds; labor relations are regulated by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
Often the “main” employer is against their accountant working for someone else. However, for part-time work, the consent of the employer at the place of main work is not required, with the exception of special cases provided for by law (Article 343 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). The employer does not have the right to fire a part-time worker, apply other enforcement measures, or stipulate such conditions in the contract. But if part-time work prevents an employee from performing his duties normally, he may be dismissed under the conditions provided for by labor legislation, both from his main and additional place of work.
Part-time job at an accounting firm
In the West, accounting outsourcing has long been popular, especially among small companies. This service is also becoming more and more in demand here. Managers are beginning to understand the benefits of a “remote accountant.” There is no need to pay contributions to funds as a freelancer. The risks of being left alone with accounting and reporting are minimized if the accountant suddenly gets sick or quits, or if the computer breaks down and the data disappears.
“You can successfully work in an outsourcing company both part-time and full-time,” says Svetlana Sheveleva. — After all, the accountant himself chooses how many organizations he should manage. An employee of the accounting service department is not tied to the workplace and the daily routine of the organization. He can plan his own employment and work anywhere where there is Internet. This is suitable for women with small children who find it difficult to fit into the daily routine of a full-time accountant.
“We have sad experience of working with part-time accountants,” says Maya Divnina. “One, because of a small child, did not manage to complete more than half of the work on time, another’s computer crashed on the day of delivery... The work of an accountant is responsible and confidential, it is better to entrust it to full-time, time-tested employees.
Is the work of an in-house accountant different from working for an outsourcing company?
“Our work is divided into sections, like in the accounting departments of large corporations,” continues Maya Divnina. — This “conveyor” distribution of responsibilities allows us to serve more clients, but requires a clear organization of the process. We work in Kontur.Accounting, so I even control what is happening in the client databases from my home computer or phone.
Maya Divnina,
General Director of Financial Consulting Center LLC
Grow professionally
I recommend accountants to improve their skills and thereby increase their income. From an assistant accountant to an accountant, from an accountant to a chief accountant, from a chief accountant to an auditor or financial director. Or open your own accounting business, if you feel like it.
How to keep records easier and faster
It is important for both full-time and freelance accountants to simplify and speed up their work as much as possible. The outsourcing company also needs to work remotely and reduce service costs. We found that 42% of accountants work remotely (Figure 3). Online accounting services allow you to solve these problems. For example, Kontur.Accounting is suitable for a full-time accountant, a part-time accountant, an accounting firm, and even a director who has at least a little knowledge of accounting. And now, with the help of this service, a manager can find an accountant, and accounting firms can find clients.
*According to an online survey of 68 people
Svetlana Sheveleva,
founder and director of the company "Accounting-Online"
">Work remotely - build relationships
With the development of cloud services such as Kontur.Accounting, the circle of potential clients is significantly expanding. You can hire companies from any region of Russia for service. It is better not to start working until the contract has been signed. New clients take a lot of time, since you first need to understand the essence of their company's activities and build relationships with the director or owner of the business. Subsequently, relationships are built with clients based on trust and mutual respect. Working as an accountant remotely, you can receive a stable income comparable to the income of a full-time accountant and even exceeding it.