At a regional/top 20 firm and we have a bookkeeping service department that is terrible. Journal entries are completely wrong and not just wrong for tax purposes but really wrong. Basics like disposal of an asset, investment tracking, etc. We charge these clients thousands of dollars to do their books and then we spend hours on tax prep undoing what bookkeeping did and redoing it correctly. Then tax side gets chewed out for how much time is in the code. Is this normal?

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Had the same experience in a couple of public accounting firms I’ve worked at. I’ve spoken to the management about it, they just shrugged and said that “they are just bookkeepers, mainly responsible for data entries, we as the tax professionals/CPAs, are supposed to check and correct the books.”

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