Bookkeeping, Community and Scrubs Meet Louise Ball MICB, Full-Time Bookkeeper and Mum and Part-Time Vaccinator
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Iris Christofides, Social Media and Digital Marketing Executive, ICB Global Having worked at ICB for over a year, I am passionate about copywriting, graphic design, and driving ICB forward. At ICB, we’re committed to upholding the standards of the bookkeeping profession, passionate about helping businesses succeed and determined to operate for the benefit of the many not the few.
Louise Ball is a bookkeeper on the Covid frontline. The owner of Eleven Accounts Services in Stockport has been juggling her new business, home-schooling and returning to the NHS to vaccinate the public as part of the monumental drive to end the deadly spectre of Covid-19.
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fter working as a nurse for 10 years, Louise discovered her love for bookkeeping in 2018. Louise loves organisation, accuracy and being in control- everything needed to become an amazing bookkeeper! After studying
“Nursing and bookkeeping both require accuracy and documentation” Louise Ball MICB
with Ideal Schools and passing her ICB exams over the course of a year, Louise became an ICB Certified Bookkeeper. She has now risen through the ranks, gaining 15 clients in the last 12 months and is looking to expand her bookkeeping
practice despite the pressing demands on her time and her commitment to helping out in her community. Q: What is the size of your bookkeeping practice? A: It’s just me, I have 15 monthly clients at the moment. I offer a full virtual accounts department service for some of my clients. It’s very varied and I have gotten very busy in the last 12 months! This time last year I had two small clients of my own and I was also working part-time at an ICB Bookkeeping practice and then I got furloughed due to having two young children. As it became more evident that returning to work in an office wasn’t going to be feasible with the children and the uncertainty of life at the time, that’s when I started building from the two clients to the 15! Q: When did you start your bookkeeping journey? What challenges have you had to face and how have you overcome them? A: I started my bookkeeping
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