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The most expensive way to do payroll…through your accountant
Posted by Kristian Svindland on March 17th, 2010

I always get a chuckle out of small business owners who will not make a change to PEO or other HR outsourcing solutions because they say that their accountant does their payroll and they are the only ones they trust to do it.

News Flash: Most accountants don’t do the payroll themselves. They farm it out to a clerk in their office…or more often they have ADP or Paychex do it, then pass if off as their own work and up-charge their clients for their “expertise.”

So, instead of saving money using PEO, a small business is paying, on average, $100/hour to their account for a service that only costs $100 per employee per year to do.