When people think about accountants, they often think only of one thing: yearly tax returns. However, accounting professionals do a lot more than help you file your taxes every year; they help both individuals and businesses with numerous invaluable services and they make life much easier for their clients. Let’s face it, most of us are either uninterested or unable to work with numbers, so leaving the complicated bookkeeping and accounting work to professional accountants is easier on everyone, regardless of the size of the task.