Beck - PAY someone. This job is too important (and too stressful) to get it wrong.

I'd do the course at the same time, so you can maybe get the hang of it as you go along.
I paid a bookeeper even with a tiny one-woman business and it was WORTH EVERY PENNY.

You don't want to make a mistake that might cost you heaps more than $25 an hour xoxoxoxo