No company money would ever be sitting in bitcoin for more than the few seconds it would take to transfer. I know why you think this, but it is based on incorr

No company money would ever be sitting in bitcoin for more than the few seconds it would take to transfer. I know why you think this, but it is based on incorrect premises, namely that your expectations for quality of service from professional financial services firms apply equally to the Bitcoin "economy." Consider, for example, the case where you ask your freelancer "What is the invoice in BTC?" and he quotes you "100 BTC". You go attempt to buy Bitcoins at the spot price of ~$100 each. You see a message saying "Your order has been placed, but to protect our customers, we are going to take the liberty of manually reviewing it." The following day, the order is canceled and the spot price of Bitcoins is now $140. You are now effectively short BTC, which is unfortunate, because you're losing. There are other failure modes. They can be catastrophically expensive. As both a buyer and seller of consulting services, the notion that you're worried about a ~3% charge to transfer money to settle up a freelancing engagement is valuable signal with regards to the general level of business acumen being brought to bear on this decision. So, as somebody who wants both you and your freelancers to have happy, successful lives: bringing BTC into the picture brings in large extrinsic risks of project failure, when doing business with freelancers is already fraught with many risks. I would suggest avoiding it. Regarding accounting issues: I wouldn't expect any but if your accountant is like my accountant I'd expect you to run up a few hundred dollars in fees prior to him being comfortable signing off on there being no accounting issues here.