Bookkeeping data has to be entered into a computer program one way or another so make life easy and use proper accounting software. Ditch the spreadsheets and make bookkeeping digital.
It’s easy for accountants to live inside a technology bubble at the moment. But as a business owner, do you much care about accounting technology?
Whether you're dealing with a sales ledger or a purchases ledger, before too long there will be a dispute and you're going to have to engage with the other side to make sure your records and your customer or supplier's records are the same
Our QuickBooks Online training sessions use your live data to get you where you want to be with QuickBooks. Your business is the classroom!
The technology doesn't change the essentials and there is a real danger that businesses can get so caught up in the "how", the graphs and the apps that they forget the real point of why they want the numbers in the first place.
Our view is simple - start using good accounting software as soon as you can and check that your existing software is compatible with MTD for VAT
Cloud accounting software is incredibly powerful, helpful and, once you know how, easy to use. The key point is - "once you know how".
We start by finding out what your business does, how you run it and what your metrics are that define success. Then we tailor your QuickBooks training so it supports your business model.
All of the cloud accounting software services go out of their way to make it look easy to use but it's accounting software, it contains things like VAT which you may not be an expert in.
I list all the transactions in a spreadsheet and send it to my accountants. They do what they do and send it back to me but it’s always full of errors. So I end up checking my own work and I wonder what I’m paying them for!