Cloud accounting is the tectonic shift in the accounting world.
We help businesses make effective use of the cloud accounting solutions out there and collaborate with them to ensure their entire financial environment is working properly.
There’s a lot of hype about the cloud and cloud accounting and several different ways of enabling cloud technology in your business.
We use two of them!
Good bookkeeping is the bedrock of every successful business. As you can see from our illustration, bookkeeping is at the centre of every aspect of your financial management and you let it lapse at your peril. However, we see too many businesses where the bookkeeping is not done well enough…
Digital disruption : Digital opportunity We have a report we produce every quarter that tells us useful information about the previous twelve months. We’ve been producing the report each quarter for the last five or six years and every time we run it we learn important lessons about our business…
But the essence is that if you want get the benefits of working in the cloud you are not limited to having to use cloud accounting software. Instead you can continue to use the software you like and which works for your business. – See more at: https://bluedotconsulting.co.uk/blog/?p=2942&preview=true#sthash.QlS4ulFg.dpuf
Cloud software is improving and it has the big marketing money and product investment going in to it but despite that, our view is that the best of the cloud accounting software for small business users is still not as good as the desktop equivalents.
There’s nothing like playing with live ammunition so our training uses your company data. During our QuickBooks training we ensure that everything from data entry to management reporting is set up just right for your business.
Outsourced accounting has been with us for many years, at all levels from the freelance bookkeeper to the interim Finance Director. No change there, but technology is making outsourced accounting much easier to buy and to deliver.
Our business has now switched to remote working in the cloud.
Up until now we have been using a traditional client-server model in an office but going forward we will do all of our work in a hosted environment from anywhere.
Working in the cloud is the third stage of a project that has seen us move to a paperless environment and migrate our email, diaries etc. to Office 365. But what does it all mean for a business in the 21st century?
Twice this month we did some work with businesses that are beginning to use accounting software for the first time. Both had developed a series of spreadsheets for their accounting which they had long-since outgrown.
That is not all they have in common – astonishingly they are both £1 million turnover organisations!
Good for both of them that they have started to use accounting software but why leave it so late?
These changes will mean we require less space and this will mitigate the increased cost, but the ironic thing is that the more flexible you make the working environment and the less dependent you are on large pieces of office space, the easier it is to expand!
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I stopped doing my books when I realised I was making them worse! - Cloud accounting software is incredibly powerful, helpful and, once you know how, easy to use. The key point is -… 
