Use one system to manage your business
Accounting is for accountants and what’s frustrating is they want it to stay this way, so it’s not really suprising that individuals like me who run a small business and can’t and don’t want to afford an accountant uncovered the shortcut I want to share with you here. Everyone who creates or runs their own business has ’higher priority’ things to do with their time than spend hours on their bookkeeping. All companies have to be committed to doing their bookkeeping if they want to avoid problems.
I asked my bookkeeper for help and he convinced me I should use Sage Software which turned out to be a small business accounting software package. I just went out and bought the application without even considering if it would suit my needs. On reflection I am lucky I didn’t burn too much cash on this as this package is arguably the most badly designed and most unfriendly software I have ever had to deal with. To be honest whenever I see the word accounting next to the word software I am always reminded of the first piece of advice I want to share with you and that is just about all small business accounting software assumes the user possesses good practical knowledge of accounting.
I had to find an answer that worked for me so reluctantly I swept my diary and allocated quality time to find a solution. It was really worth doing this as I found a more fitting solution than I could ever of dreamed of named salesorder.com.
This is possibly the simplest system I have ever found and what’s more it is net based and therefore I can use it from anywhere I want to work. Better still and the third piece of advice I want to share with you is that the people who work at salesorder.com are not just very knowledgeable of their system but they know a great deal about the issues of managing a small enterprise and have taught me the bookkeeping I need to know.
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