Accounting is for accountants and what’s more infuriating is they want it to stay this way, so it’s hardly suprising that individuals like me who manage a small business and cannot and don’t want to afford an accountant uncovered the shortcut I want to share with you here. Most professionals I know in new businesses want to devote their time to getting customers and making sales instead of doing accounting. Accounting is a ‘chore’ that many people look forward to doing but should be done on a regular basis to avoid disaster.
I asked my accountant for guidance and he convinced me I should use Sage Software which turned out to be a small business accounting software package. Without even looking at software I simply went ahead and bought the lowest cost system I could find. This was arguably one of the worst mistakes I made as the software turned out to be really difficult to comprehend and use. To be frank whenever I find the word accounting together with the word software I am immediately reminded of the first piece of advice I want to share with you and that is most small business accounting software assumes you have a good working knowledge of bookkeeping.
Just like me small company owners know about their craft and the product or service they sell and not accounting but in my case I was driven to allocate time to finding a system that would work for me. The good news is I discovered a really good answer, it’s an online system called salesorder.com.
This is definitely the easiest software I have ever used and what’s more it is internet based and therefore I can access it from anywhere I want to work. Better still and the third piece of advice I want to tell you is that the team who work at salesorder.com are not just very knowledgeable of their application but they know a great deal about the problems of operating a small enterprise and have taught me the bookkeeping I need to know.
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