Another business mistake avoided
My experience is accounting is really unnecessarily complex but after wrestling with my bookkeeping problems for a while I uncovered a really useful shortcut that I wanted to share with you. Most people I know in new businesses want to devote their time to acquiring customers and making sales instead of doing bookkeeping. All organisations have to pay special attention to their bookkeeping if they want to avoid problems.
When I first started out my bookkeeper advised or should I say insisted that I used a small business accounting software package developed by an outfit called Sage Software. I immediately went out and bought the package without even contemplating if it would suit my needs. This was definitely one of the biggest mistakes I made as the system turned out to be really difficult to comprehend and use. OK my first piece of wisdom is that whenever you see the words accounting software go carefully as it probably means the designer isassuming you understand a substantial amount about accounting.
Just like me small company people know about their craft and the product or service they sell and not accounting but in my situation I was driven to devote time to finding something that would work for me. It was really worth doing this as I found a more functional solution than I could ever of dreamed of named salesorder.com.
This is definitively 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 wisdom I want to tell you is that the team who work at salesorder.com are not just very knowledgeable of their system but they know a great deal about the challenges of managing a small enterprise and have taught me the bookkeeping I need to know.