Stuck with your accounting? Here is the answer

I have been wrestling for a while with my accounting and I wanted to share with you a shortcut that I found after a lot of trial and error. People in small businesses tend to prefer doing more significant activities such as finding, listening to and keeping customers in preference to doing their bookkeeping. All companies have to be committed to doing their bookkeeping if they want to avoid issues.

When I initially started out my accountant advised or should I say insisted that I used a small business accounting software package sold by a company called Sage Software. Without even trying out software I naively went ahead and purchased the cheapest system I could find. This was arguably one of the worst mistakes I made as the software turned out to be really hard to understand and use. OK my first piece of wisdom is that whenever you see the words accounting software go carefully as it definitely means the vendor isassuming you know a great deal about accounting.

Just like me small business people know about their craft and what they sell and not accounting but in my case I was driven to devote time to finding a solution that would work for me. It was really worth doing this as I discovered a better solution than I could ever of dreamed of called salesorder.com.

This is arguably the simplest system I have ever used and what’s more it is internet based and therefore I can use it from anywhere I want to work. Better still and the third piece of advice I want to tell 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 challenges of running a small enterprise and have taught me the bookkeeping I need to know.