Essential For Any Business - Accounting Software

By Alan Butler

Gone are the days when you could store all your receipts, bank statements and other accounting documents in a box, and then pass them to your accountant at the end of the year. With the financial crisis affecting the majority of the world, you'll need to know exactly the state of your business finances are, and you need to know each and every day. Every day is important, because you need to react instantly to any financial problems you might be about to face.

How do you do this, what is the best way around the problems you are facing?

The easy answer is accounting software. Now you might be thinking, "I don't need any more software, I have a spreadsheet program on my computer, which will do the job." The spreadsheet programs you get with your word processor are good, but they are limited. Unless you know how to put formulae in then you will have no way of reading the data. However, with good accounting software, you will be able to read the data and know instantly the exact position of your company.

Imagine you sit at your computer, key in the data and then press a couple of buttons. Immediately the program does what it has been programmed to do, all the calculations you need. No longer do you need to wait for results; no longer do you need to be running your business blindly. If you want to stay ahead of the recession, then it is essential for your business to have accounting software.

Alan Butler is a director of A Butler and Company, chartered certified accountants, based in Derby, providing a personalised service to local business owners and individuals.

Four Software Limited, 5A Darley Abbey Mills, Darley Abbey, Derby, DE22 1DZ, Tel 01332 200 604, Fax 01332 344329, www.foursoftware.co.uk

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