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Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

Posted May 12, 2012 10:25 UTC (Sat) by yoe (subscriber, #25743)
Parent article: Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

I run a small business too. My solution to this problem is simple: text files, email software, and a very good accountant.

Yes, that probably means we pay them a little more for data entry. But I'd rather pay an accountant whom I trust a little something more than that I'd pay some money to a piece of software that might have this kind of sillyness in it.

Let the accountant deal with that.


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Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

Posted May 30, 2012 9:45 UTC (Wed) by cthart (guest, #4457) [Link]

I went down the same route: I created a shared folder in a DropBox account and gave my accountant full access to that.

* I scan all received documents (the ones that don't already come electronically as PDF).

* Periodically I export my bank statement from my online banking.

My accountant's hourly rate is less than mine so I let her do all the work -- including submissions to the tax office.

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