If you have not already recognised the importance of the digital age or embraced it across your business, you are likely to be throwing time, money, and effort down the drain every day.
Now; more than ever, data is the key driver of digital technology such as modern financial software, and done properly, data is your new MD. It puts you in charge of your business. Here’s why.
The old days
You remember those days of not-so-distant-past, don’t you?
When a Simplex D book was the core part of any set of financial statements and without it, you’d be lost.
And then there were the old spreadsheets. Remember how they’d get passed from computer to computer, each person making their own amendments without anyone controlling a centralised version of it? When it came to making a report, the copies would be stitched together until you got something that ‘looked right’.
It took teams of people, with teams of people helping them, all under the watchful eye of the finance director.
Expensive stuff.
You’ll be glad to hear that’s a long-gone thing of the past. Digital accountancy software makes the job of a full finance team and finance director much more effective by doing many things better than a human team ever could.
By design, the software keeps everything organised and in one place. It is simple to use for anyone, and data can automatically update itself. Teams of people can work on an account at once without worrying about deleting or duplicating data.
You can use the software to pull reports in an instant that would take finance teams weeks, saving you time, money, and effort.
Three reasons why the right software, and the right accountant, is now all you need.
1) Data Input
Sick of logging expenses? With our accountancy software, all you need to do is take a photo of a receipt with your smartphone and within seconds it can be sent and logged for you.
Plus, we can link your bank account with the software. This way, the two systems communicate with one another and update themselves: making reconciliation a cinch (no references to Rylan from the TV advert intended here).
You can access everything you need on the go and raise invoices whenever you need. Suppliers can email the software, cutting out time usually spent emailing back and forth and logging everything manually.
And that’s what’s available right now. The world of accountancy software is moving at a fast pace and new ways to save time, effort, and money are being developed every day.
2) Basic Reporting
The data you need, at your fingertips, from any location.
What can you use this data for?
- Analyse performance: Compare financial figures over whatever period you consider relevant and manipulate reporting with ease to fit your needs
- Know your customers: Track, segment and provide real time information and insights to make sure you look after your most valuable customers and chase debt from those that are outstanding
- Keep on top of suppliers: Manage supplier relationships and establish payment reports to aid cashflow
Finally, you can take control of your business and get a clear, overall view of what’s going on in the best way possible: the numbers.
Any information you need is readily available to you. The answers to your questions answered, instantly, meaning you can confidently and effectively get on with your job.
3) Advanced Reporting
We can build you a bespoke dashboard of key features within your financial software to give you the information you need to make the right decisions.
For example, by setting up your software to tell you when a customer’s credit rating changes, or when an internal target is missed you get automated updates that require little time to maintain. You get the results and information you want and need to hear so you can prioritise the actions that make the biggest difference.
Our world is a smaller place than ever, and we are all competing with one another globally in some shape or form. With digital financial software, it doesn’t have to be. Technology is accessible and affordable for all business needs and can help create a level playing field like never before.
If it’s that easy, where does an accountant come in?
The implementation, training, and overseeing of this technology is one area in which your accountant can support you. They are seasoned users and partner with suppliers to help you identify the most effective way to implement.
With online collaboration, your accountant can also see what you can see at any time which makes real time advice more effective. They get a seamless accountant view so that financial management, reporting and compliance-based services can be run whenever needed (without even seeing each other!).
Best of all they provide the advice and direction that helps ensure you are building the right reporting, identifying the right performance measures, creating the most efficient processes, and keeping you compliant at all times. They have a wealth of knowledge about what does and doesn’t work from across other clients, so you be confident about what works and doesn’t work.
You need to focus your energy in the places that will give you the best return.
Give your business the best chance of success. Get in touch today to get started.
