Cloud accounting is certainly trending at the moment with many new entrants as well as the PC stalwarts all offering software solutions in the ether. You may be keen to try the cloud, you may also be confused, so how do you see through the fog?
Cloud accounting is certainly trending at the moment with many new entrants as well as the PC stalwarts all offering software solutions in the ether. You may be keen to try the cloud, you may also be confused, so how do you see through the fog?
Many businesses have several IT systems in use which produce data that is required in the accounts, but too many businesses are re-keying the data, wasting money and creating avoidable errors in the process.
It turns out that at the moment you can’t migrate data from QuickBooks PC applications to their cloud application.
We have a client that wanted to use QuickBooks Essentials – an online version of QuickBooks – which would give access to their accounting software to two of their users and us.
We’ve seen two small, owner-managed businesses in the space of a week that have questions about their bookkeeping requirements and in both cases we’re concluding that using Excel is the simplest solution.
Coming at us all full-speed, like an unstoppable train are more cloud-based accounting packages than you can shake a stick at. It’s challenging. It’s disruptive. And it should be beneficial, but where are we at the moment?