Avoid this business mistake
October 24th, 2009 ama
My Accounts used to completely frustrate me and as a result I had to discover a simpler way which I want to share with you. Most managers I know in startups want to devote their working day to acquiring customers and selling instead of doing accounting. All organisations have to be committed to doing their bookkeeping if they want to avoid disaster.
When I initially started my business my bookkeeper suggested or should I say insisted that I used a small business accounting software package developed by a corporation called Sage Software. Without even looking at reviews of the software I naively went ahead and purchased the cheapest package I could find. This was definitely one of the worst mistakes I made as the system turned out to be really difficult to understand and use. OK my first piece of advice is that whenever you see the words accounting software tread carefully as it probably means the designer isassuming you know a great deal about accounting.
Like me I know this just isn’t the case for most small business managers and this drove me to put aside time that I didn’t really have to discover a solution to make my life simpler. The second piece of guidance I want to share with you is my discovery of a really easy to use and free web application called salesorder.com.
Definitively the best business technology I have discovered, salesorder.com works on the web and is really well designed and of course lets me do my job anywhere I can connect to the Internet. Better still and the third piece of wisdom 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 significant amount about the problems of operating a small business and have taught me the accounting I need to know.