Online accounting is a great way to smooth the process of accounting. It takes away the friction of frequent visits to the bank or to your accountants. It lets you keep track of your cash flow, costs and profits at the drop of a hat. And it doesn’t require great blocks of paper, filling cabinet upon cabinet with fiddly paper work. Modern, online accounting is efficient, it’s convenient and it’s going to help independents stay on top of their finances.

Online Accounting is Accounting on Demand

Online accounting gives you a 24/7 connection to the financial information you need to keep your shop running. This means you can have the financial knowledge you need, when you need to make those big decisions. No more waiting for the bank or your accountant to get back to you. No more putting off important decisions until you can get your hands on the information you need about your own shop. With online accounting all this information can be quite literally at your fingertips.

This is a great way for online accounting to empower independent shopkeepers and level the playing field with big chains. Big companies can afford to have a large in-house accounting team. The reason they maintain large teams of accountants is so that they can have the knowledge they need, when they need it. This is expensive and most independents don’t have the resources for it. Online accounting is a great way to even the odds and get on-demand financial support.

And it Doesn’t Require a Small Forest of Paper

This is something that can only be appreciated after years of offline accounting. The stack of paper that can build up with accounting work is a staggering thing. Especially when you don’t have an in-house accounting team like the big chains do. It’s a lot of paper for a small team to look after and without time-consuming frequent audits you can build up a backlog of unnecessary paper work. Paper work that you can’t be sure you need, but aren’t certain you can get rid of either.

Online accounting, on the other hand, is paper free. You don’t need filing cabinet upon filing cabinet of old papers and statements, you can view it all online. It’s stored away electronically, in easy to access, easy to catalogue online storage. You’ll never lose an important piece of paper again and it’ll all be filed away for you automatically.

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