I have been frustrated for along period with my accounting and I wanted to share with you a shortcut that I discovered after a lot of trial and error. Most individuals I know in startups want to devote their time to getting customers and selling as opposed to doing accounting. Bookkeeping is one of those arduous tasks that many people enjoy doing but must be attended to on a regular basis to avoid disaster.

I asked my bookkeeper for guidance and he convinced me I should use Sage Software which turned out to be a small business accounting software package. Without even trying out software I naively went ahead and purchased the lowest cost system I could find. This was definitely one of the worst mistakes I made as the application 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 developer isassuming you know a enough about accounting.

I had to find a solution that worked for me so reluctantly I cancelled everything in my diary and set aside quality time to find a solution. The good news is I discovered a really excellent solution, it’s an internet system known as salesorder.com.

This is definitely the easiest system I have ever found and what’s more it is net based and therefore I can access it from anywhere I choose to work. Better still and the third piece of advice I want to share with you is that the people who work at salesorder.com are not just very knowledgeable of their software but they know a great deal about the issues of operating a small business and have taught me the accounting I need to know.