Online Accounting - What Is It And What Can It Do For You?
- Date: 2008-09-04 - Word Count: 477
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Software as a Service (Saas) is all the rage now on the internet with businesses cropping up online in various different sectors offering a wide range of products. One particular service that is making a slow but steady ascendancy is online accounting. Accounting is a human activity that has happened for thousands of years since early civilisations needed to accurately record the quantities and relative values of agricultural products, it is the essential task of tracking the finances (and one could argue the current state of health) of a business. It is also a task that has become highly specialised over the centuries, some would say expensive and non-specialists who have to do it themselves might even assert is boring. Whether you love or loath accounting however, it still needs to be done and this article will give you the lowdown on what benefits online accountancy can offer.
Online accounting services generally offer an accounting package online that can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection and a standard web browser over a secure connection so that bad guys can't read your private business information. As the service is offered online, no software of any kind is installed on your own personal computer; the accounting package and data reside on the provider's server. This means that you don't even need a particularly powerful computer to use the service as all the work is done by the provider's computer with your own computer essentially acting like a simple reader and in some cases writer for the package.
The advantages of having someone else look after the hardware and software side of things means that:
1) You don't have to worry about how much room on a computer your accounts are taking up. The service provider will give you all you need.
2) You don't have to worry about having the most up-to-date (and some would say secure) version of the accounting software. The service provider will take care of this "behind the scenes".
3) You don't have to worry about backing up your precious data. The professionals at the service provider will make sure adequate back ups of your data are kept on a more regular basis.
4) You don't have to worry about the security of the data as your information will be kept on the service providers secure servers at an undisclosed location in a protected data centre.
It is all these things that can make managing your accounts yourself (especially with small and medium business) such a time consuming job that can suck up productivity and money over the long term.
For a fixed monthly fee (and a very tight service agreement) many service providers guarantee a high level of uptime on computers that would impress someone from NASA. All you need is an entry level computer with an internet connection. How much time and money could you save with online accounting?
Online accounting services generally offer an accounting package online that can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection and a standard web browser over a secure connection so that bad guys can't read your private business information. As the service is offered online, no software of any kind is installed on your own personal computer; the accounting package and data reside on the provider's server. This means that you don't even need a particularly powerful computer to use the service as all the work is done by the provider's computer with your own computer essentially acting like a simple reader and in some cases writer for the package.
The advantages of having someone else look after the hardware and software side of things means that:
1) You don't have to worry about how much room on a computer your accounts are taking up. The service provider will give you all you need.
2) You don't have to worry about having the most up-to-date (and some would say secure) version of the accounting software. The service provider will take care of this "behind the scenes".
3) You don't have to worry about backing up your precious data. The professionals at the service provider will make sure adequate back ups of your data are kept on a more regular basis.
4) You don't have to worry about the security of the data as your information will be kept on the service providers secure servers at an undisclosed location in a protected data centre.
It is all these things that can make managing your accounts yourself (especially with small and medium business) such a time consuming job that can suck up productivity and money over the long term.
For a fixed monthly fee (and a very tight service agreement) many service providers guarantee a high level of uptime on computers that would impress someone from NASA. All you need is an entry level computer with an internet connection. How much time and money could you save with online accounting?
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