Benefits of Cloud Accounting Services
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In recent years, cloud technology has revolutionised our day-to-day lives. We post our family photos to Facebook, we pay our household bills through online banking and we use our smartphones to check our email on the move.
So, if we are utilising the cloud in our everyday lives, why are we not doing the same in our business lives?
Cloud Accounting Services now offers all the functionality and reliability of your tried and trusted desktop accounting system, but with a plethora of additional benefits that only online technology can deliver.
If your business is looking for a more effective way to manage its financial affairs, here are six reasons for seriously considering a move to cloud accounting.
1. Mobile access at any time
With cloud accounting, you can access your accounts and key financial figures at anytime, from anywhere.When you use an old-fashioned, desktop-based system, you are effectively tied to the office. Your software, your data and your accounts are all sat on a local drive. And that limits the access you can have to your financial information.
2. A cost and time-effective solution
Working online reduces your IT costs and saves you time by keeping you constantly connected to the business.Desktop-based systems require an investment in IT hardware, plus the maintenance of that hardware. You require a server to house the application software and the related data. And you will need to pay an IT expert to maintain both the server and the office network – that can be an expensive overhead.
3. Watertight security and no time-consuming back-ups
When you are cloud-based, your accounts and records are all saved and backed up with military levels of encryption.
If you have used desktop accounting, you will be aware of the need to back-up your work at the end of each day. And you will also know about the need for updates each time your provider brings out a new version of the software.
4. Share and collaborate with ease
Working with colleagues, and sharing data with your advisers, is an extremely straightforward process when you’re based in the cloud.
5. Reduces paperwork and is more sustainable
Using cloud accounting can deliver the dream of having a paperless office.
With traditional accounting, dealing with paperwork, data-entry and financial admin can start to eat into your business time. Everything must be printed out and dealt with in hard copy, and this is slow, ineffective and bad for the environment.
6. Better control of your financial processes
The efficiencies of Xero’s online accounting software give you greatly improved control of your core financial processes.
Xero’s online invoicing function streamlines the whole invoice process, giving you a better view of expected income, an overview of outstanding debts and a clear breakdown of what each customer owes your business.