I have this week wrote many reports. Good reports take time and are short. The contain facts and can make clients uncomfortable. Since I deal in numbers my reports can contain lots of financial information. The cost to systematise a clients accounting system, write procedures and ensure they are followed depends on the client having [...]

In the good years that we have had, budgets were overlooked. Money was coming in and it was always possible to pay everyone and there was always money in the bank account. Times have changed and now I keep hearing people saying we should have done this budget last year and the year before and [...]

While the basics of bookkeeping are obeyed by accounting software, software companies that have many different versions of software for example, an entry level, mid level and high level version, add additional features to get more form the bookkeeping basics, for example, project costing and invoice printing. The software company usually ends up trying to [...]