I have been wrestling for along period with my bookkeeping and I wanted to share with you a shortcut that I uncovered after a lot of trial and error. Everyone who creates or manages their own business has ‘better’ things to do with their time than spend time on their accounting. All companies have to pay special attention to their accounting if they want to avoid disaster.

I asked my accountant for direction and he persuaded me to use Sage Software which turned out to be a small business accounting software package. Without even testing software I blindly went ahead and purchased the cheapest version I could find. Looking back I am lucky I didn’t waste too much cash on this as this package is arguably the most unusable and most complex system I have ever had the misfortune to use. To be honest whenever I discover the word accounting next to the word software I am always reminded of the first lesson I must share with you and that is the majority of small business accounting software makes the assumption the user possesses good working knowledge of bookkeeping.

Just like me small enterprise managers understand their craft and what they sell and not accounting but in my situation I was driven to devote time to finding something that would work for me. It was really worth doing this as I discovered a more useful solution than I could ever of imagined named salesorder.com.

This is possibly the easiest software I have ever used and what’s more it is web based and therefore I can use it from anywhere I choose to work. Better still and the third piece of guidance I want to tell you is that the team who work at salesorder.com are not just very knowledgeable of their system but they know a great deal about the challenges of operating a small business and have taught me the accounting I need to know.