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Is your accounting software helping – or hindering you?

Is your accounting software helping – or hindering you?

According to a recent survey, 47% of SME’s are not happy with their accounting software – with most saying they find accounting software too hard to use. But what can you as a business owner really do about that – isn’t accounting software a “necessary evil?”

No, says Michael Fresnel, the Principal, NZ Accounting – because his low-cost process where his firm handles all the bookwork for his clients makes it easy for business owners.

Called SAFE-TCS, the NZ Accounting method is simple, accurate, fast and priced to suit every business’ budget.

“A few years ago I took the time to listen to my clients and found out that SME’s hate accounting software and don’t like all that data entry. And they want to pay an accountant to make decisions and take responsibility for the outcome.

“Based on that research I developed SAFE-TCS over a number of years and migrated my client base from expensive complicated software solutions that don’t work well to a simple low-cost process that suits most New Zealand SME’s.”

The beauty of the SAFE-TCS process is that because NZ Accounting do all the data entry, the chances of an IRD audit turning up any problems is greatly reduced.

And new clients are often surprised at decisions they have been making sometimes for years that exposes them to IRD compliance risk if audited, says Fresnel.

“Our clients aren’t accountants – they know what they’re good at and they leave the book keeping, tax compliance and accounting to us – we make the call on the way information is handled.”

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