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Cloud Accounting Offers Protection Against Fraud
One of the biggest myths about cloud accounting services is that they offer no fraud protection. You may even have heard some claims that outsourcing cloud accounting services puts your company in greater jeopardy of fraud than it would normally be exposed to. The truth is, there’s far more fraud protection offered by third party [...]
Change is Bad, Cloud Accounting is Risky, and Other Lies About Outsourcing Business Accounting Needs
Sometimes, common sense and what we believe don’t go hand in hand. For example, if we put our logical brains to work we’ll eventually arrive at the conclusion that achieving rock solid computer security compliance is impossible if we don’t enlist the help of experts. It makes perfect sense. But on the flipside of that [...]
How a Simple Power Outage Could Spell Doom (and Other Reasons to Outsource Your Accounting)
Random acts of bad luck don’t discriminate. It’s happened time and time again, and is probably happening right this moment to some unfortunate small business owner: a catastrophic loss of hard drive data. Consider what would happen to your company if suddenly all of the business accounting information you had stored on your computers were [...]
Myths and Misconceptions About Cloud Accounting
There are more benefits to cloud accounting than there are drawbacks, but would it surprise you to learn that the vast majority of business owners and company decision makers are hesitant to embrace the idea of outsourcing accounting services because of preconceived notions? What would you say if we were to tell you that those [...]
Business News Daily Ranks Outsourced Accounting in Top 45 Best Business Ideas of 2011
2011 was the year of the cloud, and if all indications are accurate, 2012 will be no different. Recently, Business News Daily ranked outsourced professional bookkeeping as the number 22 best new business idea for aspiring entrepreneurs. With this kind of high profile validation, professional bookkeepers the nation over will surely gravitate to offering more [...]
The Top Myths About Cloud Accounting
There’s a lot of myth surrounding cloud accounting, and it’s causing many business owners to think twice before outsourcing their bookkeeping needs. Unfortunately, most of the myths that are being propagated about it are based on mistaken assumptions and plain old fashioned skepticism – and the end result is keeping business owners from finding the [...]
Some More Benefits of Outsourcing Your Bookkeeping
You’ve probably already read plenty about the vast and varied benefits of outsourcing bookkeeping to a third party specialty firm. If you haven’t already jumped in with both feet, this article is for you. Not convinced that business bookkeeping services are the right way to go? Here are a few more benefits you may not [...]
Keeping It On Home Soil: The Risks of Offshoring Your Accounting Needs and Why You Should Choose a Bookkeeping Service in the United States
Some people think outsourcing is a dirty word, but there’s an even dirtier one: offshoring. Yes, there’s a difference. A huge one, in fact. Offshoring is the act of moving a job out of the country. Outsourcing is the act of relegating certain aspects of your business to another company. Whether you choose a company [...]
Easing Your Way Into Virtual Bookkeeping Services
Are you considering hiring a virtual bookkeeping service, but haven’t yet taken the plunge because you’re used to doing things the “traditional” way by keeping all of your accounting practices in-house? Are you worried that handing over control of your company’s accounting will leave you open to losing vital information that could cost you dearly? [...]
Watch Your Mouth! Why Outsourcing Isn’t a Bad Word
A lot of people would just as soon offend their own mother than utter the word “offshoring” in a professional capacity. Whether that’s a questionable thing or an honorable thing really depends on the relationship that individual has with the one who gave them birth. Regardless, offshoring should never, ever be confused with yet another [...]
