Wednesday 14 September 2016

Confessions of a Bookkeeper: Do you really need me?

When I first started out in this game, I was entering information to ledger cards and sending coded transactions to a data agency for input.  Then the company purchased their very own PC with a 20MB hard drive!  Our insanely expensive software was installed by an expert and we were sent to lengthy training sessions to master this newfangled thing.

Leap forward 25 odd years and all our Accounting can be done in the "cloud" with a laptop computer or a mobile device in the palm of our hand almost anywhere in the world.  As with many other industries, technology has completely changed the way we do business.