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  Working closer is easier than you think April 2003  

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Time and Distance Eliminated

It's the REAL QuickBooks!

Web-delivered, but not browser-based

Does Your Website DELIVER Business?

Marketplace

Past Issues of Practice Development News



Time and Distance Eliminated

The problem is in providing services that are valuable to the client in a way that makes it profitable for the provider. The solution is outsourced accounting online, or e-Accounting. e-Accounting gives your practice, and your clients, the tools and resources you need to increase business opportunity and profitability. e- Accounting solutions help you increase your profitability at the same time you increase your level or range of service to your clients. e-Accounting solutions let you work from anywhere at any time. e-Accounting gives you and your client the freedom to focus on your core business and capabilities.

e-Accounting is about working online with your clients and with your team members. Reduce or eliminate your requirement for sophisticated technology solutions, and give everyone the ease-of-use and security of server- based computing. Centralize and manage your applications, protect your data resources, and streamline your business processes. Increase your capacity to do business, and your profitability, simply by making your current model much more efficient and effective.

e-Accounting is about increasing your opportunity and value. Through the use of outsourcers, you can increase or expand the services you offer your clients. Make your business the key to your clients' business success. Working online, you and your outsourcers can work closer than ever before, and YOU deliver the value to your client.

e-Accounting is about improving the profitability of your practice. The movement of informatoin from one place to another, the restructuring of information from one form to another... these are processes that represent the cost and inefficiency in your business. e- Accounting help reduce or eliminate redundant, time consuming work that is the bane of your practice. Bookkeeping, property tax compliance work, HR and benefits administration... these are key areas where outsourcing may make the most sense for your practice. Do you offer these services to your clients? Profitably? e-Accounting can help you, and your client, receive the valuable services required by your business while increasing the bottom line for you both.

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The accounting and tax busy season is almost over, and it is now time to be thinking in terms of your summer business-building strategy. Gearing up for next season means developing the core business your firm needs NOW, while you have the time and the energy.

In this month's issue of Practice Development News, we look at some of the building blocks that make up the foundation of the successful online accounting practice. You can't build a house without first building a solid foundation. e-Accounting helps you build a foundation that can support sustained growth while keeping customer service at the highest possible levels.

  • It's the REAL QuickBooks!
  •    Almost daily we are asked who are competitors are. As far as e-Accounting goes... there aren't competitors, just potential partners. The philosophy is e-Accounting TOTAL solutions. Choice is key, but consistency is just as important.

    In order to help remove the barriers between "doing business the old way" and "doing business online", we recognize that many companies must take baby steps to get there from here. Working with accounting online falls into the same category of change, where baby steps are required.

  • Web-delivered, but not browser-based
  •   Rarely do we see a mature, functional organization take one whopping jump from brick and mortar business to Internet-based everything. Moving to an online working arrangement doesn't have to represent a radical change in applications or processes. Certainly, introcing new efficiencies that simply come with the platform will be part of the immediate change, but there is no reason to create a requirement to retrain personnel or convert data. Introduce your client, and your own team members, to a way of computing that just makes things better and not incredibly different. Once the initial adoption has occurred and you're working on the Internet, then you can gently introduce alternative applications and processes that take even more advantage of this new working environment.

    By serving the business software that your clients are already using, such as QuickBooks Pro, e-Accounting is able to give you and your clients the best of both worlds. We deliver the actual Windows desktop application over the Internet. It is exactly the same application that you already know how to use on your own computer. With e-Accounting, you simply connect to your "virtual computer" through the Internet, using only a browser. The desktop application that is launched is the familiar QuickBooks Pro applications, and the data files in use are the native QuickBooks data files. There is no conversion required, and all the functionality and performance of the QB application is translated directly to this environment. And, unlike many of the Web-based accounting systems available today, you can easily backup ALL of your data from the hossted system, giving you and your client the peace of mind that you can retrieve the data you put in, even if your Internet service becomes unavailable.

    Running QuickBooks online...

  • Does Your Website DELIVER Business?
  •    Most professional service firms view their business Website as the equivalent of an online brochure. This is a great way to tell visitors about your firm and what you have to offer, but it has little value unless you actually have visitors to your Website. And once they get to your site, do you have what it takes to keep them coming back for more? You need dynamic, informative content on your site that helps identify areas where you can be best used. Your firm is the trusted advisor to your clients. Help them to better understand when and how to leverage your expertise and experience with personal and business financial issues.

    Personal Life Events, Business Strategies, Tax Strategies, Investment Strategies - these are areas where situations and events may impact the personal or business financial health of your client. Providing information about these situations helps your clients better manage their financial resources, and introduces questions and scenarios that get them thinking. In turn, this type of activity helps drive more business to your practice.

    Much more than a brochure... it's business development!

  • Marketplace
  •    Link to online license purchasing for QuickBooks or ACT! Obtain access to Web-based tools and services. Get discounts on check stock and printing solutions.

    Marketplace... purchase licenses, supplies and more!

  • Past Issues of Practice Development News
  •    Read the March 2003 edition... how outsourced accounting can be a practice-development tool for your business, and why e-Accounting is ENABLING THE OUTSOURCE MODEL.

    Read the February 2003 edition... how e-Accounting technologies and services help you work closer with your clients and outsourcers in a more secure, efficient environment. e-Accounting... OUTSOURCE OPTIONS.

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