Do you even need Accounting Software ?

I would love to say that none of us really need to burden ourselves with any type of bookkeeping software. If you can get away with not having to use accounting software, then that's got to be the perfect choice.

The saddest thing of all is that for the majority of subcontractors, contractors and small businesses we eventually find ourselves using some type of software, even if its main purpose is for invoices.

So we purchase software in a hope of spending only a few minutes inputting income and expenses, as well as issuing those lovely invoices. In sad reality the majority of the software on today's market forces us to spend more time in front of our pc's, and those precise few minutes turn into many hours of wasted anguish.

There is a small group of individuals working a set contracted hourly rate that seem to find themselves able to do without such software. This group usually tucks their receipts away in a shoe box for the year and only pulls it out come tax time. For them it's awesome as they can earn great money, and reap the rewards of being able to write off some taxable income due to their shoe box full of receipts and spent no more than a few hours once a year adding them up.

However in this fast changing world if the majority of us did this it could become very dangerous for our financial situations. The question comes back to this, How can we account for our income and expenses without the software being such a pain in the arse ?

What System of Accounting, or Bookkeeping Program should you choose?

Obviously over the centuries the traditional way to keep accounts was to use a set of paper books, which worked fine for the businesses at that time. But with computers there now seems to be no need to have to play with calculators and pen and paper. The computer system should be able to perform these basic tasks in a flash and keep you up to date.

With Small Business and Subcontractors having to account for more and more in todays changing world, its seems almost necessary to have a simple system to carry out all these tasks. I am sure that there are many great programs on the market that allow this to be done in a simple and tidy fashion, but I do know that there are many that are just pure rubbish.

They do nothing but irritate and annoy the crap out of a good many people. I feel personally that many companies are now so full of their own importance that they fail to deliver what the little guy really wants, maybe its because they are out of touch with reality.

The number one most important aspect which everyone needs to ask ourselves when testing any accounting software is this, Does this software save me time?, If you can enter your income and expenses into a paper set of books faster than entering into the software, then something is wrong...

Obviously there are some other things that pc's can do faster than most of us, such as producing reports. You need to be able to obtain basic reports easily an quickly. Do you really need 30 different reports that give you graphs and present the same information over an over. For the majority of contractors, subcontractors and home businesses, its easy to tell if we are making any money, all we have to do is go to the local ATM and get a bank balance.

We suggest you download and trail several programs before setting your mind on just one, they are not all the same, some really suck and waste your time.

Accounting Software also needs to be simple and easy to use, if not, then what is it good for ?

Tax Gst Accounting Software

We are the first to admit that our software won't do all the things that other software does, but that’s because we deliberately designed it that way.

We focused only on what was required by MOST of the average small businesses and subcontractors. If you want fancy stuff like inventory control and software that can twist all the figures around to perform another 20 different reports, and record your bank account details and provide bank balances and all the other mindless items that are found in other software on todays market, then maybe TaxGst is not the software for you.

But if you do need Software to perform things like inventory control, then you should take your time and look around for the best software that suits your needs. We strongly suggest that you shop around, spend the time to trail three or four different applications for at lease a week each. It may seem like a waste of time and a huge effort but in the long term it could save you hundreds of hours.

The last thing you need in your life is to be stuck with a program that causes you to perform 8 different tasks just to get on simple result when another could have achieved it in 1 or 2 steps. If you think I am being overly critical, have a look out there and you will see what I mean.

Bookkeeping and Accounting Software

Bookkeeping should always be easy

What is so different about TaxGst ?

We found no useful ideas from any existing software on todays market, so we had to start from scratch and spend time in the field talking with the girls and guys who were using software to see what they really wanted.

If you need software that can record with ease all your general business items like, income, expenses, sales tax, invoicing etc then we may be able to help.

We don’t take accounts to Trial Balance or all that rubbish. We also don't want to you to keep a record of your money in the bank, it makes no sense at all, as we discovered most small businesses and subcontractors know if they are making money by simply getting an account balance from an automatic terminal at the local shopping center.

In the end all most people want is a simple profit and loss sheet which tells them at the click of a button what the bottom line is.

Whilst TaxGst was developed in our minds for Small Businesses and Subcontractors, we now have a global client base including a number of medium level businesses who are using this software as part of their business needs.

The majority of small businesses and subcontractors are mum and dad businesses or individual owners (sole traders), who really only want to account for the sales tax and report a profit or loss, and to keep records of income and expenses for tax purposes

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Bookkeeping that Small Business and Subcontractors can understand

Basic Accounting without all the Bullshit