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Online Accounting Gives You The Real Time Financial Info You Need To Survive In A Recession

By: Lucy Whittington

Small businesses need real time financial information to cope with the financial crisis. Online accounting provides it.

With the world financial system facing crisis, if you're not getting real time financial information from an online accounting system there's never been a better time to start.

While not everybody likes poring over spreadsheets and processing financial paperwork, most business owners would find it hard to disagree with the value of being on top of the big picture. What's coming in. What's going out. What's profitable. What's not. In difficult trading times this kind of information is essential.

The good news is that it's possible to get this kind of overview of your business, without changing your personality or hiring in extra accounting support. All you need is the right web-based accounting system. Xero online accounting software is designed to be as easy to use as a computer game, while still having the power to prepare end-of-year financials.

Kisky Netmedia's Katie Lips freely admits that in the past she actively avoided engaging with the financial aspects of running her business and didn't always have a clear picture of where the company was at financially. That changed when her colleagues initiated a change to Xero's web-based accounting system.

"Using Xero has made some aspects of our business black and white," she says. "You can see all the time which clients and projects are making you money and which aren't. This type of information is invaluable in helping to focus us and our efforts on an ongoing basis. Because Xero makes it easy to understand our business performance we can get better with little effort."

Even better, the online accounting system has made getting on top of the numbers easy, and almost fun.

"The design really makes sense from a usability perspective and makes it clear for me where to look for information and then when I find it, it is presented in a way I can understand. All the 'headline' data is there for me to see easily, which is quite often all I want to know."

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Xero's web-based accounting system is easy for business owners to use while still providing enough detail for accountants. By shifting to online accounting, businesses create a single set of up-to-date accounts and business information accessible from any web browser. To learn more about moving to Xero online accounting system visit www.xero.com .

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