Bookkeeping & Payroll Services for Small Businesses

  3 Benefits of Cloud-Based Accounting Tools for Small-Business Owners Enable smart organization for a distributed workforce. Since accounting information stored in the cloud can be added or accessed anywhere, team members can quickly and easily complete their work regardless of their physical location. Whether a sales rep needs to add expense receipts or a project manager needs to check an invoice for a supplier, having cloud-based tools in place makes organizing and accessing important information as easy as taking a picture of a document or searching by vendor, amount or date. Maintain relationships and easily verify discrepancies. Relationships with vendors and distributors play an enormous role in the success of many small businesses. When a vendor or distributor questions why a bill hasn’t been paid, small-business owners that leverage cloud-based tools can quickly search for invoices. Advanced cloud tools allow team members to search by virtually any term to locate a bill an...

Any business owner will tell you that there is never enough time in the day. Prioritising key areas in the business such as clients, staff, finances, sales, marketing and general operations, can be difficult.  I often get clients asking me what the best apps for business are to make life easier when they are on the go. Technology developments in new cloud accounting software now offers a number of powerful applications to help improve time management and help ease some of the stress and workload. Here are three of the best apps for business will change your life: 1. Saving you time and money Receipt Bank is a great tool to help you track expenses and record every receipt using email or smartphone application. Scan your receipt using the Receipt Bank smartphone app and all the information of your receipt is automatically collected and transferred into Xero or Intuit QuickBooks Online. Using Receipt Bank means that you will not need to collect every receipt and no more sitting down ...

Changing any sort of process in your business can make a business owner apprehensive. But changing your entire business bookkeeping software AND moving it to the cloud. Well, that can be downright terrifying. Or can it? See, here’s the thing. Change FOR good IS good. The benefits cloud accounting will bring to your business outweigh any fear of change you may have. So what we’ve done here is articulate the most common objections or barriers we hear potential clients put to us when we discuss moving their business bookkeeping software away from a traditional desktop method and over to the cloud. THEN we’ve shared why those barriers are worth jumping over. I don’t have any time to introduce something new to the business The reason you don’t have time is because you are chasing unpaid invoices, trying to find lost receipts, talking to your bank manager about poor cash flow, completing group certificates at tax time and getting home late from work. You started your business so you could ma...

The last thing you want to have to deal with on those scorcher 35 + degree days in the kitchen is complaints from a supplier that you haven't paid their invoice on time…  Spend more time concentrating on your entrees, not expenses…  Start managing your bookkeeping in the cloud ! Here at Cornerstone we are experts in both Intuit QuickBooks and Xero which are great accounting software’s that will be a part of your recipe for success! Your Recipe for Success…  Save time and increase productivity to the cloud Moving your business to the cloud will save you time and increase productivity! We’re all guilty of seeking reviews before trying something new… so hear Michelle’s story of how Xero has given her more time to focus on making sure her customers have that unique dining experience. Have a system implemented that is easily accessible by all appropriate people  Our solutions are all cloud-based meaning that you can access them from your laptop and even your smart phone! ...

  Six Secrets That You Need To Know For Growing Your Small Business In 2021 The size of your business might be small, but your dreams are not! You will surely like to expand your business, right? So how about you plan it and structure it beforehand? Go through this article to know all the secrets to boom your business. Boost Your Customer Connection You can always give a boost to your connections with the existing customer base by selling more of their favoured stuff. It would be best if you focused on selling what is best for the customer, and for this, you can rely on their feedbacks. Another trick that you should always have on your sleeve is selling enhanced stuff to your existing customers. Follow their feedbacks and see what modifications are in demand.   Calculate Your Risks It takes a lot to expand your business. The risks are higher when it’s a small business, and some hard decisions are always on the way. It will require you to move out of your comfort zone and not d...