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Cloud Accounting Offers Protection Against Fraud

May 14th, 2012 by Accounting Department

One of the biggest myths about cloud accounting services is that they offer no fraud protection. You may even have heard some claims that outsourcing cloud accounting services puts your company in greater jeopardy of fraud than it would normally be exposed to. The truth is, there’s far more fraud protection offered by third party [...]

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Change is Bad, Cloud Accounting is Risky, and Other Lies About Outsourcing Business Accounting Needs

May 10th, 2012 by Accounting Department

Sometimes, common sense and what we believe don’t go hand in hand. For example, if we put our logical brains to work we’ll eventually arrive at the conclusion that achieving rock solid computer security compliance is impossible if we don’t enlist the help of experts. It makes perfect sense. But on the flipside of that [...]

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How a Simple Power Outage Could Spell Doom (and Other Reasons to Outsource Your Accounting)

May 3rd, 2012 by Accounting Department

Random acts of bad luck don’t discriminate. It’s happened time and time again, and is probably happening right this moment to some unfortunate small business owner: a catastrophic loss of hard drive data. Consider what would happen to your company if suddenly all of the business accounting information you had stored on your computers were [...]

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Myths and Misconceptions About Cloud Accounting

April 30th, 2012 by Accounting Department

There are more benefits to cloud accounting than there are drawbacks, but would it surprise you to learn that the vast majority of business owners and company decision makers are hesitant to embrace the idea of outsourcing accounting services because of preconceived notions? What would you say if we were to tell you that those [...]

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Business News Daily Ranks Outsourced Accounting in Top 45 Best Business Ideas of 2011

April 25th, 2012 by Accounting Department

2011 was the year of the cloud, and if all indications are accurate, 2012 will be no different. Recently, Business News Daily ranked outsourced professional bookkeeping as the number 22 best new business idea for aspiring entrepreneurs. With this kind of high profile validation, professional bookkeepers the nation over will surely gravitate to offering more [...]

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