Today, we all use accounting software. It is sure, there is lots of mistakes which are done in the accounting software either by accountants or companies who made this software. So, by learning its list, you have to aware, what are these accounting software mistakes and how can you save from these mistakes.
This is the first accounting software mistake which are done in accounting departments. When accounting department completes his voucher entries in accounting software, they feel safe.
Few years ago, I had obtained a query from a computer programmer who is developing a special accounting software for a company. He is getting my advice relating to process of any special accounting function. I suggested. So, he developed same. Now, same software is working by whole company. If I am not professional in accounting area, my wrong suggestion will make wrong accounting software and no one can save from this mistake even there is CA who will record in same default accounting software. My main aim of teaching that you should not hire any person who is not professional of accounting. It means not to go cheap accountants but get quality service from great accounting professionals.
Time to time, accounting software companies updates their accounting software. You just switch to its upgrade version. But you are lazy or you do not want to invest more money in its upgrade version but it increases your cost because when you will use not upgraded accounting software, there is more chance it may be corrupted or showing errors during accounting record.
In this world, everything is changing fastly. So, due to changing of business system, accounting softwares are also changing fastly. If your business has to run fast and catch all the changes, it has to accept all changes in accounting system as challenge. As businessperson, you should give training to your accounting department employees. If you are saving your money by not providing training relating to latest in accounting software, it is your big mistake because untrained employee will do more mistake if you update the accounting software but did not manage the training relating to such updates.
Related : Biggest Accounting Mistakes
NOT BACK-UPS
This is the first accounting software mistake which are done in accounting departments. When accounting department completes his voucher entries in accounting software, they feel safe.
- This is the mistake because all accounting software has the system and which is done by some codes which knows the computer programmer. So, it may be crashed. It may be delete your all database in one second. At that time, you will pay big fees to computer programmer for restore his database because there are lots of useful accounting information in your database.
- There are lots of natural disaster which may destruct your all accounting software data. For example, in India, previous year, we see big flood in Uttrakhand and this year, we see big flood in Jammu and Kashmir. So, if you have the branch in this area and you did not back-up your accounting software data, you will unable to restore it from your other branches or from cloud.
So, better is make the good time table of back-ups of your accounting software database. You can back up daily, weekly or monthly as per the quantity of data entry.
NOT PROFESSIONALS
Few years ago, I had obtained a query from a computer programmer who is developing a special accounting software for a company. He is getting my advice relating to process of any special accounting function. I suggested. So, he developed same. Now, same software is working by whole company. If I am not professional in accounting area, my wrong suggestion will make wrong accounting software and no one can save from this mistake even there is CA who will record in same default accounting software. My main aim of teaching that you should not hire any person who is not professional of accounting. It means not to go cheap accountants but get quality service from great accounting professionals.
NOT UPGRADE
Time to time, accounting software companies updates their accounting software. You just switch to its upgrade version. But you are lazy or you do not want to invest more money in its upgrade version but it increases your cost because when you will use not upgraded accounting software, there is more chance it may be corrupted or showing errors during accounting record.
NOT TRAINING
In this world, everything is changing fastly. So, due to changing of business system, accounting softwares are also changing fastly. If your business has to run fast and catch all the changes, it has to accept all changes in accounting system as challenge. As businessperson, you should give training to your accounting department employees. If you are saving your money by not providing training relating to latest in accounting software, it is your big mistake because untrained employee will do more mistake if you update the accounting software but did not manage the training relating to such updates.
Related : Biggest Accounting Mistakes
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