I'm a great believer in getting accountants and clients to work together for mutual growth. Alternatively, here's how to do your own brief Management Accounting exercise. Hopefully this will underline the ease and value of the process! What you need: If your accounting system is not up to date, or you don't have one, never mind, for illustrative purposes, go find the last set of accounts you can find.
Aileen Hannan
Aileen is passionate about entrepreneurs getting their heads round financial control early on in their business. Like Oprah and Tommy Hilfiger, she believes it is the true key to success. As co-owner of Aisling Software Ltd, she provides SortMyBooks online accounts software and Financial Training for self-employed people. Her background is in programming and systems analysis, and having done the corporate thing in companies like Pepsi, Canada Dry and Coors Beer in New York, and the Department of Revenue and Tax on the island paradise of Guam, and GE Money in Dublin, when she started her own small business in Killarney, the traditional methods of bookkeeping and accounting and the traditionally low expectations for financial knowledge and control for self employed people frankly drove her mad. Together with her sister Anne, they found a better way and produced SortMyBooks Accounting software for small businesses, accompanied by the all-important Financial Control Training. The company headed into the Cloud Computing arena with the launch of SortMyBooks Online Accounting in 2010. This has brought even more flexibility to the busy entrepreneur who wants to watch their business grow from anywhere in the world. Just one year on, the software won the IIA Netvisionary award and was shortlisted for the Eircom Spiders. Aileen is happy to speak at any small business event where the focus is to simplify the concepts of accounting, tax, profit and financial control in general. Give her a call!
Posts by aileenhannan:
Use ‘Business Owner Snacks’ To Make Decisions Quickly
by on November 21st, 2011
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As a business owner, I want the same treatment from my support team. Not with food 
, but with business metrics and finance info. Here's what I want to know, and when I want to know it, in bite sizes chunks, prefereably by text or email
Tax free money from your business!
by on March 11th, 2010
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This is one of the few sure fire ways to get money tax-free out of your business. Legally, I mean. Misused and misunderstood, I am setting the record straight on Director's Expenses.
Accountants: What a client wants, what a client needs
by on February 23rd, 2010
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Remember when Mel Gibson had to fall into the bath and get electrocuted to finally figure out What Women Want in the 2000 movie of the same name? I asked small business clients what advice they would give young graduating accountants, based on their individual experiences.
From PAYE to Self-Employment - Managing Income
by on November 22nd, 2009
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Transitioning from PAYE to self employment? Here's an easy way to get perspective on the financial side of things.
Head in the Clouds
by on November 18th, 2009
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You’ve probably been called 'Head in the Clouds' yourself, it is a key entrepreneurial trait. It seems we were right all along.
Hire your children!
by on November 4th, 2009
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One way to reduce your tax bill is to hire your children.
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