Best Practice Checklist - Financials

Some ways to streamline your financials include:

Use Readysell cash book to balance your cash at bank figures

Use Readysell general ledger for your financial reporting

If you are using cash basis GST reporting consider moving to accrued basis GST reporting. 

Cloud Payroll with KeyPay allows your employees to print their own reports and group certificates

Batch email sale invoices to customers at the end of each day

Batch email statements at end of month

Your customers know how to reprint their own invoices and statements from a website

Bank reconciliation automatically matched against the bank

Supplier payments automatically generated and transmitted to the bank Via ABA file

Weekly automatic email to customers with overdue accounts

Financials can inform you about current business issues

Aged debtors position once a week

Aged supplier balances. Compare your supplier to debtor balances to see if money coming in from customers will be sufficient go cover payments to suppliers

Profit and loss report. In particular look at trends in revenue and expenses. 

Cash at bank

Save time with financials formatting

Some accountants like to see brackets around exceptions. For example if your car loan is normally a credit, showing you owe money on your loan. Show loan's value in a bracket if the net value of the loan becomes a debit. This would mean the bank would owe you money in respect to the car loan. This is an exception so it would be shown in brackets

Some accountants just like to see all credits in brackets. 

See: http://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/use-of-parentheses

Financials can only work for you if your bookkeeper has the necessary skill and training

Well trained in Readysell financials. Unless they are properly trained bookkeepers tend to develop bad habits and may not use the system as well as possible

If possible trained in bookkeeping. 

A detail person who completes all tasks in a timely and organised manner. Financial errors or delays cost you money, perhaps a lot of money

Using profit and loss reports to track revenue and expenses. Don't wait to end of year, by then any damage is already done. Ensure your book keeper informs you about any important trends

Aware of your business information requirements. At least once a month they should report to you on accounts that are overdue, debtors vs. supplier balances, your cash position

Reporting to you when they notice exceptions that you should be considering

Make some effort to keep you with changes in tax and financial reporting requirements

Suggesting ways you can improve your financial and business processes.