Timesheets shouldn't cause this much agony
Dennis reports on a survey from the business software company Sage that talks about client needs and what accountants perceive themselves as, among other things.
I don't have much to say about that directly, but it reminds me of something loosely related.
There is a completely insane exercise still practiced around the world: the manual transfer of online timesheets from one computer system to the accounting system. And by "manual", I mean by hand.
What. The. Hell.
I want to know why there are no patches being offered up to automate the mundane process. Is if the fault of the online timesheet system, or of the accounting software? Or is the middleman interfering?
Many small businesses use Quickbooks or Simply Accounting. How hard would it be to connect them to the various online timesheet systems?
Or am I raging at a minor phenomenon? Do most clever companies already link the two systems together? If so, I wonder why I've been exposed to the Wrong method of doing things.