The complaint many small business owners have with their
accountants is that they feel they are not being listened to. While a competent
accountant knows his/her job well, they can often be a little difficult to deal
with. A small business owner is different from owners of large businesses in
the same way as novice to a pro. They are new to several aspects of business,
especially areas like bookkeeping and accounts. This is something most
accountants don’t adjust to.
The result
A good amount of such business owners despise accounting
season and dealing with the accountant. The effect is the same as that of child
who is forced to attend a class where he/she doesn’t understand the subject.
What should have been useful information is lost in sheer distaste for the
subject at hand. Ideally accounting season is the time business owners sit with
the accountant and go through various aspects of the business and look at
analyze areas where they should improve or cut costs. But this idea is made
unpleasant by the simple fact that accountants talk only in accounting
language. Such business owners wish they were better understood by their
accountants.
Small business
accountants are just what they need
The concept of Small business accounting is fairly new, a
group of London accountants called Tally accountants where among the first few
who decided to specifically cater to this market. The accountants here follow a
few policies by which small business owners are greatly benefited. For one,
they talk only in simple language, accounting jargon is strictly avoided. They
also make themselves available all the time. There are no gatekeepers and the
accountant can be reached over phone or email.
With accountants like these, small business owners needn’t
go through the ordeal they would have to go through with the regular
accountant. The service is quite affordable and convenient as well.
